Drivers
Open Access Resources
The primary push for repositories to exist came from the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) which promotes that each institution should make all of its publicly funded research available not just in the institution but everywhere else, i.e. enhancing access to scholarly communication both at institutional level and subject-based archives. The JISC Briefing Paper on Open Access provides a useful overview.
This section gives an overview of scholarly communication and discusses the drivers behind setting up open access repositories. Repository administrators need an understanding of this context to enable them to pursue and promote the repository agenda within the institution, to allow them to engage with the wider academic community, and to prepare them to be able to respond to individual queries and concerns as the repository is established.
