Transcript Open Access
Open Access Sheila Cannell Director of Library Services University of Edinburgh UK, Scotland, Edinburgh …and Australia UK • JISC • Digital Repositories Programme (c. 20 funded) • House of Commons Science Select Committee report • Research Councils UK • Universities UK • Research Assessment Exercise Scotland • Devolved government, devolved HE funding • Strong social inclusion agenda • JISC project: IRIScotland – Exploring locus for national, regional(Scottish), institutional activity – Exploring cultural change issues needed at institutional level to encourage deposit • Scottish Declaration on Open Access (2004) Scottish Declaration on Open Access • Set up institutional repositories, and/or liaise with other organisations to establish a joint repository. • Encourage, and where practical mandate, researchers to deposit copies of their outputs (articles, reports, conference papers, etc) in an institutional or cooperative repository. • Encourage, and where practical mandate, the deposit of PhD theses in an institutional repository. • Review intellectual property policies, to ensure that researchers have the right and duty to provide an open access version of their research. Edinburgh (lib.ed.ac.uk) • • • • • • • Edinburgh Research Archive Uses Dspace for e-theses, e-prints, pre-prints E-theses mandate Many other repositories: learning objects, images, digitised materials, informatics, museum objects, exam papers, catalogue, website Digital architecture/federated searching E-research RAE—local and national work Issues for institutions • • • • • • • • • • • Population of IRs Mandating deposit Governance of IRs Sustainability of IRs Fulfilling RAE requirements Knowledge management Exposure of research Dealing with journal prices Digital architecture/federated searching Google Acronym creation factory Impressions of Australia • E-presses with different motivations • Both e-learning and e-prints as driver for the IR • Less passion for Open Access • Information management stronger driver • Digital architecture Discussion points • Why is there less passion for OA in Australia? • Why is Australia setting up e-presses now? • Reasons for repositories: access to information or information management? • What should the governance of IRs be? • What’s the way ahead for digital architecture/interoperability?