The RIOJA project investigated the overlay of quality assurance onto papers deposited to and stored in eprints repositories. It ran from 01 March 2007 to 30 June 2008. RIOJA was funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, UK), as part of the Repositories and Preservation Programme. It was led by UCL (University College London), working with a partnership of academic researchers, librarians and repository administrators.
The partner institutions were:
- UCL
- University of Cambridge
- Cornell University
- University of Glasgow
- Imperial College London
RIOJA created a tool to support automated interactions between journal software and public repositories. The project also built a pilot “overlay journal”, to demonstrate interactions between the arXiv subject repository and OJS journal software, facilitated by the RIOJA tool. Additionally, RIOJA explored some of the social and economic aspects of building certification onto repositories. A large-scale survey of researchers from the field of Astrophysics and Cosmology was carried out, and a feasibility study on the costs and sustainability of an overlay journal was produced.
