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Direct User Repository
Access (DURA)
RSP EVENT - Increasing the full-text
deposits in your institutional repository
London, June 2012
Increase deposit...
... by making it easy to deposit in the institutional
repository as a by-product of other research tasks...
(i) as you manage your references in Mendeley
(ii) as you claim your articles in Symplectic
Basic configuration
• Mendeley client syncs with Mendeley server
• Mendeley server connects with institution Symplectic
instance.
• Symplectic connects to repository with Repository Tools
Roles
• Mendeley and Symplectic develop software
• University of Cambridge tests software and deploys to
live DSpace instance, then promotes to academics
Proof of concept
Where are we now?
• Dec 2011 Symplectic and Mendeley declared technical completion
[Jun 2011]
• But at Cambridge staffing issues meant nobody was available to
deploy and test the repository tools connector
• Eventually the service was reorganised in October 2012 and
responsibility transferred to the Library
• New staff appointed in January 2013, but focus on migrating a
heavily customised DSpace 1.6 to OOTB 3.1
• Oh wait! Symplectic Repository Tools doesn't work with DSpace 3.x
(now fixed)
But that's not all
• In July 2012 the Finch report comes out
• As part of the transition work, Cambridge commissions
user research on ‘getting published’
• Validates original problem - lack of institutional touch
points in 'getting published' process
• But the new RCUK policy creates a new touch point as
publishers urge authors to apply for APC funding from
institutional block grant
And an Open Access HEFCE policy is coming...
• It is plausible that full text deposit will become a
requirement of the REF
• DSpace 3.1 should go live any day now
• We will deploy the connectors, but not yet clear how we
will promote them - most likely as labour saving route to
compliance