Our concept
GrandIR provides technical support to institutional repository projects in universities and research centres. Repositories are databases of self-produced research works which the abovementioned institutions offer in an Open Access way, that is, freely available via the Internet.
GrandIR aims to offer these repositories, either running or still in project, a whole series of support services for contributing to their development along their different implementation stages. GrandIR intends thus to become a technological partner to those projects interested in having a support service, as well as to the Open Access and repository community as a whole.
With these goals in mind, GrandIR will work along the following three main lines:
- Providing support for setting up and developing Open Access repositories, plus related services
- Organizing technical sessions for the repository and Open Access community
- Promoting Open Access-related initiatives, such as repositories and digital libraries, in developing countries in an international cooperation framework
News
Presentations available from the GrandIR Technical session on RDM in Barcelona
Slides, videos and the summary and conclusions report from the GrandIR Technical session on RDM held last week are already available. The session, co-organised by and held at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, joined over 30 professionals from various backgrounds to discuss the growing RDM activity in Spain
EIFL Workshop on Open Archives in Monastir, Tunisia
GrandIR has recently taken part in the EIFL Workshop on Open Access Repositories for the Maghreb Countries that was held May 14-15 in Monastir, Tunisia. Two presentations were dellivered at the event by GrandIR: "Mise en place d'archives ouvertes et accroitre la visibilité au niveau mondiale: Retour d’expériences" on lessons learnt from the OASCIR Project at the University of Khartoum, and "Le volet technique" on repository software and its implementation requirements.
GrandIR sponsors the 5th OS Repositorios Workshop
In line with its policy for sponsoring events related to Open Access -such as last Open Access Week in Oct 2011- GrandIR will be official sponsor for the 5th OS Repositorios Workshop to be held in Bilbao next May 23-25.
