[eifloa] eIFL INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES SETTING THE PLATFORM FOR INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION!!

Fri Nov 2 12:38:28 EET 2007

Dear Susan

I can only echo our colleagues in their congratulations.

It's truly amazing and very satisfying to see what you've achieved in a
relevant short period. I know there were many challenges, but your
persistence and perseverance paid off. 

Congratulations and thanks to all the EIFL-OA coordinators for your hard
work and sharing eIFL and Susan's enthusiasm for IRs. 

See you soon in Belgrade. Looking forward to taking IRs and OA forward.

Kind regards

Hannie

Hannie Sander

Executive Director: Library and Information Centre

University of Johannesburg

PO Box 524

Auckland Park

JOHANNESBURG

2006

email jsander at uj.ac.za <mailto:jsander at uj.ac.za> 

Tel +27 11 559 2169

Fax +27 11 726 7723

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From: Iryna Kuchma [mailto:kuchma at irf.kiev.ua] 
Sent: 01 November 2007 02:27 PM
To: Susan Veldsman; eifloa at eifl.net
Subject: Re: [eifloa] eIFL INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES SETTING THE
PLATFORM FOR INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION!!

Congratulations Susan and eIFL - http://eifl.cq2.org is an impressive
project and a huge step in standardizing and promoting our local OA
repositories! It has already helped Ukrainian repositories to correct
existing records. 

I am also interested in adding some extra top level services to it like
for example top 10 scholars of the months, top 10 student researche of
the months, citation indexes (both national and international). 

Keeping in touch,  

Best wishes,

Iryna.    

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	From: Kathy Matsika <mailto:kmatsika at yahoo.com>  

	To: Susan Veldsman <mailto:susan.veldsman at eifl.net>  ;
eifloa at eifl.net 

	Cc: lawrence chikwanah <mailto:zulcsecretary at yahoo.com>  ;
lchikwanha at cut.ac.zw ; kathy matsika <mailto:kmatsika at nust.ac.zw>  ;
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<mailto:mhlanga at mailhost.buse.ac.zw>  ; Sheila Ndlovu
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	Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 6:34 PM

	Subject: Re: [eifloa] eIFL INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES SETTING
THE PLATFORM FOR INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION!!

	Dear Susan

	This is very impressive and will motivate more libraries to do
something about Institutional Repositories.

	I will certainly send it to my Colleagues in ZULC and speed up
developments in my own Library.

	Once again, well done.

	Kathy

	Susan Veldsman <susan.veldsman at eifl.net> wrote:

		--> 

		Dear colleagues,

		Over the last year we have been working hard to create a
database and record all aspects of Institutional Repositories that have
been developed in all our member countries. After a lot of
correspondence and updating with countries, we can now report that 17
member eIFL countries currently have:

		-          27 repositories in progress

		-          69 active repositories, 

		-          Total of 96 institutional repositories

		This gave us the opportunity to look for international
co-operation with other projects. Being so closely associated with SURF,
the Netherlands, eIFL  were quite aware of the DRIVER project and it
follow up DRIVER II sister project. (Digital Repository Infrastructure
Vision for European Research:DRIVER) that they were involved in. One of
the objectives of DRIVER is to organize and build a virtual, European
scale network  (portal) of existing institutional repositories from the
Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Belgium.

		eIFL saw the challenge and decided to piggy back on the
expertise and technology infrastructure that the DRIVER project already
had in place. Talks began with all parties involved and during June/July
2007 a similar portal(network) was created and can currently be viewed
at http://eifl.cq2.org <http://eifl.cq2.org/> . (please not that this is
only a test site and not to be distributed yet) We hope in two weeks
time (GA)  we will have something that you could show the world!

		This, therefore, implies that , eIFL has organized and
built a virtual, eIFL member country scale network  (portal) of existing
institutional repositories from eIFL countries!!!!

		This is only the beginning of a long journey. A meeting
was held in Utrecht in October  to discuss the way forward with this
portal/infrastructure we have created. The decision was that

		-          a contract will be signed till December  2007
with the IT company to refine and adjust the portal

		-          general data e.g. base URLs, contact people ,
etc  will be continuously updated

		-          the portal will get an eIFL look and feel to
it (currently it is on the test site, and resembles nothing of eIFL)!

		-          The metadata will be cleaned up, so that we
could present it internationally

		-          A statistical programme will also be attached
to it , to monitor usage from across the world

		eIFL's ultimate goal is to develop these repositories
and getting them on an international standard. This will be done by
training e.g  metadata, other standards, linking, setting up
repositories. Etc etc These repositories should be at such a level so
that they could easily feed or be included in e.g. DRIVER project.

		This has brought a great profile to eIFL and feedback
has been with big enthusiasm and excitement!. 

		This is not the only activities we are envisaging, we
are also busy to "mass register"  eIFL repositories in IR registers and
harvesters (OAIster and OpenDOAR) We are also looking at additional
training that could be given to countries to "move" their repositories
form inactive to active, as well as to start up repositories.

		I hope this has given countries enough overview, over
the short term for the eIFL OA program?

		KIN REGARDS

		SUSAN

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		Susan Veldsman

		eIFL content Manager

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