ROMOR National Roadmap A National Infrastructure for Research Output Management in Palestine

The national roadmap is proposing sharing infrastructures collaboratively across individual institutions to promote the research output of partner higher education institutions as a whole, including agreements on metadata standards, services, and research output and open access policies. The partners will be collaborating to deploy a scalable shared platform for digital research output management, preservation, access, and discovery. The national roadmap builds on the results and recommendations of Erasmus+ CBHE KA2 project titled ROMOR. ROMOR aims to improve the management, visibility, and accessibility of scientific research outputs in Palestinian HEIs by establishing new or enhancing existing Open Access Institutional Repositories in four universities, and improving institutional capacity for the management and sharing of research outputs held within the repositories. One main recommendation from ROMOR is to create a common national platform that supports all institutions and enables OA institutional repository at every institution for effective and reliable management of research output of different types. The proposed platform has three main components that fill the gaps in the current existing Institutional Repositories and are intended to provide a framework that allows existing and future IRs to be federated within a coherent system: 1) a network of repositories that enables discovery, 2) two flexible central infrastructures for repositories for research publications with preservation service, and 3) a national center for research data management to address the need for publishing and preserving research data underlying research publications.