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Open Repository

Claire Bundy

Overview

• BioMed Central: who we are

• About Open Repository

• Is Open Repository right for you?

• Our Customers

• Demo

• Questions and answers

BioMed Central – who are we?

• Launched in 1999

• The world’s largest publisher of STM Open Access peer-reviewed journals

• We pioneered the Open Access Movement

• We provide immediate barrier-free access to 199 journals, 43 tracked by ISI and 59 with Impact Factors

• 281 member institutes in 35 countries

• Open Repository

Why have a repository?

• Centralised solution for institutes output

• Global access via service providers

• More exposure for the institute and researchers

• Persistent access & unique identifiers = Long-term preservation

• Wide range of content

• Comply with funding agencies & assessments

Obstacles to building a repository in-house

• Open source institutional repository software is free to acquire but expensive to implement

• Delays due to slow response times from over-burdened IT services

• Lack of personnel with the correct skills

• Projects often go on for much longer than necessary

• Other priorities can crop up unexpectedly and divert resources away from the repository project

In-house solution = Hidden Costs

Front end

Server

File storage

IT personnel

Back ups

Upgrades

● A hosted solution for building and maintaining a customized DSpace repository

● Simplest & quickest way for institutes to own a repository

● OR offers transparent and predictable pricing, from the open access specialists

● Enables organisations to collect, showcase and preserve scholarly output without any expertise needed by the institute

● Stores a variety of document types for internal material (dark archives) as well as publicly available documents

What is Open Repository?

Why DSpace?

• Most popular open source repository platform globally

• Vibrant open source development community

• Java-based, which fits with BioMed Central’s development environment

• Easy migration of repositories to other platforms

• Logical and flexible infrastructure using a hierarchy of communities and collections.

Hierarchical Structure

Institution

Community Community Community

Sub Community Sub Community

Collection Collection

Item Item Item

Metadata Bitstream

Collection Collection

Why outsource to OR

• Flexible pricing & service levels

• Cost-effective & rapid deployment from the OA experts

• Ownership & control retained by the customer

• No technical expertise/hardware needed from the institute

Hosted solution = Transparent Costs

Try before you buy

Rapid set up

Seamless upgrades

Predictable/lower costs

Technical support

What Open Repository Offers You

• Setup, maintenance & ongoing support

• Customisation & branding

• Enhanced researcher pages

• Import historical data with batch uploads

• Populating the repository-sword

• Sophisticated search functionalities

• Enhanced statistics

• External article linking

• Training for users & administrators

• Marketing & PR

What Open Repository Offers You

• Advanced document upload functionality

• Conversion to PDF and Open Office formats

• Data feeds from PubMed Central and other OA archives

• Social book marking tags

• Export to Endnote, RefMan & RefWork

• Embargo tool

• E-Theses submission form

• Toggle between multiple languages

• Try before you buy – FREE pilot

Available in Two Editions

Standard EnhancedStandard plus:

Rapid setup PDF and open office conversion

Hosting, maintenance and backup Institutional authentication integration

Technical and customer support Batch uploading

Reliable high-availability platform Datafeeds

Training Enhanced user interface customization

Who Already Uses Open Repository?

• University/Higher Education

Research Institutes

• Teaching Councils

• Museums

• International Charity/Humanitarian Aid Organisation

• National Health Service (Government)

• University Hospitals

This is the UI for the Athlone Institute of Technology as represented by their website, to keep in line with the Marketing & PR needs of the institute

What our customers have said about us…

“Open Repository provides a hosted solution that is quick and simple to set up, customizable to our needs and easy to use” Pat Simons, Bibliographic

and Technical Services Manager, Roehampton University

"Throughout the development process for this site, I have been most impressed by the support and professionalism provided by BioMed

Central's Open Repository team. They have been unfailingly helpful and cooperative and I believe the final product demonstrates excellent

quality." Tony Reid, Médecins Sans Frontières

“A very slick service (and product!).” Martin Myhill, Acting University library, University of Exeter

Thank you for your time!

claire.bundy@biomedcentral.com+44 203 192 2218

The institutional repository service from BioMed Central

• http://pilot.openrepository.com/ait/

• http://bibapp.org/features/

• http://bibapp.mbl.edu/groups/22-Woods_Hole_Oceanographic_Institution

• http://demo.openrepository.com/demo/handle/2384/68293/browse?type=title

• http://www.e-space.mmu.ac.uk/e-space/

• http://www.e-space.mmu.ac.uk/e-space/displaystats?handle=2173%2F808&submit_simple=View+Statistics

• http://www.openrepository.com/