[eIFLoa] Fwd: Looking for Evidence of Researcher Engagement

[Iryna Kuchma]

it would be great if you could share a short (1 paragraph) success story (or
stories!) about how your repository improved the experience of some
researchers at your institution.

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From: Leslie Carr <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Жов 2008 11:25
Subject: Looking for Evidence of Researcher Engagement
To: JISC-REPOSITORIES at jiscmail.ac.uk

Practitioners, developers and researchers in the repository community have
been asking whether repositories are effective at appealing to their primary
stakeholders: researchers. It would be great to have a collection of success
stories - anecdotes of how repositories have been able to improve the lot of
researchers - for appealing to institutional repository nay-sayers and open
access agnostics. These should be examples of real wins for real individuals
rather than marketing claims from repository software suppliers(!) as many
repository successes are due to the library team's hard work and insight
rather than the technical wizardry of the repository platform.

Please can you email me a short (1 paragraph) success story (or stories!)
about how your repository improved the experience of some researchers at
your institution. They could be in the form of a user testimonial or
described in your own words. I am not looking for tales of mass conversions
and hysteria, just very practical stories of repository benefit as
experienced by individuals. I will collect these together and make them
available for repository managers and others to use in their marketing and
advocacy.

A cross-platform discussion on this topic of Researcher Engagement will be
held at the previously announced EPrints meeting just before SPARC DR on
November 16th in Baltimore. If you're planning to go to Baltimore, come and
join in and boast about your repository's success, whatever software you
use!
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Les Carr

Pre-SPARC meeting in Balitimore: http://www.eprints.org/events/preDR2008