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Institutional Repository: An
Overview
Poornima Narayana
Deputy Head, Information Center
National Aerospace Laboratories
Bangalore -560017
[email protected]
Bangalore University
Jan 31, 2006
What is an IR
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An IR is a service that a Research Organization
offers to its community for the management and
dissemination of research materials created by the
community members
 Currently used by leading academic and research
institutions worldwide for providing improved
access to their research publications
Why an IR?
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Halving the double dip
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Providing outlets for monographs and other specialty publications
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Ensuring persistent access to information
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Better representation of scholarship created within the institution
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Stake or further leadership claim in a specific subject area
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For consortia, display the depth and breadth of members’ intellectual
output
Why Institutional
Repositories?
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For the Individual
– Provide a central archive of their work
– Increase the dissemination and impact of their research
– Acts as a full CV
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For the Institution
– Increases visibility and prestige
– Acts as an advertisement to funding sources, potential new faculty
and students, etc.
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For Society
– Provide access to the world’s research
– Ensures long-term preservation of institutes’ academic output
Type of Research Material in an IR
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Published Research Material
Ex: Journal articles, Book chapters, Conference
papers
Unpublished Research Material
Ex: preprints, working papers,
Thesis/dissertations, technical reports,
progress/status reports, committee reports
presentations, teaching materials, audio/video
clips
Supporting Research material
Ex: Data sheets, models, blue prints
An Institutional Repository can
provide
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A complement to existing Scholarly Communication models
A complement to other digital collections (dynamic connections
between “texts”)
Redundancy of scholarship (NELLCO & RePEc)
Collocation for a scholar’s work (Researcher Page)
Greater access to grey literature
Institutional stewardship & preservation (Are data providers or
aggregators as committed long-term as an institution’s library?)
How does IR work
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Research material is hosted and managed on an
Institutional Repository server, using appropriate
IR software
 Accessible on the organizational LAN (intranet) +
Internet/private network
 Scientists use a web browser to submit (deposit)
research material and also search the repository
 Through OAI inter-operability protocol, a central
search service ‘Harvests” metadata from
individual IR’s, builds a cross-index and provides
single point cross-repository search service
IR Technology
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Open source IR software (Free)
 OAI-PMH harvesting protocol/software
(Free)
 Intel/Pentium servers for IR
 Linux/Red Hat OS, MySQL/PostGress
DBMS, Apache/Tomcat web server,
Perl/Java (Free)
IR Software
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Key component of an IR is the repository
management software
 Several software now available under open
source license
 Comply with OAI metadata harvesting
protocol
 Released and publicly available
IR Software
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ARNO (Academic Research in Netherlands
Online), Tilburg University
http://www.uba.uva.nl/arno
 CDSware (CERN Document Server software,
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
http://cdsware.cern.ch/
I-Tor (Tools & Technologies for open
repositories), Netherlands
http://www.I-tor.org/en/toon
MyCore
http://www.mycore.de/engl/index.html
IR Software
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Dspace
- MIT and HP, Cambridge, MA, USA
- http://www.dspace.org
Eprints
- University of Southampton, U>K
- http://software.eprints.org
Fedora digital object repository management system
- University of Virginia, USA
- http://www.fedora.info/
What IR Software aim to do
-Capture
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and describe digital material into a workflow
Provide interface for online submission of research
material (intranet)
• Provide access to this material over the web
(metadata and/or full pub)
• Preserve digital material over long period of time
• Expose metadata through OAI-PMH protocol
– Default: Unqualified Dublin Core
– Other metadata standards
What an IR aim to do
• Capture and describe digital material using a
workflow
– Provide interface for online submission of research
material (intranet)
• Provide access to this material over the web
(metadata and/or full pub)
• Preserve digital material over long period of time
• Expose metadata through OAI-PMH protocol
– Default: Unqualified Dublin Core
– Other metadata standards
EPrints and DSpace
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Widely used IR software
Platform
– EPrints: Unix/ Linux/ Perl/ Apache/ MySQL/
XML/ HTML/
– DSpace: Unix/ Linux/ Java/ Tomcat or
Apache/ XML/ HTML/ Ant/ PostGreSQL
Imply software knowledge required for
installing, configuring, and
maintaining archives developed using these
packages.
IADL: How it operates
Tech Reports Pre-prints Journal Articles Presentation Thesis, etc
Deposit
Metadata +Full Pub)
Digital Repository
Access & Dissemination
NAL DRDO ISRO IISc IITs, Etc
Local Intranet
access
Metadata
OAI-PMH
Service
Provider
ICAST, NAL
Remote Internet
access
Key Features and
Functionality
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Registration of institutional users (authors)
- For document submission and other privileged use
-User authentication
- Profile setup
Document submission
- Authentication
- Assign metadata
- Upload document
- Grant license
Approval/moderation
- Submission (metadata, format, affiliation etc)
- Content approval (peer review)
Key features and Functionality
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Archiving
- Date stamping
- Unique/persistent identifier assignment
- Preservation support
- Indexing and storage
Dissemination
- Search/Browse
- OAI registration and compliance (metadata exposure)
- Rights management
Administration
-Administration communities, collections, users,groups
- Document formats, metadata
- Licenses, submission policies
- Preservation
COPYRIGHT ISSUES
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Berlin Declaration Act recognises the view that
community standards will continue to be important in
the enforcement of proper attribution and responsible
use of the published work
 The ROMEO project at Loughborough investigated
publishers’ attitudes to mounting of pre- and post-prints on
servers
 The SHERPA project at Nottingham has taken over and
augmented the ROMEO data
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http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Yellow publishers allow preprints but not postprints; blue
ones postprints but not preprints; green ones both; white
neither
ARCHIVAL ISSUES
Budapest Open Access Initiative
Two complementary strategies:
 Self-Archiving: Scholars should be able to deposit
their refereed journal articles in open electronic
archives which conform to Open Archives
Initiative standards
 Open-Access Journals: Journals will not charge
subscriptions or fees for online access. Instead,
they should look to other sources to fund peerreview and publication (e.g., publication charges)
IMPORTANT CASE STUDIES
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The ARNO project (Academic Research in the
Netherlands Online
 SPARC launched in 1998 by the US Association of
Research Libraries
 TARDiS (Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and
Disclosure U K)
 CDSWARE (CERN)
 DAEDALUS (Univ at Glasgow U K)
 DARE (Digital Academic Repositories Netherlands)
 FAIR (Funded by JISC)
 LEADERS (Linking EAD to Electronically
Retrievable Sources)
Important IRs (World over)
Australian National University
Aalborg University
Universitat Stuttgart
Lunds Universitet
National University of Ireland
University of Glasgow
California Digital Library
MIT
Universite de Montreal
Universitat Essen
Utrecht University
CERN
University of Bath
University of Nottingham
Caltech
Academy of Sciences, Belarus
Important IRs (India)
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IISc eprints ,
Bangalore(http://www.eprints.iisc.ernet.in)
 National Chemical laboratory (NCL), Pune
 National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL,
Bangalore (http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/)
NAL IR website
NAL IR website
THANK YOU
Poornima Narayana