Take part in an Institutional Repository survey – More than £50 in Amazon book vouchers to be won!

BURP! – The Bradford University Repository Project team are inviting all members of staff at the University of Bradford to take part in a user needs survey. The aim of the survey is to find out what YOU think about repositories and how you would interact with a University repository. As a thank you for taking part we will be drawing three prizes (Amazon book vouchers: 1st prize £50, 2nd and 3rd prize £25) between all participants on 2nd June.

Staff survey (open until 30th May)

Background to the project

The Library has been granted JISC funding for a one-year project to set up an institutional repository for the University.

An institutional repository may be defined as a web-based database (repository) of a range of scholarly materials which is institutionally defined; cumulative and perpetual; open and interoperable.

As you may know the University of Bradford currently have a number of digital repositories within the University but it does not have an Institutional Repository. The principal examples are E-Pository which hosts some learning objects and archival material for administration, and Virtual Scholars which uses the open source software DSpace to store postgraduate dissertations. Schools and departments may also run their own databases of bibliographic and/or full text materials on various platforms.

The aim of BURP! is to set up an open access digital institutional repository for Bradford’s scholarly content in a variety of formats, including text, images, audio and video. The DSpace software will be used to pilot content from selected School(s).

More information about the Project is available and you can contact the Project Team via email.