Transcript University of Bergen Library
University of Bergen Library
Electronic publishing Bergen – Makerere visit February 2005
Agenda
• Institutional repositories • The Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) • Introduction to Dspace, the software • Q&A
Institutional Repository
• Institution-based • Scholarly material in digital formats • Cumulative and perpetual • Potentially new publishing models • Provides faculty with long-term storage of research data and publications
Benefits
• The institutions research freely available in one database on the internet for everyone to access • Maximise the visibility and impact of research for individual researchers and their fellows • Uniform Resource Identifiers are given to each document • Searchability through Google, and Union Catalogues • Maximise the access to research at other institutions [who follow suit]
Copyright issues
• When authors publish articles in peer reviewed magazines they have to give up their copyright • 91% of academic publishers allow self-archiving of research papers in institutional repositories • The Sherpa project • The Romeo copyright overview
Green light to self-archive: Neither yet Preprint Postprint
Journals
8862
754 1975 6133 %
(100%)
9% +22% (=
91%
) 69% Kilde: Stevan Harnad, PowerPoint Presentation - Self-archiving Illustration Publishers
103
35 6 62 %
(100%)
34% +6% (=66%) 60%
Why Libraries?
• Expertise – Large-scale collection management • Collection policies • Preservation – Metadata – Solid business practices • Commitment – Long time frames – Fits with Libraries’ mission
Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA)
• Main goals: – Enabling secure digital long term storage of research from the University of Bergen – Make this research freely available on the internet • Working group: University library + ITdept. • Established cooperation with University of Glasgow • Pilot projects
BORA – further development
● Two databases ● BORA – containing peer review material, dissertations and masters theses ● ● The exam archive – containing phd-dissertations, masters theses (complete collection) And possibly a third database – containing series, reports, out of print monographies etc.
All of these made available by using DSpace
What is DSpace?
• Software for institutional repostiories • Captures – Digital research material in any format – Directly from creators or other fascilitators – Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage • Distributes via the internet • Preserves – Bitstream guaranteed – A few supported formats where we guarantee longterm usability (pdf)
Information Model
• Communities – Research units of the organization • Collections (in communities) – Distinct groupings of like items • Items (in collections) – Logical content objects – Receive persistent identifier • Bitstreams (in items) – Individual files – Receive preservation treatment
Possible DSpace Content
• Articles – Preprints, e-prints • Technical Reports • Working Papers • Conference Papers • E-theses • Audio/Video • Datasets – Statistical, geospatial • Images – Visual, scientific • Teaching material – Lecture notes, visualizations, simulations • Digitized library collections
Easy to Use
• Easy to add content • Easy to create permanent identifiers for your content • browse and search content
Uganda Science Digital Library (USDL)
• Pilot project – Digitization • select information sources to digitize • learn to use scanner and software – USDL • assess copyright issues • document formats • train project employees in using DSpace • start use...
USDL – building the Communities
• Assess what a department has published • Check copyright • Set up the Community • Add content • Use metadata (keywords, descriptions) to aid search and retrieval • Update community’s content with new research