Great blog post on UPEI Library's implementation of an almost fully-automated IR which harvests metadata from databases and faculty CVs to create records in the IR. Faculty then review the metadata and can amend or enhance it as well as locate the final version, and depending on the publisher's open-access policy which can be found in the SHERPA/RoMEO database, point to that electronic copy of the paper.
SWORD is a lightweight protocol for deposit. SWORD is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol. SWORD is a JISC-funded project 2007-2008. SWORD stands for Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit. The motivator for SWORD is 'lowering the barriers to deposit', principally deposit into repositories, but potentially deposit into any system which wants to receive content from remote sources.