The Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA)

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• The Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA)
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• An introduction

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What is an institutional repository

• A university-based institutional repository is
  a set of services that a university offers to the
  members of its community for the management and
  dissemination of digital materials created by the
  institution and its community members. It is most
  essentially an organizational commitment to the
  stewardship of these digital materials, including
  long-term preservation where appropriate, as well
  as organization and access or distribution.Clif
  ford A. Lynch, "Institutional Repositories
  Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the
  Digital Age" ARL, no. 226 (February 2003) 1-7.

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What is an institutional repository

• Web-based database (archive)
• Containing scholarly content
• Institutionally defined
• Cumulative and perpetual
• Open and interoperable

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Advantages

• The institutions research output is freely
  available
• In one common interface
• Increased visibility and impact for researchers
  and research groups
• Efficient dissemination
• Persistent identifiers to content
• http//hdl.handle.net/1956/440

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Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA)

• Institutional archive for the University of
  Bergen
• Launched in November 2004
• Mainly contains articles and theses, but also
  other material created by UiB academics
• Part of the development of a national searching
  service, Norwegian Open Research Archives (NORA)

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BORA for three institutions

• BORA was initially created to potentially include
  other
• institutions in the Bergen area
• Member institutions
• The University of Bergen
• Norwegian School of Economics and Business
  administration (NHH)
• Bergen University College (HiB)

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DSpace

• Online publishing tool developed by
  Hewlett-Packard and Massachusetts Institute of
  Technology (MIT)
• Open source software
• Platform for BORA
• Appropriate content
• Articles and preprints
• Technical reports
• Working papers
• Conference papers
• E-theses
• Datasets statistical, geospatial, matlab, etc.
• Images visual, scientific, etc.
• Audio files
• Video files
• Learning objects
• Reformatted digital library collections

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Some glimpses into BORA
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BORA - screenshot
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Submission
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Other repositories

• Dspace_at_Cambridge
• Open University Netherlands DSpace service
• University of Rochester - UR research

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Questions?
http//bora.uib.no http//ub.uio.no/nora
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