The Depot
Duration
August 2006 - November 2009
Summary
Put it in the Depot
The Depot is a service that enables all UK researchers to deposit their academic papers and other outputs under terms of Open Access, including those whose institution does not yet have a repository. The Depot is a service that enables all UK researchers to deposit their academic papers and other outputs under terms of Open Access.
The Depot is provided as a national facility to support the policies of UK universities and national funding agencies towards Open Access, aiding policy development in advance of a comprehensive institutional repository network.
The Depot offers the following features, it:
- accepts published papers from researchers at institutions that don't currently have an institutional repository. The principal target is articles that have been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication. These articles are called post-prints
- redirects users to the correct institutional repository where one already exists
- supports the transfer of relevant content to help populate new institutional repositories when they are established. Institutions will be notified when deposits are made
- conforms to institutional repository standards so that Intute: Repository Search and other search engines and services can locate and use the contents of The Depot
Project Deliverables
The Depot is being managed as a service at EDINA. If you have an enquiry please contact the EDINA helpdesk.
The scoping phase of the Depot was known as the Prospero project (January-July, 2006) and produced a prototype and scoping report.
EDINA Contacts
Theo Andrew, Project Manager
Partnerships
Funders
JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme
Links
Contact us at: edina@ed.ac.uk
EDINA, Causewayside House
160 Causewayside, Edinburgh
United Kingdom EH9 1PR
EDINA is the Jisc-designated national data centre at the University of Edinburgh.
