CODA

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• CODA
• Heather Bradley Kim Baxter

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WHITIREIA_at_CODARepository overview

• Digital Commons powered by Bepress, Berkley
  Electronic Press www.bepress.com
• Contains research by faculties arts and
  communication, business and information
  technology, faculty of health, education social
  sciences, services
• Collection includes full text and abstracts
  conference papers, dissertations, theses,
  articles, and other research

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Repository overview

• 2006 Whitireia joined CODA consortium with other
  Polytechnics
• Promoted through various committees and in
  co-operation with the Quality Development Centre
  responsible for the annual Research Report
• Goal is to have a clause in every Faculty
  Research plan whereby funding requires staff to
  provide research to CODA.
• Administrators have been proactive in acquiring
  appropriate research

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Current challenges

• Future costs of online repository
• Funding cuts at Whitireia
• Convincing CEO that CODA is value for money
• Persuading academic staff of the benefits of CODA
  and KRIS
• Ensuring all appropriate research is on CODA

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http//www.coda.ac.nz/whitireia/
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http//works.bepress.com/peter_deckers/
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Selected works page

• Free, permanent URL, belongs to the researcher
• Tools allow researchers to easily manage their
  work, upload new documents, generate readership
  reports, and send mailings
• Rank higher in Google and other search results
  than papers posted on personal sites because
  sites are aggregated with all Bepress content
  (160,000 papers) http//works.bepress.com/faq.html
  
• URLs useful for business cards conferences

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Plans for the future

• Future Options (depending on progress of CODA as
  a consortium)
• Share lead role
• Work independently
• Join another consortium
• Utilise open source software