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Research Online: Achieving Success, Michael K. Organ
Research Online: Achieving Success, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
A description is given of the powerful outreach program that has brought Research Online 8 journals, 5000+ full text objects, and over 1 million downloads, all without a mandate. The author identifies key factors that have contributed to Research Online’s success and identifies hands-on strategies for attendees to take back to their home institution.
Leveraging Research Quality Assessment Exercises To Increase Repository Content - An Australian Case Study, Michael K. Organ
Leveraging Research Quality Assessment Exercises To Increase Repository Content - An Australian Case Study, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
The legacy of Australia’s national research quality assessment process – Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) - at the University of Wollongong during 2010 was improved integration between the institutional repository and research management systems, and a move towards digitisation of the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) with consequent flow-on of metadata and digital objects to the institutional repository. Whilst ERA was a diversion from the task of securing open access content through faculty promotion and one-on-one contact with researchers, it nevertheless gave rise to a semi-automated process which promised improved rates of content acquisition.