Episode 2: Technology and the Role of the Repository with Eloy Rodrigues
In the second part of our latest Epistemicast mini-series, we focus on the role of technology and the academic repository in promoting interaction between universities and civic society. In discussion with Eloy Rodrigues, we explore how technology choices and openness can impact civic mission, and we look at practical steps for institutions to help engage a broader local and global audience.
The Director of the University of Minho Libraries, in Portugal, Eloy Rodrigues is a leading technology practitioner in the fields of scholarly communications, open access and open science. An early pioneer of open digital repositories, he established the University of Minho institutional repository in 2003, and has been coordinating work on RCAAP (Portugal Open Access Science Repositories) since 2008.
At international level Eloy works on several EU-funded projects related to Open Access and Open Science, including OpenAIRE and FOSTER. He is a member of the European
University Association Expert Group on Open Science and currently serves as Vice-chair of the Executive Board of OpenAIRE AMKE and of the Advisory
Committee of SciELO Portugal.
From 2015 to 2021, Eloy was the Chair of the Executive Board of COAR, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories and, in that role, contributed actively to Next Generation Repositories initiative, the Pubfair conceptual
model and the ongoing Notify Project.
Links:
- OpenAIRE: https://www.openaire.eu/
- COAR: https://coar-repositories.org/
- COAR Notify Project: https://coar-repositories.org/what-we-do/notify/
- FOSTER: https://openscience.eu/article/project/foster
