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Institutional Repositories Discipline Based Repositories Pauline Simpson National Oceanography Centre, Southampton GRADE Kick Off Meeting 28 Sep 2005 Outline Geospatial data = Institutional and Subject Repositories Repository choices Data Centres Possible solutions Geospatial Data Scope within GRADE Numerical data, raw and analyzed Information Products Publications CD Roms, DVD Learning Objects Repositories are spreading because … Supplementary to traditional publication Do not affect current research publication processes Give easy access Give rapid access Give long-term access Increase readership and use of material They offer advantages to institutions They offer advantages to research funders They offer new ways for information to be linked and used Subject/Discipline Based Repositories Relies on peer interaction – no mandate Individual agreements have to be struck No definitive boundaries Quality control issues Sustainability issues Transitory – collection at risk Responsibility for preservation Issues over the return on the money and effort invested ? A trusted repository? Supported by …. Subject repositories are archives which collect and manage material relating to one or more related subject areas. A number currently exist mainly within science subjects. Significant subject repositories include many using e-Prints or DSpace software: ArXiv - / (physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science) Cogprints - http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ (Cognitive sciences including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and other related areas) CiteSeer - /cs (computer science) HTP Prints - http://htpprints.yorku.ca/ (History and theory of psychology) PubMedCentral - / (US National Library of Medicines digital archive of life sciences journal literature. PhilSci Archive - / (philosophy of science) E-LIS - / (library and information science) RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)                   ? Institutio