RoMEO Green at the University of Kansas: An experiment to encourageinterest and participation among faculty and jumpstart populating the KUScholarWorks Repository

摘要

Universities around the world are beginning to develop digital repositories in order to offer new methodsrnfor the distribution and preservation of the intellectual output of their faculty. The University of Kansasrn(KU) is among these universities and is exploring ways to provide better access to and preservation ofrnpublished and unpublished scholarly research created by KU faculty. The University's institutionalrnrepository, KU ScholarWorks, entered into production in October 2004rnwith participation from selected departments and research centers and opened to all faculty early in 2005.rnWhile the expectation is that faculty will self-archive their submissions through a departmentalrncommunity structure, we initiated a project, RoMEO Green, to explore other staff-mediated options forrncontent recruitment. This paper will address the steps taken thus far to populate the repository throughrnthis alternative process, the data collection methods, and early findings during the data analysis phase.rnWe will discuss possible implications of these results for future directions of this project and for thernlarger mission of KU ScholarWorks. Project findings may be of interest to institutions consideringrndifferent models for populating institutional repositories.