Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:46:56 +1100
From: Arthur Sale <ahjs@OZEMAIL.COM.AU>
Subject: Risk Analysis
To: JISC-REPOSITORIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Many research institutions are deciding to set up Open Access
Repositories. I have seen a lot of postings about why you should do this,
but the Risk Analysis often seems to be left off the list of important tasks.
Here is a generic risk analysis for any university or research organization.
It pinpoints the key risks that you will need to manage, and which are
actually not significant risks.
http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000266/ I hope that you find
this document useful (only 9 pages), and you have my permission to
customize it for your university.
If you are contemplating a more grandiose type of repository, then you
should still find this very useful, because the Open Access Repository is
in fact quite enough to bite off for a first implementation, and its risks are
significant.
Arthur Sale