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Developing and implementing an integrated system to support researchers: the St Andrews
experience
Managing Research: Smoothing the Way 27 Jan 2011
Janet AucockRepository Manager
Jackie ProvenRepository Support Officer
E-prints: the early days
Repository
• Full text• Public access• Copyright issues• Files and content• Bibliographic data quality
Publications database
• Research Assessment• Limited access• Reporting• Data gathering• Bibliographic data quality
Links with Research Expertise Database“To establish good communication and practice in centralised and coordinated development of both databases.”
Library
Business Improvements
Research Policy Office Library
Developing e-theses service“The success of the current service is very dependent on key partnerships which have been established between relevant agencies within the institution.”
The story so far• Digital Research Repository + Research Expertise database• Technical links between systems• Regular meetings between Library and data architect• Established relationship between Research Policy Office and
Library• Reporting to research steering group on RAE progress and e-
theses developments• Solid foundation for library involvement with CRIS procurement• Recognising need for robust system that fits existing infrastructure• Joint procurement with Aberdeen University• Shared vision, exchange of ideas
• Research Assessment the main (but not only) driver
Publications
Fed Out
Research
Information
System
REF, RCUK
SFC, HESA
HEI – Strategic
Planning
Public, Media Recognition / Impact
Industry / SME’s
Interface
Collaborations
Research Pools
Pulled In
Student
Records
Grants,
Projects, KT
Human
Resources
Finance
Manual
Input
Entered
Web of Science,
arXiv, PubMed…
Har
vest
ed
Full Text
Repository
Open Access
Link
ed
Bibtex, RefmanU
plo
ad
ed
Library knowledge and skills
Internal and external sources
External sources and links
Research Funding Office
Wellcome Trust Open Access fund
Pure Team
Pure demos to SchoolsPractical questions
Discussing School policy
Open Access debate
Visibility of data
Figure 2. The complex of AGME Y140F with ADP-β-D-mannose.
Joined-up thinking
An image of the atmospheric jet stream, obtained from an idealised computer simulation, but one using extraordinary resolution, far higher than ever used before. The computer methods have been developed in St Andrews, and there is a proposal under development to apply these highly efficient methods to markedly improve weather forecasting and climate modelling. Photo supplied by David Dritschel
Serendipity
Web presence
http://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/research.aspx#phdtheses
Collaboration
Supporting internal publishing
Where we are now• E-theses – content driven by regular deposits of new theses (181 in
2010)• Publications – full text more than doubled since launch of Pure• Funder mandates – procedures and points of communication
established• OJS – Pilot with Art History and Theology journals, with others
interested
Where we are now• CRIS provides the infrastructure• Research office provide direction and encouragement• Library provides integrated support• Still convinced a separate repository is right for us
– Emphasis on full text– Part of Open Access environment– Promoting discovery and reuse – library good at connecting users and content– Flexible content policy– Supports existing workflow for e-theses– Interaction with external services eg EThOS, IRIScotland, Avano– Library ‘face’ on research – repository integration with new discovery service
Where next?• Further streamlining of e-theses deposit process
• Possible integration with Pure.
• Appetite and culture now more suitable for a managed approach.
• Still need total senior management buy-in
• Insufficient resource to support Open Access mandate (yet), though becoming more attractive in light of financial constraints and changing business models in publishing
• More contacts with grants office, finance and admin staff in Schools
• Exploring links with grant applications
• Importing and linking funder data
• Measuring progress and establishing evidence of success
Images of St Andrews ©University of St AndrewsImages of people ©individuals and used with permission
Jackie Proven: [email protected]
Janet Aucock: [email protected]
