RepositoryMan

The Blog of a repository administrator and web scientist. Leslie Carr is a researcher and lecturer who runs a research repository for the School of Electronics and Computer Science in the University of Southampton in the UK. This blog is to record the day to day activities of a repository manager.

Friday, 17 April 2015

EPrints for EPSRC Data Management

The following simple Research Data Management advice has just been set around my institution for staff publishing papers to satisfy the ne...

Thursday, 31 January 2013

The Basics of Scholarly Communications in the UK

In the decade since the Budapest Open Access Initiative declared a new public good, there have been many expositions of the advantage and in...

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Repository Twitter Training

In a previous post I reported on using EPrints to gather data from Twitter in order to support researchers in the social sciences, parti...

Monday, 12 November 2012

Repositories, Theses and Graduation Ceremonies

I was attending my son's graduation ceremony at Bournemouth University last week. While waiting for his turn, the title of a graduating ...

Friday, 20 July 2012

Changing Lightbulbs

Some more reflections on the road(s) to Open Access... Q: How many publishers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: The lightbulb doe...

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Open Access Joke. Spoiler: not funny at all

Q: How many Finch committee members does it take to change a lightbulb? A: The lightbulb doesn't need to be changed, it just needs a ...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Gold Finch and Green Open Access

The UK's Finch Recommendations on Open Access, much of which look suspiciously like a blank cheque that the research sector has to write...

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About Me

Leslie Carr: Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom; I am a Professor of Web Science at the University of Southampton, studying the impact of the Web on human society, and vice versa. I am a Director of the Web Science Institute and its Doctoral Training Centre, where we run MScs and PhDs about the Web and the Digital Economy. One of the areas I have a specialist interest in is the research industry, so I am an e-researcher in e-Research, a repository manager, the Technical Director for EPrints repository software and the Director of EPrints Services, a repository hosting company that funds software development for EPrints.

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