We now have 10,000 items in our repository!
This week we reached another milestone – 10,000 items in the University of St Andrews Research Repository (or StARR for short if you prefer). That’s 10,000 full-texts of research publications, theses and other content types which will be open access and free to download for anyone with an internet connection. In keeping with established library tradition here is how we celebrated the occasion:
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| From left: Mike Bryce (Open access and repository support), Jen Pritchard (Pure team), Kyle Brady (Open access and repository support) |
This milestone represents the shared effort of many teams in the Library as well as across Schools in the University. In the Main Library David Collins and cataloguing colleagues are responsible for uploading University of St Andrews theses to the repository, in the Old Union Diner the Open Access team and Pure team oversee St Andrews research publications, many of which end up going into the repository. In Schools academics and support staff create records in Pure and upload manuscripts for public release, which are then checked and validated by the OA team before ending up in the repository.
This milestone has been very much a team effort, a team that stretches across the whole University, so we wish to thank everyone who helped make this happen.
Watch this space for a follow-up blog post about the StaRR 10,000th item!