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University of Edinburgh

Repositories

• Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) - http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/

• Software used: DSpace
• Contact: rps-help@ed.ac.uk

Staffing

• Managerial WTE: 0.2
• Administrative WTE: 0.6
• Technical WTE: 0.2
• Total WTE: 1
• Number of individual staff that work on repository whole or part time: 3
• Core repository team or staff distributed throughout different departments: Some are located in other departments
• Membership to UKCoRR:Some staff are members

Policies

• Level of mediated deposit: Level varies according to department. 1. fully - all e-theses are fully mediated by cataloguing staff 2. partially - some departments add own records, which are checked by repo staff 3. fully - most departments are fully mediated
• Accept metadata records or full-text only: Full text only
• Percentage full-text: 100%
• Currently have institutional policy / mandate: Yes. Research publications policy: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/policies-and-regulations/research-publications
• Currently have preservation policy for repository: Yes http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/research-support/publish-research/research-publications/rps-policies/rps-preservation
• Content types included in repository: Research articles, Conference papers, Books, Theses, Unpublished works
• Quality assurance policy for research content: We accept peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed materials. Must be produced by University of Edinburgh staff
• Currently have e-theses deposit policy: Yes. http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/research-support/publish-research/research-publications/how-to-deposit-theses
• E-theses policy is opt-out (i.e. the thesis will be made OA unless the student requests an exception): Yes

Institutional context

• Department with lead responsibility for repository: Library
• Integration / plan for integration with research management systems: Partially - in the process of implementing this
• Commercial CRIS system:
• Which one?:
• Bids for external funding: Yes
• More about the repository: We also have a Data repository - http://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/