Expanding Content - Planning Checklist

The planning checklists to be found in each key section of the RSP web site are offered as a series of key questions designed to ‘make you think'. Please note that we have not crowded presentation by trying to offer answers to the questions, many of which may be local or specific to each institution.

In this section about expanding content you have set up your repository but want to tap into ways of getting more content into it. Here are the questions to ask yourself:

Have you identified existing stores of publications within your institution? Local sources of content (often in house publications are ideal) can be used to help kick start the population of your institutional repository.
Have you identified potential early adopters, change agents and key departments to reach out to?
Have you set up systems for obtaining statistics from your institutional repository? Statistics can be used to make a use case to encourage people to add content.
Have you formulated an advocacy campaign?
Have you considered running a launch event for your repository?
Have you made sure that users of the institutional repository can tap into advice, guidance and support through multiple channels?
Have you identified opportunities to train users in the use of the institutional repository?
Have you taken all the available opportunities to advertise and promote the repository to your community of users?