An Institutional Repository Model for the Humanities

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An Institutional Repository Model for the
Humanities Targeting Academic Research for
Deposit and Disclosure http//tardis.eprints.org

• http//eprints.soton.ac.uk
• Creating a broad IR model
• Supporting ease of use for depositors of
  different backgrounds
• Refining software offering assisted deposit,
  good citation metadata
• Creating visibility tools for researchers

A Multi-disciplinary Institutional Repository
(IR) Route Map to Open Access to Research

• Developing a repository for all disciplines
• House of Commons report recommends IRs July 2004
• The TARDis Route
• Building on current practices and user
  requirements
• Publications database with full text where
  practicable
• Core requirement one input many outputs
• Developing added value services e.g.
• Book covers
• Links to Amazon
• Supplementary material

Back to the future with TARDis The Open Access
Revolution via the Southampton University
Research Repository An e-Prints service informed
by user needs and good information management
practice Feeding into generic EPrints software
Mark Brown Jessie Hey Natasha Lucas Pauline
Simpson eprints_at_soton.ac.uk
Presented at
DRH
2004
Tim Brody, Lesley Carr, Jessie Hey
Pete Hancock