INORMS Congress

Liverpool June 2008

Open Access Publishing, Putting it into Practice

Session 607

Bill Hubbard

SHERPA Manager

University of Nottingham

Building Repositories

Routes to Open Access

Δ Open Access JournalsΔ Open Access Repositories

Δ Repositories work alongside traditional and OA publication models

Δ Offer Open Access benefits Δ Offer additional benefits for authors,

researchers, institutions, research funders and research process

Publication and deposition

Author writes paper

Submits to journal

Paper refereed

Revised by author

Author submits final version

Published in journal

Deposit in e-print repository

pre-print

post-print

published version

Repositories

Δ Institutions have repositories– open to institution’s academics

Δ Networks of repositories– SHERPA, DARENet, ARROW - country networks– DRIVER - European network

Δ Some specific subject repositories– arXiv - 482,478 items– UKPMC - 948,500 full-text articles – AgentLink Publications Clearinghouse - 1403 items

Why institutional repositories?

Δ Practical reasons– use institutional infrastructure– integration into work-flows and systems – support is close to academic users and contributors

Δ The OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and access many repositories– subject-based portals or views– institutional storage and support

Rise of Repositories

Δ Directory of repositories - OpenDOAR– www.opendoar.org – 1157 open access repositories– started registration in 2006 . . .

Δ 200 added in 2007Δ . . . and nearly 200 added in first half 2008Δ 81% are institutional

Repositories by Continent

European Repositories

Repositories in Russell & 1994 Groups

Δ University of BathΔ BirkbeckΔ University of BirminghamΔ University of BristolΔ University of CambridgeΔ Cardiff UniversityΔ University of DurhamΔ University of East AngliaΔ University of EdinburghΔ ( University of Essex )Δ University of ExeterΔ University of GlasgowΔ Goldsmiths

Δ Queen’s UniversityΔ ( University of Reading )Δ Royal HollowayΔ University of St AndrewsΔ University of SheffieldΔ SOASΔ University of SouthamptonΔ University of SurreyΔ University of SussexΔ University of WarwickΔ UCLΔ University of York

Δ Imperial CollegeΔ King's College LondonΔ Lancaster UniversityΔ University of LeedsΔ University of LeicesterΔ University of LiverpoolΔ Loughborough UniversityΔ LSEΔ University of ManchesterΔ University of NewcastleΔ University of NottinghamΔ University of OxfordΔ Queen Mary

Repository content

Δ PostprintsΔ PreprintsΔ DatasetsΔ Learning objectsΔ VideosΔ Sound files

Δ linkage between these objects

Δ ThesesΔ DissertationsΔ Royalty publicationsΔ Conference papersΔ Technical reportsΔ Grey literature

Institutional repository - usage

Δ Exposure for harvesting . . . Δ Linkage to departmental pagesΔ Linkage to personal pages - career logsΔ RAE/REF - citation and usage analysesΔ Beyond pdf - text and data-miningΔ Overlay journalsΔ Virtual Research EnvironmentsΔ Web 2.0 - mash-ups and tagging

Expanded research support . . .

Δ Researchers’ needsΔ Institutional goalsΔ Researchers’ and institutional working practicesΔ Research communicationΔ Research itselfΔ Research processΔ Research assessment

Building repositories

Δ Not primarily a technical challenge– free software or commercial hosting– technical advice and support available– (relatively) simple set-up

Δ Challenges are in cultural, policy and procedural change within institutions and research communities

Δ Academics generally supportiveΔ Key is change management

Assistance - examples

Δ SHERPA - www.sherpa.ac.uk

Δ RoMEO - www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

Δ JULIET - www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet

Δ OpenDOAR - www.opendoar.org and ~/search

Δ RSP - www.rsp.ac.uk

Δ The Depot - depot.edina.ac.uk

Δ Intute Repository Search - irs.ukoln.ac.uk

Δ BASE - digital.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php

Δ DRIVER - www.driver-support.eu

Δ UKCoRR - www.ukcorr.org

Δ Define intended purpose and servicesΔ Engage stakeholdersΔ Establish repositoryΔ Advocacy and cultural change programmeΔ Develop policies to support mandates and

internal targets to show support to stakeholdersΔ Integrate into institutional information strategy,

information environment and institutional services

Policy, process and practicality

www.sherpa.ac.uk

bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk

SHERPA Partners

– University of Nottingham – University of Birmingham – University of Bristol – University of Cambridge – University of Durham – University of Edinburgh – University of Glasgow – London LEAP Consortium – University of Newcastle – University of Oxford – White Rose Partnership – The British Library– AHDS

London LEAP – Birkbeck College – Goldsmiths College – Imperial College – Institute of Cancer

Research – Kings College – LSE– Royal Holloway – Queen Mary – SOAS– School of Pharmacy

(SoP)– UCL

White Rose Partnership – University of Leeds – University of Sheffield – University of York

Affiliates– Trinity College Dublin – Cranfield University – University of Exeter – University of Leicester – University of Liverpool – Sheffield Hallam University – University of St Andrews – CCLRC