Database and operating software package

Tender description

The purpose of the DPS is to support institutions by providing systems that enable the deposit, publishing, sharing, discovery, access and citation of research related digital objects with differing file formats and sizes. The main outputs will be Journal articles, theses and research data. The repositories will contain both public (open) and restricted (closed) outputs and outputs that are under embargo to a certain date. They will hold information about authors and contributors and their projects for example author name, department, projects, publications, contact details, collaborators. This information will be made public by the repository. JSL is establishing a DPS that will enable Jisc and its customers to easily purchase value for money and technically sound research outputs repository systems services and solutions. The DPS will enable new suppliers with new technologies to join the DPS throughout the lifetime of the service. To ensure maximum benefit for its customers, JSL will enforce a number of technical entry requirements that any supplier must fulfil before joining DPS, including by not limited to: — the service supports the deposit, publishing, sharing, discovery, access and citation of digital objects with differing file formats and sizes; — the service is a stand-alone product and does not require purchase of any other system (such as a CRIS); — the service can manage outputs from all research areas and is discipline neutral; — the service provides web-based and API deposit and access functionality; — the service supports established metadata schemas relevant to each research object type, for example DataCite, CrossRef, RIOXX, Ethos and have the capability to assign digital object identifiers; — the service supports open methods of authentication for machine and human access (e.g. UKAMF, Active Directory, OAuth, OpenID, SAML). The purpose of the DPS is to support institutions by providing systems that enable the deposit, publishing, sharing, discovery, access and citation of research related digital objects with differing file formats and sizes. The main outputs will be Journal articles, theses and research data. The repositories will contain both public (open) and restricted (closed) outputs and outputs that are under embargo to a certain date. They will hold information about authors and contributors and their projects for example author name, department, projects, publications, contact details, collaborators. This information will be made public by the repository. The scope of the DPS covers purchases by JSL, Jisc and its members. It also covers purchases by Higher Education institutions, Further Education and Specialist Colleges and Research Council establishments in the UK, and by any other organisations connected to the Janet network, including local authorities, regional broadband consortia, or other bodies whose core purpose is the support or advancement of further or higher education or of research. Many of the above organisations are members of higher and further education purchasing consortia. These consortia are independent organisations that provide a wide range of collaborative purchase agreements to their member institutions. Any member of one of these consortia will be eligible to purchase from this framework by virtue of its membership, as will members of any other similar purchasing consortium in higher or further education that might be formed during the lifetime of the framework. Membership lists for existing higher and further education purchasing consortia may be found at: https://www.lupc.ac.uk/member-list https://www.supc.ac.uk/about-us/our-members/our-members http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members http://www.neupc.ac.uk/our-members http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/members/ http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members