Populating the Institutional Repository with Automated Content Harvesting

This presentation was given by Yrjo Lappalainen and Nikesh Narayanan, Zayed University Library and Learning Commons

This presentation provides an overview of ZU Scholars (https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae) institutional repository, launched by Zayed University in 2021. Zayed University Library has developed a semi-automatic process to harvest metadata and CC-licensed full text files into the repository from various sources on a weekly basis. The approach has been successful as the Library has already harvested over 5300 metadata records and over 1000 CC-licensed full text files into the repository, resulting into over 40000 downloads. Future plans include generating custom reports from the repository data, pushing content into ORCID and establishing another semi-automatic process for requesting accepted author manuscripts