Repositories
- Kent Academic Repository - http://kar.kent.ac.uk/
- Software used: EPrints
- Contact: Dr Nicola Cooper N.M.Cooper@kent.ac.uk
Staffing
- Managerial WTE: 0.5
- Administrative WTE: 1.0
- Technical WTE: 0.2
- Total WTE: 1.7
- Number of individual staff that work on repository whole or part time: 6
- 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: Partially - Unmediated self-deposit but with quality control by staff.
- Accept metadata records or full-text only: Also accept metadata only records
- Percentage full-text: 14%
- Currently have institutional policy / mandate: No
- Currently have preservation policy for repository: In development
- Content types included in repository:
Research articles, Datasets, Conference papers, Books, Multimedia (images, video, sound), Software, Theses, Unpublished works
- Quality assurance policy for research content: We accept peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed materials
- Currently have e-theses deposit policy: In development (for September 2013)
- E-theses policy is opt-out (i.e. the thesis will be made OA unless the student requests an exception):
Institutional context
- Department with lead responsibility for repository: Library Collections (which administer KAR) are part of Information Services, which is an IT/Library department.''
- Integration / plan for integration with research management systems: Under investigation
- Commercial CRIS system: No
- Which one?:
- Bids for external funding: No
- More about the repository: