Transcript The Repositories Landscape and the RSP MIMAS Open Forum Bill Hubbard 9th July 2008

The Repositories Landscape
and the RSP
MIMAS Open Forum
Bill Hubbard
9th July 2008
The Open Access landscape
Open Access Journals
Open Access Repositories
Repositories work alongside traditional and OA
publication models
Offer Open Access benefits
Offer additional benefits for authors,
researchers, institutions, research funders and
research process
Why institutional repositories?
Practical reasons
• use institutional infrastructure
• integration into work-flows and systems
• support is close to academic users and contributors
The OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to
search and access many repositories
• subject-based portals or views
• institutional storage and support
Repositories
Institutions have repositories
• open to institution’s academics
Networks of repositories
• SHERPA, DARENet, ARROW - country networks
• DRIVER - European network
Some specific subject repositories
• arXiv - 482,478 items
• UKPMC - 948,500 full-text articles
• AgentLink Publications Clearinghouse - 1403 items
Rise of Repositories
Directory of repositories - OpenDOAR
• www.opendoar.org
• 1157 open access repositories
• started registration in 2006 . . .
200 added in 2007
. . . and nearly 200 added in first half 2008
81% are institutional
Repositories by Continent
European Repositories
Repositories in Russell & 1994 Groups
University of Bath
Birkbeck
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge
Cardiff University
University of Durham
University of East Anglia
University of Edinburgh
( University of Essex )
University of Exeter
University of Glasgow
Goldsmiths
Imperial College
King's College London
Lancaster University
University of Leeds
University of Leicester
University of Liverpool
Loughborough University
LSE
University of Manchester
University of Newcastle
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
Queen Mary
Queen’s University
( University of Reading )
Royal Holloway
University of St Andrews
University of Sheffield
SOAS
University of Southampton
University of Surrey
University of Sussex
University of Warwick
UCL
University of York
Repository content
Postprints
Preprints
Datasets
Learning objects
Videos
Sound files
Theses
Dissertations
Royalty publications
Conference papers
Technical reports
Grey literature
linkage between these objects
Institutional repository - usage
Exposure for harvesting . . .
Linkage to departmental pages
Linkage to personal pages - career logs
RAE/REF - citation and usage analyses
Beyond pdf - text and data-mining
Overlay journals
Virtual Research Environments
Web 2.0 - mash-ups and tagging
Assistance - examples
RSP - www.rsp.ac.uk
Intute Repository Search - irs.ukoln.ac.uk
The Depot - depot.edina.ac.uk
SHERPA - www.sherpa.ac.uk
OpenDOAR - www.opendoar.org and ~/search
RoMEO - www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
JULIET - www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
BASE - digital.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php
DRIVER - www.driver-support.eu
UKCoRR - www.ukcorr.org
RSP - Repositories Support Project
Website - www.rsp.ac.uk
Briefing Papers
• Repository Managers - Senior Managers - Technical
Outreach Programme
• Professional Briefing Series - Workshops - Surgeries
• Summer and Winter Schools
• Events
Support Programme
• Consultancy visits
• [email protected]
• 0845 257 6860
Bill Hubbard
[email protected]