The Bradford University Repository Project – BURP! is soon coming to its close. The 1-year project has been offering a lot of challenges but the Project Team are happy to announce the forthcoming launch of Bradford Scholars – the University of Bradford online research archive. The archive is already available to users for viewing existing materials and contributing new content.
We currently host almost 400 full digital objects ranging from traditional journal articles and conference papers to theses and video recordings. Sign up for RSS feeds to learn about new content being added daily. Scholarly materials hosted in Bradford Scholars may be browsed on-site at http://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk or located via any search engine. Furthermore, content is completely open access and free to any web user.
Bradford Scholars is registered with a number of repository registries, hubs and search services, including OpenDOAR, ROAR, Scientific Commons, Intute Repository Search and NDLTD.
Staff and students at the University of Bradford may be interested in knowing that Bradford Scholars interacts with our current Blackboard VLE, Metalib and the forthcoming new library catalogue Encore. The new content management systems soon to roll out on campus will also permit staff to receive live feeds from the repository to their personal webpages.
Staff at the University of Bradford are eligible to contribute their research by first registering at the Bradford Scholars homepage. A number of guides and information sheets have been made available to contributors and personal help is available via telephone, email or face-to-face. Simply get in touch with the repository team (ex3400 or bradscholars@bradford.ac.uk)
