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Re: The costs of setting up and maintaining institutional repositories

At 02.15 27/09/2005, Rebecca Kemp wrote:


I am trying to do a cost assessment of both vendor-created solutions and
open-source solutions for creating and maintaining institutional
repositories.

At CILEA, a non-profit organizazion providing ICT facilities to
universities and research centres, we have put up and are running several
repositories for different institutions, mainly with EPrints and DSpace
(open-source free software).

The cost is 7,200 euros for start-up and first year management, then 2,400
euros/year, including the use of our hardware facilities, training and
remote assistance.


From the institution's side, we recommend a working group with some

faculties and librarians for analysis, set up and promotion (at least for
a couple of months), then a part-time librarian is enough for maintenance
if the IR is based on self-archiving. The amount of faculty involvment is
up to the institution. No IT people is needed at all.

For more information please do not hesitate to contact me directly, best
regards, Susanna Mornati

Susanna Mornati
Project  Leader AePIC, http://www.aepic.it
Coordinator PLEIADI, http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi

CILEA - Inter-Academic Consortium for ICT, http://www.cilea.it
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