Transcript The library as a virtual research environment

EASE Workshop "Two Roads to Open Access"
Open Access Repositories
in practice
Bill Hubbard
SHERPA Manager
University of Nottingham
Open Access Repositories
 What are they?
 What are they to you?
Institutional repositories
 “Digital collections that preserve and provide access
the the intellectual output of an institution.”*
 Encouraging wider use of open access information
assets
 May contain a variety of digital objects
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e-prints,
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Open Access for the researcher
 Wide dissemination
– papers more visible
– cited more
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Rapid dissemination
Ease of access
Cross-searchable
Value added services
– hit counts on papers
– personalised publications lists
– citation analyses
publication & deposition
Author writes paper
pre-print
Submits to journal
Deposits in e-print
repository
Paper refereed
Revised by author
post-print
Author submits final version
Published in journal
published
version
Other benefits
 For the institution
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facilitates use and re-use of the information assets
raises profile and prestige of institution
manages institutional information assets - RAE
long-term cost savings
 For the research community
– ‘frees up’ the communication process
– avoids unnecessary duplication
Benefits for society in general
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Publicly-funded research publicly available
Public understanding of science
Knowledge transfer
Health and social services
Culture
Repository basis
 Institutional repositories combined with locationspecific or subject-based search services
 Practical reasons
– use institutional infrastructure
– integration into work-flows and systems
– support is close to academic users and contributors
 OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and
access many repositories
– subject-based portals or views
– subject-based classification and search
Repository content
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Preprints
Postprints
Datasets
Learning objects
Videos
Sound files
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 linkage between these objects
Theses
Dissertations
Royalty publications
Conference papers
Conference organisation
Grey literature
Repository use
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Access to material
Citation analysis
Overlay journals
Review projects
Evidence based work
Data-mining
Cross-institutional research
group virtual research
environments
 . . . Services built on top
 RAE-like submissions,
activities and
management
 Archival storage
 “Shop-windows”
 Facilitate industrial links
 Career-long personalised
work spaces
Russell Group
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University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge
Cardiff University
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
Imperial College
King's College London
University of Leeds
University of Liverpool
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LSE
University of Manchester
University of Newcastle
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
University of Sheffield
University of Southampton
University of Warwick
University College London
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SHERPA
 SHERPA - an outcome of JISC's strategy & support
 Facilitated establishment and development of
repositories in partner institutions
 Examined issues for repository growth
SHERPA Partners
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University of Nottingham
London LEAP Consortium
University of Birmingham
– Birkbeck College
University of Bristol
– Goldsmiths College
University of Cambridge
– Imperial College
University of Durham
– Institute of Cancer
Research
University of Edinburgh
– Kings College
University of Glasgow
– London School of
London LEAP Consortium
Economics and Political
University of Newcastle
Science (LSE)
University of Oxford
– Royal Holloway
White Rose Partnership
– Queen Mary
The British Library
Arts & Humanities Data Service
– School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS)
– School of Pharmacy
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– University College,
London (UCL)
White Rose Partnership
– University of Leeds
– University of Sheffield
– University of York
SHERPA - current projects
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SHERPA Plus
OpenDOAR
SHERPA/RoMEO
SHERPA DP
PROSPERO
RDN IR Search Service
DRIVER
EThOS
MIDESS, IRIS, VERSIONS, SPECTRa and StORe
SHERPA - practical outcomes
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Establishing an archive, individual or consortium
Basic technical needs
Basic costs
Populating an archive
Copyright
Advocacy & changing working habits
Mounting material
Maintenance
Preservation
Concerns
Academic concerns
 Subject base more natural ?
– institutional infrastructure, view by subject
 Quality control ?
– peer-review clearly labelled
 Plagiarism
– old problem - and easier to detect
 “I already have my papers on my website . . . “
– unstructured for RAE, access, search, preservation
 Threat to journals?
– evidence shows co-existence possible - but in the future . . . ?
Barriers to adoption
 Copyright restrictions
– approx.. 93% (of Nottingham’s) journals allow their authors
to archive
 Embargoes
– defines relationship of publisher to research
 Cultural barriers to adoption
 Authors are willing to use repositories
– 79% would deposit willingly if required to do so
 Deposition policies are key
Repositories are spreading because . . .
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Give easy access
Give rapid access
Give long-term access
Increase readership and use of material
They offer advantages to academics
They offer advantages to institutions
They offer advantages to research funders
They offer new ways for information to be linked and
used
Futures
 10 years - what changes are coming down the track
and what responses are needed?
 What is inside your control and what is outside?
 Irrespective of repositories, author-side charges,
open access - what will develop?
 Developments in the web and ICT alone will produce
substantial change . . .
 Some themes . . .
Future themes
 Journals - what is happening now and what will
develop in the future?
– subscriptions, commercial pressures, staffing . . .
 Academics & IT - what will people expect from IT?
– access, speed, integration . . .
 Research funding and processes - how is research
changing?
– what stakeholders are involved and what do they want? . . .
 How will this effect current publishing models?
 How will this effect open access and repositories?
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