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The ERIS project seeks to build on previous work in Scotland that supports the development, implementation and use of institutional repository systems for the management of open access materials produced during the course of academic research.

Prior projects have shown that top-down advocacy, guidelines and the development of standards, while essential, are not sufficient to engage researchers with such repositories and therefore create the critical mass that repositories need – both at institutional and cross-repository levels – to achieve recognition amongst the research communities as a valid and useful research resource.

The ERIS Project is taking a user led 'bottom up' approach to identifying the needs of the research communities that exist across Scottish HEI through the development and engagement of user communities, including working with the research pooling initiatives in Scotland, who represent strategic collaborations of subject disciplines across institutions in Scotland.

To this end, the primary aims of the ERIS Project are; (a) Facilitate the integration of institutionally led publication repositories into research and institutional processes and, as a result, develop the [IRIScotland pilots] into a trusted, cross-repository and cross institutional research management service, capable of providing access to a critical mass of Scottish research output. (b) To develop – in close partnership with researchers and other repository stakeholders – a set of user-led and user-centric solutions that will motivate researchers to deposit their work into appropriate institutional repositories

More information can be found on the project website at http://eris.scurl.ac.uk