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| | Open Access Institutional Repositories meeting, Southampton, January 25-26, 2005 |
 | | Southampton recently became the first university in the UK to announce that it is transforming its OA repository from the status of an experiment to an integral part of the research infrastructure of the institution (University of Southampton 2004); we hope our accumulated experience will prove useful to other institutions planning a similar transition. |
 | | The University of Southampton is the home of both the GNU EPrints software, the most widely used software for building Open Access Institutional Repositories (Crow), and the JISC TARDis project, which has been investigating the technical, cultural and academic issues which surround OA IRs (Swan 2004). |
 | | To prepare UK universities and research institutions fully for these developments, the University of Southampton is offering two free one-day workshops, the first a tutorial on the practical details of setting up and running an Open Access IR, the second a symposium on policy implementation and future developments, particularly in the UK. |
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