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Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
UKCoRR Can!
UKCoRR membership meetingKingston UniversityFriday 14th August 2009
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
just before we start . . . where’s SHERPA?
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
SHERPA Partnership
News - Information - Investigation
SHERPA Services
RoMEO - JULIET - OpenDOAR
JISC ResearchCommunications
StrategyStrategy Development - Feedback - Dissemination
SHERPA Projects
RSP - DRIVERII - Depot - Intute RS - NECOBELAC
National Partner DRIVER
Confederation
University OA Services
R & D
OA Research, Surveys, Projects
Centre for Research
Communications
Activity Structure
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
UKCoRR -- where we have come from
• SHERPA – partners list
• SHERPA Plus– JISC support
• Identified a need and a role . . . • Website and email list• . . . getting going . . .
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
Last meeting University of Nottingham, Friday 23rd November 2007
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
. . . developments
• Bill Hubbard• Stephanie Meece• John Murtagh
• Talat Chaudhri• Miggie Pickton• Les Carr• . . . and others!
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
Vision
• UKCoRR has a vision of the work of repository management as a professionally recognised and supported role within UK research institutions.
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
Mission
• UKCoRR is an independent body for repository managers, administrators and staff in the UK that
• Promotes repository management as a recognised and respected profession
• Provides a forum for discussion and exchange of experience
• Represents the views and concerns of those who work with repositories in organisational, policy and strategic development
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
UKCoRR -- where we are
• Moved beyond establishment - now at the start of real development
• Libraries are changing– RIN - Mind the Skills Gap
• Universities are changing• Research communication is changing• Funding is changing - private and especially
public• Repositories be called on for many solutions• . . . so we will be called on to provide them!
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
National scene
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
UK Map - Leeds Met as ship!
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
International scene
• DRIVER - COAR• NECOBELAC• Australia• India• USA• Africa
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
Boloka Map
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
Africa• Boloka, the Repository of the North-West University, South
Africa - “Global”? Since November last year . . .
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
Open Access Repositories
• Bring the world to your door• Services will come and grow and go or some
may become permanent . . . • But the repository remains . . .
• Service get the notice, but repositories are the key
• We must retain the ability to be simple - simple access, simple metadata - simply “open”
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
What are our challenges?
• Copyright• Mandates - institutional and funders• Cultural change• Workflows• Management within institutions• Complex objects• Staffing levels• Integration - systems, staff, management• REF
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
What do we do back in the office?
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
What UKCoRR can do
• Peer support and networking• Identify needs
– support– training– information
• Identify good practice - and share it!• Act as a voice for you
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
• Bill Hubbard• bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk
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