Prospero

Providing a Repository for Open-access Subject-Presented Eprints Online

Aims

The principal purpose is to provide an open access repository for researchers, serving in particular those authors at institutions that do not presently have digital repositories for research papers. At present, 16 major research-led UK universities are known to support institutional repositories (IRs) for their academics. More are at the planning stage. There are estimated to be in excess of 100 UK institutions without IRs. The principal content of the Prospero repository will be full-text research papers (preprints and postprints).

Hence the aim of Prospero is to meet JISC objectives by delivering:

• an online repository to support deposit of research papers
• subject-based open access to its contents
• inter-working & inter-operability with extant & emerging institutional repositories
• a tool to support policies of JISC for open access
• advocacy for open access repositories
• a risk register and exit strategy

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Last modified: 8 June 2006