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Surrey Uni gets a First in Institutional Repository. ProQuest wins first outsourcing institutional repository deal, writes Tracey Caldwell.(University of Surrey )(Brief Article)
The University of Surrey has bypassed freeware solutions and signed ProQuest to host its institutional repository. This is the first installation of Digital Commons @ in the UK - a new initiative from database publisher ProQuest.
The success of the repository is likely to depend on cultural factors and the university felt it was important to focus on acceptance and use of the repository, rather than getting tied up in technology issues.
Kate Price, e-strategy and resources manager at the university library, said: "The emphasis of our project from the very outset has been on the attitudes of our academics and university management, rather than on the technology of the repository platform, so the less work we need to put into the ...
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