RSP past events
The Repositories Support Project (RSP) ran from November 2006 – 31 July 2013. During that time the RSP ran 50 face-to-face events; 7 residential schools and 43 one-day events. Over 1,506 delegates attended events, from 257 different organizations. The RSP hosted 16 webinars for 1,017 delegates, 270 of which were international. A large proportion of the international delegates were from the USA, Ireland, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal and Mexico. Delegates also attended online webinars from Argentina, South Africa, Canada, Nigeria, Italy, Germany and other locations. The RSP conducted 94 consultancy visits. You can see a list of the past events below, and you can access where available the accompanying PowerPoint presentations, videos, and photo galleries.
Delegate Map
RSP has been active in supporting the development of the national infrastructure. This map shows the insitutions who have had a representative at an RSP event. We are very pleased that it reflects the national spread of HE institutions.
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Increasing the full-text deposits in your institutional repository
12th June 2013, 10:00, Charing Cross Hotel, London
**Registration for this event is now closed.** This one day event is aimed at those working in research repositories and higher education libraries but may be of interest to a wider audience including researchers. The event will focus on three main topics:(a) implementation of self-archiving in institutional repositories, (b) deposit tools, and (c) depositing workflow.
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The Repository Junction Broker: a tool to automate delivery of research output to institutional repositories
29th May 2013, 15:00, Online
In this free RSP webinar, Muriel Mewissen (University of Edinburgh) will present the JISC-funded project Repository Junction Broker (RJBroker). More particularly she will discuss details on what the broker does and how it works, the Europe PMC trial, and what IRs need to do to receive data from the broker.
This webinar may be of interest to librarians and repository managers.
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Implementing open access funders' policies
23rd May 2013, 09:30, Goodenough College, London
*This event is fully booked*
This one-day event will focus on the major funders’ policies and reports, such as the Finch report, and the RCUK and Wellcome Trust policies. You will learn everything you need to know about policies’ compliance terms, their revisions and creative commons licenses. Furthermore, the issues concerning evaluation of research outputs, such as the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and the future of institutional repositories will be widely addressed.
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Institutional Repository Usage Statistics, IRUS-UK
20th March 2013, 15:00, Online
* This webinar is fully booked. The recorded session will be posted at the RSP website [http://www.rsp.ac.uk/help/publications/#webinars]
In this free RSP webinar, Paul Needham (Cranfield University) will present the JISC-funded project Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS-UK), and more particularly he will discuss details on standards, policy development and initiatives concerning statistics for institutional repositories.
This webinar may be of interest to librarians and repository managers.
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Engage with SWORD to allow deposit transactions
8th March 2013, 11:30, Online
In this free RSP webinar, Stuart Lewis (Edinburgh University) and Richard Jones (Cottage Labs) will present the JISC-funded project “SWORD” (Simple Web Service Offering Repository Content), and more particularly they will discuss ways to deposit content from one location to another.
This webinar may be of interest to librarians and repository managers.
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Statistics for repositories: DSpace and EPrints
26th February 2013, 11:00, Online
* This webinar is fully booked. The recorded session will be posted at the RSP website [http://www.rsp.ac.uk/help/publications/#webinars]
In this free RSP webinar Claire Knowles (University of Edinburgh), Nick Dimmock (Northampton University) and Katie Evans (University of Bath) will discuss issues on Statistics for DSpace and EPrints repositories, and more particularly in relation to Google Analytics and IRStats.
This webinar may be of interest to librarians and repository managers.
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OER for research repositories managers
29th January 2013, 11:00, Online
In this free RSP webinar, Nick Sheppard (Leeds Met Repository Development Officer) and Laura Skilton (Learning and Teaching Coordinator and Jorum Business Development Manager), will discuss issues on Open Educational Resources (OERs), their collections and the role of the institutional repositories.
This webinar may be of interest to librarians and repository managers.
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Supporting and enhancing your repository
21st January 2013, 10:00, BCS- The Chartered Institute for IT The Davidson Building 5 Southampton Street London WC2E 7HA
A UK RepositoryNet+ and RSP workshop
* This is a past event - read the blog post related to this event.
**This event is fully booked. If you would like to reserve a place email Nancy Pontika [nancy.pontika@nottingham.ac.uk] with your name and email address and she will contact you in case of a cancellation. **
UK RepositoryNet+ is a JISC funded activity which is building coherence across a number of repository shared services to provide efficiencies and effectiveness for institutional repository requirements and workflows.
Aims and objectives of this workshop:
● present a suite of shared services to the repository community and the new ways in which these can provide added vImplementing strategies to encourage deposit
16th January 2013, 15:30, Online
In this free RSP webinar, Rebecca Kennison, Director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University (USA), will present examples on how to encourage deposits for the institutional repository and how advocacy for deposits can be implemented among the academics.
This webinar may be of interest to librarians and repository managers.
Impact metrics for repositories
12th December 2012, 11:00, Online
In this free RSP webinar, Mark MacGillivray, PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh and founder of the Cottage Labs, will present why repositories’ metrics are useful and which type of metrics can be collected. Mark will give a brief introduction on the technical developments on repositories’ metrics and will present some examples from his current work.
This webinar may be of interest to librarians and repository managers.
Increasing the full-text deposits in your institutional repository 12th June 2013, 10:00,
Charing Cross Hotel, LondonThe Repository Junction Broker: a tool to automate delivery of research output to institutional repositories 29th May 2013, 15:00,
OnlineImplementing open access funders' policies 23rd May 2013, 09:30,
Goodenough College, LondonInstitutional Repository Usage Statistics, IRUS-UK 20th March 2013, 15:00,
OnlineEngage with SWORD to allow deposit transactions 8th March 2013, 11:30,
OnlineStatistics for repositories: DSpace and EPrints 26th February 2013, 11:00,
OnlineOER for research repositories managers 29th January 2013, 11:00,
OnlineSupporting and enhancing your repository 21st January 2013, 10:00,
BCS- The Chartered Institute for IT The Davidson Building 5 Southampton Street London WC2E 7HAImplementing strategies to encourage deposit 16th January 2013, 15:30,
OnlineImpact metrics for repositories 12th December 2012, 11:00,
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