The University of North Carolina's library and open access publisher BioMed Central have announced a collaboration as a result of which nearly 800 journal articles by UNC researchers will now enjoy greater visibility.

Every time BioMed Central publishes an article by a UNC affiliate, the article loads automatically to the Library's Carolina Digital Repository (CDR). The CDR compiles, safeguards, and provides access to the research of UNC faculty and students.

Republishing in the CDR provides an extra layer of security. It also allows the CDR to capture and share a more extensive picture of research activities at UNC, and to capitalise on the Library's investments in open access publishing.

In addition to full text of the articles, BioMed Central shares documents related to the articles, such as surveys, pamphlets, and data sets. The CDR preserves these items along with the articles in a growing collection that already contains more than 2,000 items. The automatic transfer takes place behind the scenes using a technology called Simple Web-Service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD).

Pearson, a US-based provider of educational content and services, has announced that institutions are choosing the EQUELLA digital repository to easily identify, manage and provide shared access to high quality course content that enhances the learning experience for students, improves outcomes and helps to support accreditation requirements.

It has been observed that with the influx of numerous types of educational content - from premium content to freely available Open Educational Resources (OER) and user generated materials - institutions are often burdened by the process of storing, tagging, retrieving, and sharing learning assets. This results in assets being lost, misplaced or underutilised. To address this challenge, institutions are partnering with Pearson and choosing the EQUELLA digital repository.

Content stored within EQUELLA - which now features the EQUELLA Content Exchange, new to version 6, offering free access to an extensive collection of OER materials - serves more than three million educators and students in North America. EQUELLA, like Pearson's Project Blue Sky, announced earlier this week, furthers Pearson's commitment to helping educators to quickly identify and choose from a wide selection of high quality OER material.

EQUELLA educational partners include Palm Beach Atlantic University, University of Utah, North Carolina Community College System and University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its participation in SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), a new model for open access publishing. Key SCOAP3 principles are perpetual open access, wide re-use licenses, and reduction and re-direction of subscription fees to centrally cover for article processing charges in journals carrying SCOAP3 content, with no charges to authors.

Under SCOAP3 two well-established Elsevier journals - Physics Letters B and Nuclear Physics B - will change from a subscription based model into an open access model by the start of 2014. Both journals are fully focused on publications from the High Energy Physics field. Articles funded by SCOAP3 will be available open access in perpetuity, under a CC-BY license.

Acting for the benefit of SCOAP3, CERN conducted the tendering. This open and competitive procedure took into account the quality of journals (as measured by Impact Factor), the quality of services provided (as measured by re-use licenses and delivery formats) and the unit price for publishing each article.

Pearson, a US-based provider of educational content and services, announced the upcoming release of Equella 5.2 (QA 2) the latest version of its digital repository that enables users to search, create and manage content online. The release introduces advanced integration capabilities with Moodle 2.3, the latest version of the learning management system. Moodle is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites.

The enhanced Equella and Moodle integration enables instructors within the Moodle community to select Equella content and populate it into their course without ever leaving the Moodle application.

It is projected to lead to other enhancements also. These include a simplified search functionality that retains previous searches for ease-of-use, and the extension of the filtering and sorting capabilities within the file picker, which are now shown in drop-down menus within the same page view. Other enhancements include direct access to the repository’s media content including streaming media, SCORM and IMS packages, zipped web pages, and other complex learning objects from within Moodle.

The integration is additionally expected to offer a new way of referencing internal and external content in Moodle, similar to an “alias� or a “shortcut� on traditional operating systems; and the introduction of bulk update, which enables a single piece of content to appear in multiple places throughout Moodle courses.

The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has announced that its historical journal archive has been made permanently free to access online. Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available.

The Royal Society claims to be the world's oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appearing in 1665. Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton's first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin's celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment. And nestling amongst these illustrious papers, readers willing to delve a little deeper into the archive may find some undiscovered gems from the dawn of the scientific revolution - including accounts of monstrous calves, grisly tales of students being struck by lightning, and early experiments on to how to cool drinks 'without the Help of Snow, Ice, Haile, Wind or Niter, and That at Any Time of the Year.'

The move is being made as part of the Royal Society's ongoing commitment to open access in scientific publishing. Opening of the archive is being timed to coincide with Open Access Week, and also comes soon after the Royal Society announced its first ever fully open access journal, Open Biology.

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Education services provider Pearson, US, has released EQUELLA 5.1, the latest version of the digital repository that enables users to search, create and manage content online. The announcement was made at EDUCAUSE 2011, the annual conference of the world's leaders in education technology.

EQUELLA provides a central solution to meet an institution's learning, research, media and library needs. Faculty, instructional designers and academic technologists can easily search in one location for all of their learning content - video, custom eBooks, presentations, lecture captures and more - all tagged by metadata such as learning outcomes, grade level and relevant keywords. EQUELLA places no restriction on the content type or file size, and all content is protected using the repository's permissions, digital rights management and copyright functionality.

EQUELLA 5.1 enhancements include ability to edit and update Microsoft Office-formatted content within the repository; support for storage and searching of QTI 1.2+ assessment objects; enriched notification and configuration options to create and manage workflows; seamless content integration through Flickr and YouTube; enhanced integrations with Pearson LearningStudio and Fronter; and ability to publish content from within EQUELLA directly to LMS platforms (currently Pearson LearningStudio, Moodle and Blackboard).

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Representatives of university libraries recently met with representatives of the German SCOAP3 partners - TIB, Max-Planck-Society und Helmholtz Association - for a workshop at TIB in Hannover. The international consortium SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) seeks to convert high quality High Energy Physics (HEP) journals to Open Access journals of the golden road.

At the Workshop a report was given about the progress of the project at the national and international level. During a first meeting of the international partners in April it was decided to have the concept implemented by January 1, 2013. Shortly, the market survey will be published and the international tender procedure will formally begin after a period of intense preparation.

An important topic of the workshop was the presentation and discussion of a calculation model which will serve to distribute the costs among the German universities and other institutions after the implementation of the consortium.

TIB coordinates the implementation for universities and other institutions in Germany. This also comprises the development of a business model for German universities and other institutions.

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Education and education technology services provider Pearson, US, has announced EQUELLA 5, the latest version of the company's digital repository that enables users to search, create and manage content online.

EQUELLA provides one central solution to meet an institution's learning, research, media and library content needs. Faculty, instructional designers and academic technologists can easily search in one location for all of their learning content-video, custom eBooks, presentations, lecture captures and more - all tagged by metadata such as learning outcomes, grade level and relevant keywords. EQUELLA places no restriction on the content type or file size, and all content is protected using the repository's permissions, digital rights management and copyright functionality.

EQUELLA 5 includes new features such as updated user interface that improves overall usability; new dashboard capabilities, allowing users to customise the solution to suit their needs; and ability to access and import resources from external repositories. Additionally, built-in Harvester enhancements allow users to easily schedule content harvests from third-party sources, including other EQUELLA repositories, and directly harvest the metadata, content and resources. Addition of portlets provides access to different key functionality based on user preference.

EQUELLA works with all popular learning management systems, including Pearson LearningStudio and Fronter, as well as library systems, portals and other solutions.

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The Pacific University College of Health Professions faculty has passed a resolution in support of making its scholarly work freely available online. The non-binding resolution, patterned after a resolution adopted by the University of Washington Faculty Senate, is said to be one of the first passed specifically by a school or college of health professions in the US.

Following the resolution, the Pacific University Library hopes to see an increase in the number of faculty members contributing work (particularly published articles) to CommonKnowledge, the University's open online repository of faculty and student work. Faculty members' ability to contribute their articles is dependent on the policies of the journals in which they publish.

The push for open access to scholarly literature has been largely a response to the rising costs (and corresponding limited availability) of journal literature for the average consumer. By encouraging faculty members to work with journals and publishers to retain their right to share their published articles openly online, access to the literature is seen to be greatly increased.

While increasing access to journal literature is vital across all disciplines, there is a special need for more equitable access for health professionals, it has been observed. By providing free access to their scholarship, College of Health Professions faculty members expect to help medical practitioners get the best available evidence for clinical decision-making.

In addition to sharing published articles through CommonKnowledge, many College of Health Professions faculty members contribute other forms of scholarly work, from research posters to conference presentations to materials from inter-professional case conferences. Student work - theses, dissertations, graduate projects and critically appraised topics - from the School of Occupational Therapy, School of Physician Assistant Studies and School of Professional Psychology are also currently made available through CommonKnowledge.

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The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and Berkeley Electronic Press will host an event titled 'IR Tailgate' on March 30, 2011. The one-day session will examine the challenges and opportunities of implementing and sustaining an institutional repository before the ACRL 2011 meeting in Philadelphia. It will continue conversations begun at the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting in November 2010 and explore issues specific to ensuring the success of the campus repository.

Featured speakers include Paul Royster, Coordinator for Scholarly Communication, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Marisa Ramirez, Digital Repository Librarian and Library Liaison to Campus Administration, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication and Special Initiatives Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Heather Leary, Institutional Repository and Digital Imaging Coordinator, Utah State University.

Registration is free, but space is limited. Interested parties should register by March 24.

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The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released summaries, slides, and video from the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting, jointly hosted by SPARC, SPARC Japan/NII, and SPARC Europe, in Baltimore on November 8-9, 2010.

The SPARC digital repositories meetings have played an integral part in advancing the potential of open online repositories to expand the dissemination of scholarship and transform scholarly communication. First held in 2004, the meeting is regularly hosted in the UK or Europe, Japan, and North America, draws hundreds of participants from around the globe, and has helped set the stage for key developments over the past six years. This time, participants indicated the need for a broader meeting and discussion, which highlight repositories in the full Open Access context.

The 2010 meeting set forth to explore four key trends - repository-based publishing strategies, global repository networks, open data, and making the case for financial sustainability. These panel discussions were supplemented with an Innovation Fair, where new technologies, strategies, and approaches were highlighted, and a Sponsor Showcase.

Summaries, plus slides and selected video, are currently available through the SPARC website at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/dr10.

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The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that marketing, partnerships, small-scale subject repositories, customer service, multidimensional image data, curation micro-services, and liberating folklore journals are some of the topics that will be tackled in the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting Innovation Fair. SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, is hosting the next installment of this meeting on November 8-9, 2010, at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Innovation Fair is a highlight to the conference where new technologies and strategies are showcased in engaging, informative, rapid-fire presentations by librarians, technologists, and publishers. The Fair invites short presentations of innovative or creative approaches to use of repository content, discovery of research outputs, value-added services, and repository promotion. This year, twenty-one presenters were identified through a rigorous and competitive selection process led by the meeting program committee.

The SPARC digital repositories meetings have played an integral part in advancing the potential of repositories to expand the dissemination of scholarship and transform scholarly communication. First held in 2004, the meetings are regularly hosted in the UK or Europe, Japan, and North America. These meetings draw hundreds of participants from around the globe, and set the stage for key developments over the past six years.

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The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that leaders, innovators, and practitioners from North America, Europe, and Asia will test new frontiers in online open archives at the 2010 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. The international gathering, organised by SPARC in cooperation with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, will be held November 8-9, 2010, with pre- and post-conference events scheduled for November 7 and 10.

Organised by the Program Committee, four timely discussion tracks - Repository-based publishing services: Strategies for success (or failure), Open data, Global repository networks and Making the case for financial sustainability - will bring together speakers with far-reaching experience. The meeting's four programme tracks will be complemented by a host of other engaging event opportunities. These include user group sessions with ePrints, Microsoft and @mire; The SPARC Meeting Innovation Fair, where new technologies, strategies, and approaches will be highlighted; Vendor Showcase, where select sponsors will introduce latest products and services; and workshop on institution-based Open Access modeling.

The SPARC digital repositories meetings have played an integral part in advancing the potential of repositories to expand the dissemination of scholarship and transform scholarly communication. First held in 2004, the meetings are regularly hosted in the UK or Europe, Japan, and North America. These meetings draw hundreds of participants from around the globe, and set the stage for key developments over the past six years.

The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010 is supported by major contributions from Microsoft, the University of Alberta, Digital Commons (by Berkeley Electronic Press), Open Repository (by BioMed Central) and by supporting organisations, including the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Boston Library Consortium, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, Data Conversion Laboratory, Duraspace, Greater Western Library Alliance, Nellco, NorthEast Research Libraries consortium, Oracle, and SURFfoundation.

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Library cooperative OCLC has announced that repository managers from libraries, museums, archives and other cultural heritage and research institutions can now contribute metadata records for digital materials to WorldCat using the enhanced WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway. The tool is projected to increase the visibility and accessibility of special collections, institutional repositories and other digital content to web searchers worldwide.

In July 2009, OCLC had introduced the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway to users of OCLC CONTENT Digital Collection Management software. Based on the OAI protocol, the Gateway enabled CONTENT users to upload the metadata of their digital collections to WorldCat. Recent enhancements to the Gateway now make it possible for any OAI-compliant repository to contribute metadata to WorldCat to gain broader visibility for their digital content.

The enhanced WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway is freely available to institutions interested in increasing the visibility of their digital content through WorldCat. Visibility is increased through WorldCat.org, a web destination for discovery of collections, and also through partnerships with Google, Yahoo! and a growing library developer network.

Designed for self-service use, the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway is a web-based tool that enables repository managers to customise how their metadata displays in WorldCat.org and determine their metadata harvesting schedule - monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually. Additionally, it applies their institution's "holdings symbol" to their records, thereby highlighting the unique information resources their institution is contributing to WorldCat.

There are more than 25 million metadata records for digital items currently accessible through WorldCat.org, most of which were contributed as part of OAIster, a union catalogue of records representing open archive resources from around the world. The number of digital records in WorldCat and their use is stated to be growing. Since 2006, there have been more than 600 million visits to WorldCat.org and more than 36 million click-throughs to libraries. With WorldCat.org, users are said to be only three clicks away from an institution's digital content.

To date, more than a half million metadata records have been entered into WorldCat through the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway. A record for a thesis titled 'The Implementation and Impact of Data Mining', from Taiwan's National Chengchi University's library, marks the 500,000th record entered into WorldCat using the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway. The University's library staff is harvesting the metadata from its theses and dissertations collections and its institutional repository into WorldCat to help increase the visibility of their collections worldwide.

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Michael Nielsen, a quantum computation professional, and Dr. George Strawn, Director of the National Coordination Office for the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) programme, will deliver keynotes at the Fall 2010 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. The international gathering, organised by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) in cooperation with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, will take place on November 8-9, 2010.

The two speakers are to discuss how open online archives hosted by universities, colleges and government agencies can contribute to the full realisation of the potential of networked digital technology for advancing research and scholarship. Nielsen, author of Reinventing Discovery (Princeton UP, 2011), will kick off the meeting with a talk about the future of science and the potential benefits of greater openness for transforming scholarly communication, increasing collaboration and advancing research.

Strawn will deliver a luncheon keynote address and share his view from the NITRD perspective on the promises and possibilities of a networked science environment. He will cover developing trends and suggest actions the open access community can take to ensure that access and use of digital information is maximised.

Joining the keynoters will be panelists from around the world, who will look at four key trends identified by the programme committee for deeper exploration. These include repository-based publishing services: strategies for success (or failure); open data; global repository networks; and making the case for financial sustainability. Speakers will be announced in September.

Programme tracks will be supplemented with an Innovation Fair, where new technologies, strategies and approaches will be highlighted. Vendor showcases and user group sessions will be held.

The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010 is supported by contributions from Microsoft, the University of Alberta, Digital Commons (by Berkeley Electronic Press), Open Repository (by BioMed Central) and by supporting organisations, including the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Boston Library Consortium, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, Data Conversion Laboratory, Greater Western Library Alliance, North Eastern Research Libraries, Oracle and SURFfoundation.

Early bird registration closes on September 12. Proposals to the Innovation Fair are due on August 15.

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Doctoral candidates at the University of Western Ontario have a new option for submitting theses and dissertations for examination that will make their research available to scholars worldwide. Beginning August 1, 2010, the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Project allows Western's PhD candidates to submit their work electronically through its digital library repository, Scholarship@Western.

A joint project of the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and Western Libraries, the initiative is expected to give Western ETDs priority in many search engines, enabling scholars worldwide to access the research. Previously, theses and dissertations were submitted in hard copy, a process that was time consuming and didn't guarantee the information would be available electronically.

According to Library and Archives Canada, the increase in citation impact that results from electronic publishing ranges from 50-250 percent and leads to increased rewards from universities and granting agencies. Additionally, it helps raise the profile of research institutions and brings research to market almost immediately.

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The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) EPrints repository of research publications is now one of the top ten in the world, according to the official world ranking of institutional repositories.

Southampton ECS EPrints is ranked number 10 in the world, just behind MIT and the combined campuses of the University of California. The University of Southampton's university-wide EPrints repository (excluding ECS) is ranked number 27 and University College London's repository is ranked number 79 - the only three repositories in the UK to rank in the top 100. There are 80 UK institutions in the top 800 institutional repositories. The rankings are based principally on the number of links into the repository from external websites, demonstrating the impact of an institution's research on the rest of the Web.

The aim of the global ranking is to support Open Access initiatives which provide free access to scientific publications in an electronic form. The University of Southampton institution-wide mandate was introduced in 2008. The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton claims to be a world-leader in the technology and design of open access repositories as well as in the design of institutional open access policy.

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The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, has announced the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010, to be held November 8-9, 2010, at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

The SPARC digital repositories meetings have played an integral part in advancing the potential of repositories to expand the dissemination of scholarship and transform scholarly communication. First held in 2004, the meetings are regularly hosted in the UK or Europe, Japan, and North America. These meetings draw hundreds of participants from around the globe, and set the stage for key developments over the past six years.

The North American meeting is a unique forum for diverse stakeholders - librarians, technologists, research producers, research funders, publishers and commercial interests - to come together and consider how best to leverage the practices and policies that have proven successful and explore new challenges. The meeting is also a key venue for librarians, the leading advocates for repositories, to share and refine strategies to engage stakeholders across campus.

As repositories expand as core components of the world's fast-evolving digital infrastructure, four key trends have been identified by the programme committee for deeper exploration at the meeting. These are: Repository-based publishing strategies; Global repository networks; Open data; Making the case for financial sustainability. These tracks will be supplemented with an Innovation Fair, where new technologies, strategies, and approaches will be highlighted.

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Yale University Library has announced that it is celebrating its 150th anniversary as a depository for US federal government documents. John Woodruff, US Representative from Connecticut, designated Yale College a repository for public documents in 1859 and the records of the second session of the 35th Congress of the US were sent to New Haven in July, 1860.

Over the succeeding fifteen decades, Yale has continued to build its collection of federal government documents by participating in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), administered by the US Government Printing Office. The FDLP provides government documents at no cost to designated depository libraries across the country and in American territories, as well as to selected libraries overseas. In turn, these libraries provide free public access to their depository collections.

The Library is marking this anniversary year with a major accomplishment - the cataloging of the entire federal depository collection in Orbis, the Library’s online catalogue. Until now, only documents from 1976 onwards have been catalogued. Much of the collection was accessible only through complicated print indexes.

All items in the depository collection, which number nearly a half-million volumes, can now be found in the online catalogue. Yale will also share these online records with other libraries so that they can identify and catalogue items in their own collections. Senior essays based on research done in the federal depository collection are also eligible for consideration for the Harvey M. Applebaum '59 Award, which has been given since 2008.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries. The deal is to develop an automated system that uses the latest technology to automatically populate MIT's digital repository, DSpace@MIT, with the official version of articles by MIT researchers that have been published in BioMed Central's journals.

In order to make it easier for MIT authors to submit articles to DSpace@MIT, the MIT Libraries worked with BioMed Central to set up an automatic feed of MIT articles, using a version of the Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD) protocol. The SWORD protocol allows the institutional repository to receive newly published articles from any of BioMed Central’s more than 200 journals, as soon as they are published.

DSpace@MIT contains the digital research materials of MIT faculty and researchers, including peer-reviewed scholarly articles, preprints, technical reports, theses and conference papers. Once saved in the online repository, materials can be searched and shared worldwide. Already, over 1,000 articles have been added to the 'MIT Open Access Articles' collection.

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Canadian researchers will now be able to contribute to a growing, searchable digital archive of published Canadian health research with the newly launched PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). PMC Canada is the result of a partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) and the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).

The initial version of PMC was launched in October 2009. The full version of PMC Canada, including a manuscript submission system for CIHR researchers, was released earlier this week. PMC Canada now supports CIHR's Policy on Access to Research Outputs, which requires CIHR grant recipients to make their peer-reviewed publications freely accessible online within six months of publication. Its manuscript submission system will enable CIHR-funded researchers to deposit their peer-reviewed articles, in a bid to expose their research to a global audience and facilitate collaboration to advance scientific progress.

PMC Canada builds on PubMed Central (PMC), the archive developed by the US’ NLM, and joins UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) as a member of the larger PMC International network. PMC and UKPMC content are also now accessible to Canadian researchers.

While CIHR supplied the funds for PMC Canada, NRC-CISTI contributed its technological expertise to build the infrastructure and will manage the repository.

The first phase of PMC Canada includes a basic bilingual interface, a manuscript submission system for CIHR researchers and a bilingual help desk. Plans for the second phase of the repository will incorporate a customised web front-end along with enhanced reporting and alerting features for system funders and users. An advisory committee of Canadian health researchers and other stakeholders will guide the repository’s future development.

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The Concordia University has announced that its academic community has passed a landmark Senate Resolution on Open Access. The resolution encourages all of its faculty and students to make their peer-reviewed research and creative output freely accessible via the internet.

Concordia claims to be the first major university in Canada where faculty has given their overwhelming support to a concerted effort to make full results of their research universally available.

In 2009, Concordia launched Spectrum, an open access digital repository that continues to grow beyond its initial 6,000 dissertations submitted at Concordia, and at its predecessors Sir George Williams University and Loyola College. The Senate Resolution encourages all of Concordia’s researchers to deposit their research and creative work in Spectrum.

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Bedford Library Royal Holloway, University of London, has become the latest university in the UK to give formal approval to an open access publication policy requiring its researchers to deposit copies of their research in the Royal Holloway Research Online (RHRO) repository from September 1, 2010.

The mandate puts the Library firmly at the heart of the research agenda of the College as well as reflecting sector best-practice. It is expected to significantly increase the number of full-text deposits in the RHRO repository. The open access research repository will act as an important medium for the dissemination of Royal Holloway’s research, which will be available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world, with an internet connection.

The move coincides with the forthcoming implementation of a new state-of-the-art research information system at Royal Holloway which will provide the missing link between open access publications, research administration and management information across the College.

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