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RUBRIC : building an institutional repository at the University of Newcastle to
showcase the research and intellectual output of the University.

 

Project Overview

The University of Newcastle is a partner in the Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively (RUBRIC) Project funded by the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) under the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII) as part of the Commonwealth Government's Backing Australia's Ability - An Innovation Action Plan for the Future.

The RUBRIC Project is a collaboration between regional and smaller universities to build research infrastructure and capability. Participating Universities include:

Partner universities are working to build and implement institutional repositories at each institution to showcase the research and intellectual output of their University. Repositories store digital items (scholarly publications, text, images, sound, data, etc) sponsored by the University. They also provide services to manage access as well as discovery of the content by the global research community. This is achieved through open, and controlled, access, e.g. internal and external as relevant.

A Project Manager is funded at each participating university to implement their repository. The project also funds a RUBRIC Central Project Team based at USQ for the purpose of providing support for local implementations. The RUBRIC Central Team includes a Technical Manager and technical team, a metadata specialist, RUBRIC Project Manager and Business and Communications Manager.

The project is an initiative of the University Library working in collaboration with Research Services.


Project Governance

A RUBRIC Board  was established in 2005 to provide project governance. The RUBRIC Board member for the University of Newcastle, also representing participating IRUA institutions, is the University Librarian.

The RUBRIC Project forms part of the University’s IT Program of Works and sits within the Research Portfolio of Projects, reporting through the Portfolio Project Manager.

Project Life Cycle

The RUBRIC Project Manager, University of Newcastle was appointed in January 2006 and reports directly to the University Librarian and RUBRIC Board members. The University of Newcastle RUBRIC Project Manager is also responsible for liaison with participating IRUA RUBRIC Project Managers.

RUBRIC officially commenced in June 2005 and is funded through to 30th June 2007 with a potential extension to December 2007 pending confirmation from DEST.

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