The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
has announced that a JISC-funded repository based at Warwick University has uploaded its 1,000th item,
just under a year after its launch. The Warwick Research Archive Project (WRAP) continues to add articles
and PhD theses to the free online resource, following funding from JISC's £14 million repositories and
preservation programme. The programme aimed to start up and interlink repositories in universities and
colleges across the UK.
JISC provided the institutions with access to trusted experts and
supported services such as digital rights management and preservation services, which form the building blocks
for a network of repositories.
JISC also aims to help repository managers work together and
build skills through the repositories support project. WRAP repository manager Jenny Delasalle is now
chair of the UK Council of Research Repositories.
Entries can be discovered easily via google
searches or accessed via the WRAP website or through repository cross-searching tools like OAIster,
which allow researchers to identify scholarly materials in repositories like WRAP across the world.
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