enabling IR compliance by pre-populating

I wanted to highlight some great work by Mark Leggott and his team at UPEI in building a system that demonstrates how you can connect a bunch of services and technologies together using a good platform, in order to get a powerful combined experience.

In brief (in my understanding), the Repository in a Box takes as input the metadata of your institution's academic output, then based on that metadata creates accounts for individual academics listing all of their papers, and on a per-article-record basis adds information from SHERPA/ROMEO about the policy of the publisher on OA, and an OpenURL link so you get to publisher and other appropriate copies.

So in a case where the policy allows deposit of the post-print PDF from the publisher, you're one click away from depositing that article.  If not, the author has all the metadata needed to find the right version to submit.

I think this is brilliant.

The only thing I've seen that is similar is BibApp (see Code4Lib 2007, and IDEALS@UIUC: BibApp Presentations).  I saw that at Open Repositories 2008.