Transcript En Route to Open Access Scholarship: Capitalising on Institutional Repositories ALISS Christmas Special: Libraries and Open Access Scholarship British Library Dec 11 2006 Jessie M.N.

En Route to Open Access
Scholarship: Capitalising on
Institutional Repositories
ALISS Christmas Special: Libraries and Open Access Scholarship
British Library
Dec 11 2006
Jessie M.N. Hey
School of Electronics and Computer Science and University of Southampton
Libraries
University of Southampton, UK
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk
Outline: areas to explore
• Open Access Scholarship - where we
are coming from
• Some significant current developments
• Where we are going
• A personal journey as illustration
• Institutional Repositories - challenges
and opportunities for information
workers
JISC has been proactive in supporting
Open Access in the UK through the FAIR
programme and follow on funding
• And funded advocacy materials – new version Sept 2006:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/pub_openaccess_v2.aspx
From the briefing paper: What
Open Access is
The Open Access research literature is
composed of free, online copies of peerreviewed journal articles and conference
papers as well as technical reports,
theses and working papers.
In most cases there are no licensing
restrictions on their use by readers.
They can therefore be used freely for
research, teaching and other purposes.
75% of publishers on list allow some form of
self-archiving – we’ll hear more on versions later
New option for encouraging your authors to
improve their agreement with publishers Nov 17,
2006 (Dutch/English collaboration)
How is Open Access provided?
Open Access can be provided by various means.
A researcher can place a copy of each article in an Open Access
archive or repository
or can publish articles in Open Access journals.
In addition, a researcher may place a copy of each article on a
personal or departmental website.
Whilst all three routes to Open Access ensure that far more users
can access such articles than if they were hidden away in
subscription-based journals, the first two constitute much more
systematic and organised approaches than the third and
maximise the chance of other researchers locating and reading
articles.
Now nearly 2500 OA journals – and
more experiments by publishers but a
long way to go……..
36 journals added in last 30
days
DOAJ additions include a range of
countries and languages
•Socio-logos : Revue publiée par
l'Association Française de Sociologie
•ISSN: 19506724
•Subject: Sociology
•Publisher: Association Française de
Sociologie
•Language: French
•Keywords: sociology, methodology
•Start year: 2006
•Revista Chilena de Derecho
•ISSN: 07160747
•Subject: Law
•Publisher: Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Chile
•Language: Spanish
•Keywords: law, jurisprudence
•Start year: 2006
•Undercurrent
•ISSN: 17120934
•Subject: Economics
•Publisher: Undercurrent
•Language: English, French
•Keywords: development studies,
interdisciplinary
•Start year: 2004
•Revista de Economia
•ISSN: 05565782
•Subject: Economics
•Publisher: Universidade federal do Paraná
•Language: Portuguese, English, Spanish
•Keywords: economics, economic theory,
economic development
•Start year: 1999
•(Canadian Undergraduate Journal of
Development Studies)
The IR alternative: from esoteric knowledge
to a real institutional research repository
12th anniversary of Stevan Harnad’s ‘Subversive Proposal’ leading to the open
access vision for scholarly material
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See also Harnad, S. and Hey, J. M. N. (1995) Esoteric Knowledge: the
Scholar and Scholarly Publishing on the Net. In Proceedings of Networking
and the Future of Libraries 2: Managing the Intellectual Record,
Proceedings of an International Conference, Bath, 19-21 April 1995, 110-16.
Dempsey, L., Law, D. and Mowlat, I., Eds.
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The vocabulary has moved on… but many journals are still becoming more
and more expensive
the work of researchers in our own institution is still often
unavailable to us ……and we also get emails from across the
world when we haven’t yet got the full text…. but that’s incentive to
produce it
Now becoming a reality: a national and
international development of IRs
• The broad vision reflecting the individual repositories (JISC
Inform no. 8)
Now at stage of RAE integration on our route map
with the University of Southampton Repository
• Changes in the external environment were
anticipated to play a vital role in the next
stage of embedding the routine of selfarchiving full text in the research recording
process.
• Lets look further…..
RCUK position paper on access to
research outputs June 2006
Journal articles and conference
papers in an acceptable repository
• Self-archiving
– 4. Research councils agree that their funded researchers should,
where required to do so, deposit the outputs from research councils
funded research in an acceptable repository as designated by the
individual research council. This requirement will be effective from
the time indicated in the guidance from the individual research
council, This guidance will be published on individual Research
Council websites and will, where appropriate, require funded
researchers to:
• Personally deposit, or otherwise ensure the deposit of, a copy
of any resultant articles published in journals or conference
proceedings, in an appropriate repository, as designated by the
individual research council.
• Wherever possible, personally deposit, or otherwise ensure the
deposit of, the bibliographical metadata relating to such
articles, including a link to the publisher’s website, at or around
the time of publication.
Research Funders’ Open Access Policies – we
now have Romeo and Juliet to support us
Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC) Open Access Policy 2006
Impact on IRs?
• Requests deposit in ESRC awards and outputs
repository for articles and conference proceedings
* Deposit encouraged in institutional and other
appropriate repositories
• Will this make it easier or more complicated for IRs??
• More complex deposit route – librarians need to think
of best way to ensure metadata plus full text or plus
link in the IR
Route map to Open Access from TARDis
project – making steady progress
around the circle
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IRs as the core of assessment:
IRRA project workflow
Types of Institutional
Research Repository evolving
• TARDis/Southampton model:
publications database plus full text
where possible – representing all
research
• Full text only model: not comprehensive
but representing Open Access research
eg Loughborough – but Loughborough
now has some restricted access papers
Trying to keep it simple for the author…
• Publications databases and fulltext databases:
• In Australia reporting of publications is routine so experiments have
taken place with integrating their specific processes
• Woodland, Julie and Ng, Joanne (2006) "Too many systems, too little
time":integrating an eprint repository into a University publications
system, in VALA 2006 13th Biennial Conference and Exhibition, Crown
Towers Melbourne, Australia, 8 - 10 February 2006. Victorian
Association for Library Automation, Melbourne, Australia.
• http://espace.lis.curtin.edu.au/archive/00000618/
• The Netherlands has also had to look at its national reporting systems
and its DAREnet institutional repositories
• (DAREnet harvests 97893 digital records from the Institutional
repositories of sixteen institutes)
Cream of Science: a shining example from the
Netherlands (60% fulltext) – librarians a key part
Subject archives vary in philosophy and
shape like IRs
A pioneer full-text archive - almost 400,000 e-prints since 1991 –
now Physics, Maths, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology
arXiv – an active archive
• Statistics to die for!
IDEAS (RePEc) – bibliographic
plus – a broader concept
Economics volunteer activity also inspiring over 425,000 items of research with over 325,000
available online (but not necessarily OA)
• Access statistics for RePEc. The worlds largest collection of online
Economics Working Papers, Journal Articles and Software.
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543,597 File Downloads and 2,099,425 Abstract Views in November 2006
20,429,095 File Downloads and 99,654,529 Abstract Views since January 1998
RePEc: added value services for the
community of authors: lessons for IRs
Recent news: Australia
• Australia's Research Quality Framework
(RQF) has been recommended for
adoption by the Australian government,
October 2006
• Implies: every university will have to
have an IR to hold the full-text of
Research Outputs. About half already
do.
Developing countries – 80%
world’s population
• Workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access,
Bangalore, November 2-3, 2006
• led to the excellent National Open Access Policy for Developing
Countries
• For articles based on public funding and published in peerreviewed journals, the Bangalore model policy would
1) require immediate deposit in an OA repository
2) encourage immediate OA for the deposited articles
3) encourage publishing in a suitable OA journal where one exists
• Actions are already under way to persuade governments to
adopt it
ROARMAP (Registry of Open
Access Repository Material
Archiving Policies)
• http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
• Too many for one screenfull now
As we might expect the Australian Research Council
has been added this month
• 1.4.5.3. The ARC therefore encourages researchers to consider
the benefits of depositing their data and any publications arising
from a research project in an appropriate subject and/or
institutional repository wherever such a repository is available to
the researcher(s). If a researcher is not intending to deposit the
data from a project in a repository within a six-month period,
he/she should include the reasons in the project's Final Report.
Any research outputs that have been or will be deposited in
appropriate repositories should be identified in the Final Report.
• Added by: Malcolm Gillies (Chair, National Scholarly
Communication Forum) gilliesm AT usq.edu.au on 06 Dec 2006
• NB data is increasingly included by funders
Adding value - promoting a working paper in the
IR and in the research centre – process set up
by librarian
Working papers exported automatically
to the Research Centre – win-win
Next stages: richer preserved
‘joined up’ repositories
• CLADDIER http://proj.badc.rl.ac.uk/claddier project exploring
joining up data in environmental databases e.g. British
Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) to the Institutional Repository
• PRESERV project http://preserv.eprints.org/
enabling long term access to materials in Institutional
Repositories
And hopefully more emphasis on joining up in less scientific areas
in next round of funding
But it will be a mixed economy: Open Access Journals, IRs and
subject repositories to keep on top of and work together
Current Information Strategy Decisions
– e.g. whose responsibility? University,
regional subject, national?
• A variety of repositories developing at Southampton – vision of all
intellectual assets
• Do they need to join up at this level?
• Each has their own wider context and depositor choices
• Research Outputs - University of Southampton Research Repository (ePrints Soton)
• eCrystals - Southampton (archive for Crystal Structures generated by
the Southampton Chemical Crystallography Group and the EPSRC UK
National Crystallography Service)
• CLARe - for online learning and teaching material (Southampton and
collaborators) – makes research paper metadata seem easy!
(Now looking at contextual metadata in detail in MURLLO project)
Thinking ahead
• Institutional repositories are here to stay and will
broaden organically
• Building on research – looking to wider scholarship
visibility, and ideally open access, goal
• Building more bridges through the research and
information retrieval chain
• Libraries are currently involved but librarians must be
proactive and collaborate to be part of it
• Essential to keep up with external developments they can turn your world upside down
• Capitalise on your professional skills!
For further information
And thank you
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Jessie Hey
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Wendy White
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