Depot for international OA

The Depot repository service has been transformed into a facility to support the Open Access agenda internationally.

The Depot is an assured gateway to make research output Open Access, by providing two main services:

a deposit service for researchers worldwide without an institutional repository in which to deposit their papers, articles, and book chapters (e-prints)
a re-direct service that alerts depositors to more appropriate local services if they exist

The first time a researcher visits the Depot, the service automatically checks with OpenDOAR, the registry for open-access repositories, to find a more appropriate local repository. If none exists then the author will be invited to deposit their research in the Depot. The Depot is OAI-compliant, allowing deposited e-prints to be harvested by search engines and other repositories, giving them instant global visibility.

For the present the Depot can still be found at http://www.depot.edina.ac.uk/, but working with eIFL-OA (the Electronic Information for Libraries – Open Access) programme, EDINA hopes to provide a more international URL to denote its new role.

If you are a researcher/author wishing to make papers, articles, and book chapters (e-prints) available under self-deposit (Green) open access, or if your role is to support researchers with these aims, then please pass on the simple message:

"Put it in the Depot" at http://www.depot.edina.ac.uk/