Stimulating the Population of European Repositories results out

["V.M. Proudman" <v.m.proudman--uvt.nl@lists.yale.edu>]

I was at the DRIVER Summit last week,
      http://www.driver-support.eu/multi/DRIVERSummit.php and you 
have probably come across the DRIVER Study press release by now.
      http://www.driver-support.eu/multi/news.php?la=en

It gives me great pleasure to share the DRIVER publication 
results on populating repositories with you! All material is open 
access from this page.
      http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/driver-population.html

...[Excerpt from Study, pasted here by SH:

          Critical Success Factors for populating repositories and services
          identified by six European good practices
          http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=68181

      2. Critical success factors specific to Institutional Repositories
          2.1 Policy issues

      **  Establish an institutional policy which mandates the deposit
      of academic output. This is the main factor for the successful
      population of an IR...

...end excerpt]

Vanessa Proudman
NEEO Project Manager
Tilburg University Library
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