Transcript The Instittional Repository route to Open Access

The Institutional Repository route to Open
Access: implications for its evolution
Jessie Hey, Pauline Simpson, Tim Brody, Leslie Carr
University of Southampton Libraries and School of Electronics and Computer Science
TARDis Project - Southampton Institutional Research Repository
University of Southampton, UK
Motivation:
Open Access vision: global visibility for research with strong emphasis on peer reviewed journal articles
Routes combine Open Access journals and Open Access repositories: subject and institutional
Institutional Repository vision: showcasing all local research output (e-Prints) contributing to global search
Method:
IR evolution driven by our user needs: developing ‘hybrid’ publications database for research recording with metadata and including full text where achievable
Advocacy, exemplars and rapidly changing external climate encourage more full text deposits
Result:
Evolving to more complex but sustainable ‘digital’ Institutional Research Repository which encompasses Open Access goal
Full Text
e-Print Research Archives
Open Access Paradigm Shift
Other Institutional Repositories
e-Research
Institutional Research
Repository
with RAE management
Research Reporting
Requirements:
University, National, International
•Moving towards sustainable
open access institutional
repository
•Proactive open access
culture
•Integrated research
discovery
– enriched resources:
multimedia, datasets
•Target – academic research
•Creation of e-Prints Soton
•Initial Advocacy
•Environmental audit
•Software redesign for IR
•Mediation offered
•Project cluster
collaboration
•Demonstrate potential of
IR as RAE tool
•Import existing metadata
•Collaborate with researchers
to encourage proactive input
•Address authentication and
branding issues
•Develop extra functionality
•Pilot and Feedback:
One record – many outputs
Saving academics’ time
•Policy and strategy change
•Redirection to
Southampton University
Publications Database
•Targeted Advocacy
Open Access Vision
EPrints Software
JISC FAIR Programme
Institutional Research
Repository
Full text only
Research Policy Committees
University, Faculty and Schools
Pilot Schools
Institutional Research Repository
with full text
where possible
The Open Access [R]evolution via the Southampton University Research Repository route
An e-Prints service informed by user needs and good information management practice
Feeding into generic EPrints software
TARDis - Targeting Academic Research for
Deposit and Disclosure http://tardis.eprints.org
Southampton University Research
Repository http://eprints.soton.ac.uk
[email protected]
Presented at
ECDL
2004