At CoSector we believe it’s just as important to share our expertise with the sector and to help drive improvements in standards, quality and value for money. Our team members are often leaders in their fields.
This is as much the case for our work in digital repositories as it is in digital learning.
Our research repository team recently attended the Open Repositories 2025 conference and helped deliver a number of talks and sessions. We highlight the best of them here.
Overall it was a really successful conference with insightful presentations and as ever enjoyable networking opportunities where we get to learn and engage with other organisations in the sector, client institutions and occasionally our competitors and rivals, as we continue to support and develop sustainable, open and equitable scholarly research infrastructure.
Sessions led by CoSector team members
Using PCI, COAR Notify and EPrints to Re-Invent the Publication Workflow
For over 20 years the Open Access movement has made great changes in how academic research is disseminated. Yet the overall workflow of research, review, publish and disseminate has remained persistent along with its associated issues.
Will Fyson presented a proposal for a new publishing workflow enabled by an integration of technologies old and new: the EPrints repository platform the Peer Community In organistion and their expert reviewers; and the COAR Notify protocol
Sustainable Development Goals in EPrints: Updates, Failures, and Experiments
At OR 2024 Eleanor Dumbill presented on work she had undertaken to add sustainable development goals (SDGs) to EPrints.
Her talk at OR 2025 discussed the progress towards this. A specific an issue was excessive and imprecise identifications by automated searches. She explore some of the possible reasons for these issues and some of the possible solutions.
Open Repository sessions with CoSector contributions
Towards EPrints 3.5: repository developments, roadmap, and governance improvements
This repository showdown contribution presented EPrints developments, summarising the principal updates and functionality improvements implemented on various recent iterations (3.4+) of the software.
Presentation in conjunction with the Practice Voices Research project
Practice research as a lens to enable a future with a FAIRer, more equitable scholarly research landscape
Global engagement has demonstrated the need to articulate what practice research is and the benefits of using this lens to go beyond the assumption that ‘non-traditional research outputs’ are defined by their format and merely supplementary.
This presentation discussed opportunities for open and research data repositories to: (1) develop community owned open infrastructure working in co-design with discipline communities; (2) make the research process visible as it is developed; (3) implement accessibility, user interface and user experience best practice; (4) capture a more inclusive range of contributors (5) enable re-use that respects rights owners and provenance and (6) act as a space to adopt and inform changes to open standards and influence a more nuanced aligned strategy and policy landscape and initiatives.
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