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Increasing your impact
Preserving your research
Sarah L. Shreeves
IDEALS Coordinator
University of Illinois
Illinois
Digital
Environment for
Access to
Learning and
Scholarship
March 19, 2008
© 2007, Sarah L. Shreeves
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Outline
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What are the issues?
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What is the response?
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Taking a look at IDEALS
What is IDEALS?
Institutional digital repository for the scholarship and
research of the faculty, students, and staff of the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
•Dissemination
•Persistent Access
•Preservation
http://ideals.uiuc.edu/
A joint initiative between the University Library
and CITES with support from the Office of the Provost.
The Issues
(or why the University is investing in IDEALS)
Changing landscape of scholarly communication:
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What research can you access?
Who can access your research?
How quickly can your research be accessed?
Will your research make the biggest possible impact?
What can you do with your published research?
What about technical reports, data sets, and grey literature?
Growing need to pay attention to digital preservation issues:
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Will your research be available 10, 50, 100+ years into the
future?
Access
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Between 1986-2004 journal costs for
research libraries increased 273%*
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By contrast the CPI increased 73%
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Many journals (particularly STM) are only
available in bundles or in the ‘Big Deal’
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Many libraries are only licensing access to
electronic journals
* Association of Research Libraries
So what?
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Limited access to your published research
 Many smaller libraries cannot afford to access the range of
journals that the UIUC Library has
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Open access = Higher impact
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See http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
Funders are paying attention
 Increased interest in making published research (especially
federally funded research) publicly available
 NIH requirement to deposit into PubMed Central
 Federal Research Public Access Act (awaiting
reintroduction)
 Many UK funders are requiring open access (see
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php)
How quickly can research be
made available?
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Ellison (2007) study posits that faculty in top
econ departments are publishing less in
economics field journals because of a
slowdown in the submission to publication
process (among other factors)
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http://www.nber.org/papers/w13272
RePEc, SSRN, electronic only journals, and
working paper series provide quick
dissemination for research
Options for furthering
dissemination:
Publish in open access journals
(Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link
to the full texts of these articles)
AND / OR
Archive your research in institutional (IDEALS)
and/or disciplinary repositories
But can I archive published
material?
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Do you transfer copyright to the publisher?
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Often you are signing away:
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Right to distribute copies
Right to use copies in your classroom
Right to make derivative works
Right to archive the published copy into a disciplinary
or institutional repository
Examples:
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INFORMS
IEEE
Next time try to negotiate your
copyright transfer
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Ask if your publisher will agree to an author
amendment
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CIC Author Amendment http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/CenterForLibraryInitiati
ves/Archive/Report/CICAuthRtsFINAL16May07.pdf
Or do your own negotiation!
Many publishers allow
deposit as a standard
policy
Publisher pdf version immediate
Publisher pdf –
embargo of 12 – 24 months
Final manuscript version immediate
Final manuscript version –
embargo of 6 – 24 months
But many publishers allow
deposit anyway
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Final manuscript version or publisher pdf
version
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Check the Sherpa/RoMEO database:
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Also look at Journal Info Service:
http://jinfo.lub.lu.se/
IDEALS does NOT ask for copyright transfer!
Disciplinary repositories
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PubMed Central:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
arXiv.org: http://arxiv.org/
RePEc (Research papers in economics):
http://repec.org/
See OpenDOAR: http://www.opendoar.org/
IDEALS will….
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Help increase access to your published and
unpublished research – wide open to search engine spiders and
allow metadata to be included in other databases (like OAIster)
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Help increase the impact to your published and
unpublished research
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Give you a persistent, permanent URL for your
research
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Preserve your research for long term access and use
Demonstration
http://ideals.uiuc.edu/
A different way to view publication history
What will we take?
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Working papers and technical reports
Published articles where copyright allows
Manuscripts
Digital art
Master's theses
Dissertations
Best paper awards from students
Conference papers
Journals published on the UIUC campus
Faculty course-related output primarily of scholarly interest
Learning objects that represent substantive scholarly work
Organizational annual reports and newsletters that represent the intellectual
work happening within a unit
Data sets
Audio and visual materials
Any other form of research output that can be technically loaded to the
repository…
What type of materials?
Also audio and video
Grey literature and
unpublished material
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University Archives traditionally took paper
copies of report series and other ‘grey lit’ on
campus, but with shift to digital…
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Library has expertise in long term
preservation and providing access to material
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Provide systematic dissemination of grey lit
Data sets…
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New area for the Library, but we’re eager to explore
what services we can offer
Currently working with:
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25 years of vole demographics
Polar temperature data
XRay Crystallography data
Anthropology data
Agricultural data
Received a grant with Purdue and GSLIS to explore
data curation needs of faculty
Long Term Preservation for Use
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Commitment to long term preservation
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Three categories of support:
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http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/wiki/bin/view/IDEALS/PolicyDocs
Full
Intermediate
Basic
Working towards a certified “Trustworthy Digital
Repository”
IDEALS is not…
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A formal publishing system
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No peer review
A collaborative workspace
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Items going into IDEALS should be ready for
dissemination
Other services we offer or will
offer soon…
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Consultation on copyright issues
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Statistics on number of downloads (regular weekly
or monthly reports are coming soon…)
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Pilot service to deposit research into PubMed
Central and other ‘disciplinary’ repositories
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Beginning work on data curation issues
IDEALS Infrastructure
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DSpace open-source software (MIT & HP)
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Customizations/Localizations
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Java, PostgreSQL database, Tomcat web server
wide acceptance (200+ institutions, 45+ countries)
Persistent URLs (using CNRI Handle System)
OpenOffice.org format conversions (e.g. Word to PDF)
Bluestem NetID login
Server Infrastructure
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Managed by CITES System Management Group
Expandable 6TB SAN
Off-campus backups
For More Information
Sarah Shreeves
IDEALS Coordinator
[email protected]
217-244-3877
Tim Donohue
Technical Lead
[email protected]
217-333-4648
http://ideals.uiuc.edu/