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Session
Panel: How to Make Repository Content Indexed and Discoverable
Time:
Tuesday, 04/June/2024:
11:00 - 12:30

Session Chair: Leigh Stork, University of Strathclyde
Location: Brevsorterarsalen 2

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How to make repository content indexed and discoverable

Petr Knoth1, Martin Klein2, George Macgregor3, Matteo Cancellieri1, Paul Walk4

1CORE, The Open University, United Kingdom; 2Los Alamos National Laboratory; 3University of Glasgow; 4Antleaf Ltd.

Millions of users access scholarly indexes each month. A solitary repository, if not correctly indexed, will languish alone. According to the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (Rodriguez, 2011), each individual repository is of limited value for research: the real power of Open Access lies in the possibility of connecting and tying together repositories. However, even today, many repositories are not yet configured in a way that would enable their resources to be comprehensively indexed in scholarly infrastructures.

Ensuring the discoverability of repository research outputs is crucial for:

- Maximizing the impact and reach of scholarly works

- Making research visible to the general public

- Facilitating research collaborations

- Delivering on the open science mission

- Enabling systematic literature reviews

- Monitoring compliance with funding agency policies

- Promoting reproducibility

- Fostering innovation

We propose a panel session that will provide a set of practical wide-ranging recommendations for repositories to enable, validate and monitor the indexing of their repository content. By implementing the wide-ranging recommendations and principles discussed in this panel session, repositories will be able to markedly improve their content’s discoverability.



 
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