Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Date
2020-12-03
Description
The MBLWHOI Library’s Institutional Repository (IR) is a CoreTrustSeal certified repository. We chose to go through this process to demonstrate our commitment to quality stewardship and to be a trusted option for our researchers facing funder and publisher requirements that data be accessible, and more recently, also citable with a DOI.
The Library always recommends that researchers deposit data in an appropriate subject or community repository, but there are many cases where the dataset needing a DOI does not fit that scenario. The ability to quickly and easily deposit data in a certified repository is a value added service for our users. Some funders now mandate the data must be deposited in a FAIR repository. Being a CoreTrustSeal certified repository ensures that the MBLWHOI Library’s Institutional Repository practices FAIR principles.
This lighting talk will show the steps we went through to become certified, some of the hurdles and benefits, as well our current status as an application reviewer. This process enabled us to review our internal process and procedures and re-examine any outdated practices. It shined a light on places we could improve our documentation and more clearly state our policies. The importance of demonstrating our commitment to quality and the Library’s continued efforts with the repository to remain on the forefront of technology with linked open data, schema.org, etc.
Keywords
institutional repositories, Northeast Institutional Repositories Day, NIRD, NIRD20, repository certification, CoreTrustSeal
Speaker Bio(s)
Debbie Roth manages the institutional repository for the Woods Hole scientific community, the Woods Hole Open Access Server (WHOAS). She provides guidance on copyright, open access and persistent identifiers. She works closely with their Data Librarian to provide access to data collections and make deposits to other repositories. Lisa Raymond supervises Library services at the WHOI and works with Jen Walton for overall management of the MBLWHOI Library. Lisa’s research focuses on data publication and citation.
DOI
10.13028/ee2e-g696
Rights and Permissions
Copyright © 2020 Roth and Raymond
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Repository Citation
Roth D, Raymond L. (2020). MBLWHOI Library’s Institutional Repository Stewardship Responsibility. Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD). https://doi.org/10.13028/ee2e-g696. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/neirug/2020/program/10
Included in
MBLWHOI Library’s Institutional Repository Stewardship Responsibility
The MBLWHOI Library’s Institutional Repository (IR) is a CoreTrustSeal certified repository. We chose to go through this process to demonstrate our commitment to quality stewardship and to be a trusted option for our researchers facing funder and publisher requirements that data be accessible, and more recently, also citable with a DOI.
The Library always recommends that researchers deposit data in an appropriate subject or community repository, but there are many cases where the dataset needing a DOI does not fit that scenario. The ability to quickly and easily deposit data in a certified repository is a value added service for our users. Some funders now mandate the data must be deposited in a FAIR repository. Being a CoreTrustSeal certified repository ensures that the MBLWHOI Library’s Institutional Repository practices FAIR principles.
This lighting talk will show the steps we went through to become certified, some of the hurdles and benefits, as well our current status as an application reviewer. This process enabled us to review our internal process and procedures and re-examine any outdated practices. It shined a light on places we could improve our documentation and more clearly state our policies. The importance of demonstrating our commitment to quality and the Library’s continued efforts with the repository to remain on the forefront of technology with linked open data, schema.org, etc.