The Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) - An introduction

Elin Stangeland, May 2006

The Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA)-

An introduction

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.”

Clifford 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

BORA - screenshot

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Submission

Other repositories

• Dspace@Cambridge• Open University Netherlands – DSpace service• University of Rochester - UR research

Questions?

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http://bora.uib.nohttp://ub.uio.no/nora