The training explains how an institutional repository increases the visibility of research outputs by making them freely and globally available. It guides researchers through the process of uploading research outputs to an institutional repository, covers library services related to depositing research into an institutional repository, and describes the processes and workflows for submitting research outputs to a repository manager. 

By the end of this training, learners should:

• Understand the benefits of institutional repositories and Library services to support researchers.
• Know about different versions of published research, and how to handle them.
• Be able to deposit research outputs in a research repository (if applicable).
• Understand the processes and workflows for submitting research outputs to a repository manager. 

Training Outline:

• Introduction to institutional repository, its benefits, policies and workflows. 
• Keeping the correct version of a published paper – Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAMs) or postprint (after peer review) in addition to a published version or a Version of Record (VoR).
• How to upload to the institutional repository (if authors in your institution deposit their articles into the repository themselves), including a demonstration and upload practice.
• Library services e.g. copyright checking, workflows in sending papers to the library for uploading into the institutional repository. 

Resources for facilitators and learners

Videos and webinars: 

• Webinar recording and slides: “How to train students and researchers on the topic, Institutional repository”, Milica Ševkušić, Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and EIFL.
• Webinar recording and slides “Creative Commons, repositories and versions of articles”, EIFL.
• Webinar recording and slides “Institutional repository management”, EIFL and CARLIGH.

• “Increasing the visibility and impact of research by using institutional repositories”, Professor Aidan Moran, UCD School of Psychology.

• “Depositing Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAMs) in institutional repositories”, Lorraine Estelle, Iryna Kuchma, EIFL.

• “Discover Sherpa Romeo for PUBLISHER OPEN ACCESS POLICIES | Five Minute Friday”, Carrie Price.

• “Self-archiving: Leveraging open tools to bridge the gap between opportunity and practice”, Delwen Franzen (QUEST Center for Responsible Research).

Library Guides: (these are examples from University College Dublin, use your own repository materials)

• “Research Repository UCD: Visibility and Impact”. 
• “Repository Visibility and Impact”.
• “Repository Services for Researchers”.
• “Submitting materials”.
• “Submit the Correct Version”.
• “Copyright and Uploading Papers to Research Repository UCD”.

Examples of presentations, practical exercises, handouts and tip sheets:

• Ljiljana Radisavljević. “Repositories" [download].
• Irena Nježić. “Benefits of repositories and how to choose the best examples to illustrate them" [download].
• “Finding Wikipedia links pointing to a repository”. 
• “Authors - how to get the right version of your article for deposit in the repository”, EIFL.
• “Differences between Zenodo and institutional repositories”.