[eIFLoa] The Depot – an assured gateway to make research Open Access – becomes international

[Iryna Kuchma]

The Depot is a deposit service for researchers worldwide without an
institutional repository in which to deposit their papers, articles, and
book chapters (e-prints):

*The Depot – an assured gateway to make research Open Access – becomes
international*

* *

To coincide with the Open Access week, EDINA (a JISC UK-national academic
data centre based at the University of Edinburgh) is pleased to announce
that the Depot has been opened up internationally. Building upon its initial
role given to it by JISC, the Depot is now being opening up into a facility
to support the Open Access agenda internationally.

The Depot ( www.depot.edina.ac.uk)is an assured gateway to make research
Open Access - we provide two main services:

1. a deposit service for researchers worldwide without an institutional
repository in which to deposit their papers, articles, and book chapters
(e-prints).

2. a re-direct service which alerts depositors to more appropriate local
services if they exist.

The first time a researcher visits the Depot we will automatically check
with OpenDOAR, the registry for open access repositories, to find a more
appropriate local repository. If none exists then the author will be invited
to deposit their research in the Depot. The Depot is OAI-compliant allowing
deposited e-prints to be 'harvested' by search services, and other
repositories, giving them instant global visibility.

You can find the Depot at http://www.depot.edina.ac.uk/.



(the Depot team)