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

SHERPA

Funders

JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme

Links

JISC RepositoryNet