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UKCoRR Areas of Activity

This section outlines the various activities carried out by UKCoRR in general. Please also see details of the UKCoRR Committee, UKCoRR Charter and agendas and minutes of committee meetings.

Collective professional voice

• To be a collective voice that can speak on behalf of its membership to publishers, funding councils, institutions and other relevant bodies.

Public voice and advocate

• To defend the work of repository establishment and development and for the members to be on the lookout for supporting evidence, statistics etc.

Facilitate Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

• To liaise with the members and information/service providers for provision of self-financing CPD activities.
• To facilitate members only discussion events.
• UKCoRR members have contributed significantly to the development of the SHERPA Repository Staff and Skills Set document which has proven to be a valuable resource for the repository community both in the UK and abroad.

Communications

• Communication between peers and from members to external groups and public.
• Communication facilitated through e-mail list and through meetings to provide networking and peer-2-peer support.
• Community webpage/portal to draw together professional resources for members.
• Facility for members to share experience, outputs, advocacy ideas, licences, templates, etc through website, communications, meetings.

Different granular levels of support

• Support for formation of (possibly ad hoc) groups working on specific projects or in specific areas through website, communications, meetings.

Support for members

• Draw together information that is of direct use to UKCoRR members in their professional work: for example, key websites which relate to repository management like the SHERPA or RSP websites; or key resources, like the Repository Skill-Set document which was put together with UKCoRR members' assistance.

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