SHERPA-LEAP

I thought I’d post an update on the state of play with QMRO.

We’re currently working on a bug that is causing items to be assigned to the same Collection in DSpace twice.  The result is that a duplicate link appears in the Collections index for the item pointing to the same URL.  Not only is it very untidy (I’m a librarian, these things should be neat and tidy) it also makes browsing to see what we have; which should still be possible given our number of records, quite impossible.  Items can legitimately belong to more than one collection in DSpace, but they are not supposed to be able to belong to the same collection more than once.

Needless to say, our IT Services people are working on it, but it is causing us to delay public launch of the service still and this is becoming a source of frustration, not just for me but for our senior executive who are very keen to see it go live.

Any thoughts people may have very welcome!

In the meantime, I am working on my academic colleagues; encouraging them to put content in and to start thinking about Open Access more widely.  So far, they seem to be quite receptive, although this might be so that I’ll stop banging on about it and leave them in peace!

Thoughts, useful contacts and general moral support all gratefully received

SarahM, Queen Mary