FULIR - Full-text Institutional Repository of the Ruđer Bošković Institute

Although Mr. Fulir is main character from a cult Croatian movie (One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away, 1970) and in slang is a synonym for dandy, it is also acronym for Full-text Institutional Repository of the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI). The idea was initially born in 2006. Several software solutions were tested and Eprints 3, free software developed by the University of Southampton, was chosen for the repository. RBI Library has implemented the repository, maintains and develops it, as well as provides all support to RBI staff which uses it. Based on the RBI needs RBI digital repository will include three different types of archived content: scientific output of RBI staff, documentary materials and press clipping materials. In order to establish an institutional repository at the RBI, the Library has already digitized collection of old photographs, which are available in the Library photo gallery, as well as collections of Annual reports RBI, Annual Report – shorter version of reports in English and Scientific newsletter of RBI – Rudjer. So far a certain number of full-text scientific articles have been also archived. The main goals of the repository are: gathering of all scientific output (published and unpublished) produced by RBI scientists allowing them self archiving of full text documents into the repository in accordance with the copyright ; archiving and preservation of digital content of the RBI ; creating a digital archive for archiving of documental and press clipping materials about the RBI ; increasing visibility of the RBI scientific work in the worldwide scientific community ; promoting of the OA initiative at the RBI and in Croatia. FULIR supports OAI 2.0 (Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). It is listed in OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) and ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repository). FULIR was officially presented to the public on October 25th 2012, at 102nd Library Colloquium organized during the Open Access Week