Supporting scholarship in the digital age - the Depot launched : JISC

A major JISC conference being held in Manchester this week will mark an important milestone in establishing institutional repositories across UK education and research.

The conference, which begins today at ManchesterUniversity, sees the launch of the Depot, a national JISC-funded repository based at EDINA in the University of Edinburgh. This will enable all UK researchers to deposit their academic papers and other outputs under terms of Open Access, including those whose institution does not yet have a repository. The new service, with its simple message and advice to “put it in the Depot”, represents an important step in the development of a scholarly communications environment for UK education and research.