Transcript Nick Sheppard Repository Development Officer 125 Online Office James Graham Building Headingley [email protected] Ext: 24731 Blog: http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/

Nick Sheppard
Repository Development Officer
125 Online Office
James Graham Building
Headingley
[email protected]
Ext: 24731
Blog: http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/
Institutional Repository
Digital collection capturing and
preserving the intellectual output of a
single or multi-university community
Definition adapted from SPARC (2002)
Session Aims
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The project
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Implementing an Institutional Repository for Leeds
Metropolitan University
Open Access – An overview
Institutional Repositories
Demonstration of a live IR
Benefits of OA and IRs
Objections to OA and IRs
How you can contribute
A discussion forum
Project Staff
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Project Director
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Project Manager
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Repository Development Officer
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Copyright Clearance Officer
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Data Ingest and Enrichment Officer
TBA
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Key members of academic and
TBA
research community
Jo Norry
Wendy Luker
Nick Sheppard
Rachel Thornton
An Institutional Repository
for Leeds Met - Background
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Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee)
JISC’s “Start-Up and Enhancement Projects” (SUE)
March 2009
An institutional needs analysis
A set of priorities for repository content
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Open Access research repository
Assessment, learning and teaching repository
Showcase for students’ work
Digital images of heritage collections
A managed environment for the deposit of internal
documents
Where are we?
Market analysis of software
 Software identified
 Currently being implemented
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Timeline
 Commencement of advocacy campaign
 Work with chosen software provider to appropriately customise
software
 Workflows (processes) defined
 Populated with a representative body of initial content
 Published, peer-reviewed research output
 Embedded in workflows of relevant sections of the University
The Role of the
Development Officer
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Technical/administrative/advocacy
Select appropriate software
Liaise with provider to customise and test
software
Implement and administer the Repository
Establish workflows for ingest of content
Advocacy to the University community to
encourage awareness, understanding and use of
the repository
Establish the Leeds Met repository as a standard
element of the workflow of those generating
research outputs
Open Access
“Open Access (OA) means immediate, free
and unrestricted access to digital scholarly
material.”
“OA was made possible by the advent of
the internet.”
Peter Suber
Open Access
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The Open Access journal
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So called “Gold route” to OA
Difficulty in establishing viable cost recovery model (eg. Authorinstitution pays)
Biomed Central
DOAJ currently holds records of 2834 free, full text, quality controlled
scientific and scholarly journals
Self-Archiving
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So called “Green route” to OA
Personal web pages
Subject based repository
• arXiv.org
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Institutional Repository
Not mutually exclusive
Self-Archiving
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Increasingly journal publishers adapting formal
policies on self-archiving
SHERPA RoMEO project – University of
Nottingham
Database of self-archiving policy by journal
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Colour coded
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Green – can archive pre-print and post print
Blue – can archive post-print
Yellow – can archive pre-print
White – archiving not formally supported
Entry for each publisher also lists conditions or
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Embargo
Institutional Repositories
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Most widely used technology for self-archiving
The Directory of Open Access Repositories
(openDOAR) currently lists 120 repositories in
the UK
The majority (90) are institutional repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/index.html
A live example:
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
The majority (up to 80%) of hits come from
Search Engines
What are the benefits of an
OA IR?
“Removing access barriers”…“will
accelerate research, enrich education,
share the learning of the rich with the poor
and the poor with the rich, make this
literature as useful as it can be, and lay the
foundation for uniting humanity in a
common intellectual conversation and quest
for knowledge.”
Budapest Open Access Initiative 2001
What are the benefits of an
OA IR?
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For the Information Professional
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Scholarly publishing crisis
(1970’s/1980’s)
• High cost
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For the teacher/student
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All have access to key resources
No barriers to access
For the academic
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Career advancement
Research impact
Evidence that OA is cited earlier and more often than
non-OA
What are the benefits of an
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For the Institution
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A showcase to the world
Funding opportunities
For the Tax payer
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Publicly funded research should be publicly available
• Mandates by funding bodies
• JISC/Wellcome Trust/Arts and Humanities Research
Council
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For funding bodies
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Increases return on investment
Results more widely available and more useful
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OA IR?
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OA represents the democratisation of
knowledge
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In interests of the first as well as developing
world
Research is 'missing' to the international
knowledge base
Incomplete pictures of global science
Particularly environmental and development
issues
Yiotis 2005
What are the benefits of an
OA IR?
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Statistics
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Links
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to related material
to data resources
author biographies/CVs
Multimedia
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number of hits
number of full downloads
podcasts (eg. author interview)
video
Citation tracking
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who and why?
Benchmarking Consortium
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University of Derby – currently no repository
University of Huddersfield – Repository in use
Liverpool John Moores – Repository in use
University of Liverpool – Pilot project; full rollout
2008
University of Salford – Repository under
development
Staffordshire University – Repository under
development
Some Objections
 Self-archiving is an amateur form of
publishing
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Complement not replace existing publishing paradigm
ACCESS to research
Many predict a decreased role for
publishers if OA becomes dominant
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Practise of putting authors’ papers into repositories has
so far had little impact on subscription rates (Kingsley,
2008)
May be an advantage to publishers to allow authors to
post their preprints and then attract the readers to the
final edited version at their journal
Some Objections
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Quality Control/Peer Review
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Peer-review medium independent; can be
made more efficient within a fully realised
Open Access model
Need not be any ambiguity relating to selfarchived preprints as long as they are clearly
identifiable as such
Digital preservation
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Issue not restricted to IRs
Current best practice
Some Objections
 Intellectual Property and Copyright
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complicated area and the industry is
still adapting
You may have more!
Where do you come in?
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Academic Librarians
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Source of information
• Disciplinary differences
• arxiv.org
Communication channel
 Elicit opinion
 Identify “champions”
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Where do you come in?
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Information Officers
Advocates
 Demonstrators
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• Students
• Staff
• Other prospective users of the repository
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Volunteers
• Continued Professional Development
• More information later in the project
In Summary
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Initial project focus is an Open Access research
repository
Future diversification for changing institutional needs
The benefits of IRs are considerable for
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researchers
information professionals
institutions
the public
The Whole World!
IRs are rapidly becoming an integral part of Universities’
infrastructure
The project needs your support
References/Further
Information
 http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories
 http://www.jisc.ac.uk
 http://www.sparceurope.org/
 Peter Suber’s Open Access Overview
Thank you!