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Developing Research Repositories - JISC Innovation Forum
Bill Hubbard
SHERPA and RSP Manager
The route
Open Access Mountain
The start of the journey . . .
Open Access
Budapest Open Access Initiative
“An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good . . .” • http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
Lofty principals - can we climb this far?
Why? Because its there?
Open access benefits • for authors• for researchers• for research processes• for institutions• for research funders• for public
Offers a sustainable basis for the future
Some people have gone there and seen it working
The Open Access landscape
Open Access - definitions• Open Access Journals• Open Access Repositories
Data Providers and Service Providers• Global repository network to underpin adoption• Author-led and innovative services to support use
Stakeholders• authors, researchers, institutions, funders, learned
societies, public, publishers . . .
The route: institutional repositories
The OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and access many repositories• subject-based portals or views• subject-based classification and search• institutional storage and support
Practical reasons• use institutional infrastructure• integration into work-flows and systems • support is close to academic users and contributors
Made a trail into the new area . . .
JISC FAIR programme, and many others . . .
GNU eprints, TARDIS, DAEDALUS, EThOS, VERSIONS, Repository Bridge, DRIVER, et al
Overseas and international initiatives
Advocacy and engagement
Policy development
Growth of OA Community
Conferences galore!
Voices of support
Institutional mandates
Funding mandates• RCUK
• Wellcome Trust
• Arthritis Research Campaign and more
Parliamentary Select Committee Report
European Commission• 'Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the
Scientific Publication Markets of Europe‘
• Petition - 22,000 signatures
NIH Mandate
Path graphic
Looking back down the path
Looking back down the path
Process of setting up repositories is ok
Systems works - put things in and get them out
Copyright was not the unbridgeable crevasse we feared . . .
Achieved regional, national, international support
OA academic approval at over 80%
but . . .
Repositories by continent
Repositories in Europe
Russell and 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
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
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
Difficulties and obstacles
The difficulties
A good case is not enough
The way across Copyright Crevasse was too narrow for authors’ comfort
The view from Base Camp was hard to shake• subject basis, quality control, plagiarism
Reluctance to leave well-trodden paths
The Search party didn’t turn up
The view from here is still too restricted
Authors want sherpas to carry the load
Obstacles and tricky conditions
Embargoes
Double-charge access becoming embedded
“Crevasse of Copyright” is still unsettling
Loss of focus within repositories
Metadata-only entries cloud the view
Author engagement cf approval
Next stage of the climb
After our review, re-quip ourselves for the next stage of the climb . . .
Where we are going - re-scoping
Teaching and learning
Professional support environments
Course administration
Communication environments
Preservation and true archives
Institutional choice - for most research-led institutions, a focus on research . . .
Where we are going - facilities
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
Virtual Research Environments
Web 2.0 - mash-ups and tagging
Where we are going - embedding
Institutional integration with . . .
Workflows
Repository as a set of services
Staffing and management
Funder mandate compliance
Information management & REF
Exploitation and outreach
Virtual research environments
Next steps
Mandates - support them! support compliance, integration, stakeholder involvement
Focus - choose a clear path
Metadata repositories - remember the advantage has to be for users, not statisticians
Engagement - academics support the idea: allow them to support the repository
Services - offer services that make life better!
NB - all this is people, processes, and politics, rather than technology
Assistance
RSP - www.rsp.ac.uk
Intute Repository Search - irs.ukoln.ac.uk
RoMEO - www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
JULIET - www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
OpenDOAR - www.opendoar.org and ~/search
The Depot - depot.edina.ac.uk
SHERPA - www.sherpa.ac.uk/update
BASE - digital.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php
DRIVER - www.driver-support.eu
UKCoRR - www.ukcorr.org
The view from the top
