Transcript APE2014_Reilly

Ensuring access to the record of science:
driving changes in the role of research
libraries
APE2014
Berlin, 29th January
Susan Reilly
Projects Manager
LIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche
[email protected]
@skreilly
Contents
 About LIBER
 Drivers for (digital) preservation in research libraries
 Roles & opportunities
LIBER: reinventing the library of the future
 Largest network of European research libraries: 410 in over 40
countries
Mission:
To provide an information infrastructure to enable research
in LIBER institutions to be world class
Activities impacting preservation in research
libraries
We know that…
1. Reaseach practices are changing in more connected era
2. Deposit of born digital content being legislated for
3. Libraries collecting born digital (Websites, e-journal etc)
anyway
4. Responsible for institutional repositories
5. Developing role in research data management
6. Libraries are engaging in mass digitisation projects
but preservation is still essential
“one thing about scholarship will never
change: scholars will demand access to
information resources to examine what others
have discovered and thought; to use and reuse
evidence and scientific conclusions; and to
publish results of their own research based on
these resources. That is why their sources
must be authentic, reliable, easy to find and
retrieve, and easy to use and reuse”
Paul N. Courant (2008) No brief candle,
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/pub142.pdf
No. 1 benefit of digital preservation to
organisations*
“Increased use of content as a result of better
findability and availability”
*From APARSEN WP36 survey of libraries (Sep212)
No. 2 benefit to organisations
“Ensure the integrity of research results”
What is the scholarly record?
 Journal articles
 Research data
 E-books
 Digital/digitised cultural heritage
 Dynamic Web content
E-journals
 Not “owned” by the library
 Increasingly complex format
 Need provision for DP in license provision
 Move to open access adding complexity
 Need to rely on third party solutions
 Role moves to intermediary
 Responsibility to set out DP provisions at selection stage
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Open access articles
 Library can archive a copy without infringing copyright
 Licensing issues with content in green repositories
 Who takes responsibility for gold OA? Not all gold
publishers are equal (see DOAJ)
 Role returns to content provider/collector
 But who is responsible for preserving what?
 Danger of duplication of effort
Journal articles are just the tip of the pyramid!
 Reseach data management plans
 Data curation
 Archiving & preservation
 Role is to support research data management
 Responsibility to make data findable, citable, available
and reuseable
Digitised cultural heritage & dynamic web content
 The Bentham Project @UCL
 Est. 1969 to release entire works of Jeremy Bentham
 Went from analog to digitised
 eJournal: The Journal of Bentham Studies
 Website
 Crowdsourcing platform for transcription of manuscripts
 Role to support long term curation
Out of funding!
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5041/1/Sustaining_our_Digital_Future_Ith
aka_S%2BR_FINAL.PDF
Ensuring sustainability
Recognition of the benefits of digital
preservation by key decision-makers
Incentives for the decision-makers to act in the
public interest
A process for selecting digital materials for
long-term preservation
Mechanisms to secure an on-going, efficient
allocation of resources (e.g. skills) to digital
preservation activities
Appropriate governance of digital preservation
activities
Resource sharing/collaboration role
 Develop shared international infrastructure for legal edeposit (roll out e-depot to Europe!)
 Engage in best practice networks (APARSEN) to promote
skills and define standards
 Provide centralised digital curation platforms (e.g. UCL
Digital Collections See http://digitoolb.lib.ucl.ac.uk:8881/R)
 Look to the future! (implications of the Cloud?)
Intermediary role
 Publishers
 Agree DP provisions with publishers
 Promote shared archive services e.g. CLOCKKS & Portico
 Encourage use of simple licences (cc-by) for OA
 Researchers
 Advise on licences/copyright
 Support creation of data management plans
 Promote DP services/benefits
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Thank you!
 Any questions?
 Find out more at www.libereurope.eu
 More on open research data: www.recodeproject.eu
 More on digital preservation networks: www.aparsen.eu