Populating the Institutional Repository with Automated Content Harvesting

<p><strong>This presentation was given by Yrjo Lappalainen and Nikesh Narayanan, Zayed University Library and Learning Commons</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>This presentation provides an overview of ZU Scholars (<a href="https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/" target="_blank">https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae</a>) 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 </p>