IRIScotland
Institutional Repository
Infrastructure for Scotland (IRIScotland) was conceived as a means
to provide the organisational and technological framework for a Scotland-wide
institutional repository infrastructure for research. The project is funded
by JISC under the Digital
Repositories Programme. The project began on the 1st of September
2005 and will be completed on the 31st of August 2007. The project manager
is Philip Hunter.
IRIScotland seeks to bring about cultural and organisational changes
by developing, in close co-operation with researchers and senior administrators,
institutional policies, procedures and workflows conducive to open access
publishing and self-archiving with a view to encouraging the rapid population
of institutional repositories. The project will establish both a pilot
repository hosting service to make it possible for Scottish institutions
that may not wish to set up their own repositories to increase the visibility
of their research output, and a harvester-based pilot cross-repository
search and browse service to enhance exposure of the Scottish research
output as a whole – a framework applicable to any regional or subject
groupings that might become building blocks for a UK-wide digital repository
infrastructure.