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Growing Ink: The Curious Case Of The Institutional Repository At Smu, Yeo, Pin Pin
Growing Ink: The Curious Case Of The Institutional Repository At Smu, Yeo, Pin Pin
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InK, the institutional repository of the Singapore Management University (SMU) was officially launched in January 2011 with 7,000 metadata records for SMU research publications, only 600 of which was full text. The Library uses a variety of strategies to increase the number of full text papers and to raise awareness about Open Access amongst the faculty. SMU’s Open Access policy was approved by the University’s Research Council and promulgated by the Vice-Provost, Research to the community a year ago. The Library pulls the data from the University’s Research Publications System, an in-house platform, to capture faculty publications. This ensures that …