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A brief history of Surrey Scholarship OnLine (SSOL)

This paper presents a brief history of our institutional repository at the University of Surrey. We discuss cultural, administrative and practical issues encountered from the set-up of the pilot repository to the transition into a fully working service. We are now completing the second year of running the repository and are very keen to share experiences with managers from other institutions. The first part of the paper gives a rather detailed description of our first year feasibility study. We hope that such level of detail will help repository managers that are at the initial stages of developing a repository. The second part discusses the current state of our developing repository service, highlighting our main achievements to date and discussing the challenges ahead.