Open Access - Where are we so far?

Bill Hubbard

SHERPA Project Manager

University of Nottingham

Open Access

Giving anyone online free, unrestricted access to research information

Increases citations and use for authors Increases profile for institutions

Publically funded research made publically available

Open Access Repositories Open Access Journals

Institutional Repositories

Take in articles from staff in any subject-discipline Simple - very simple - metadata created Metadata harvested from repositories worldwide User searches metadata records to locate specific

article

Rapid, global, “free” dissemination

Building the network

Repositories need to be in place Procedures for filling them defined Legal and IPR issues clarified Publicity and advocacy to *all* stakeholders Services - like search - built on top

Initiatives and Policies

JISC FAIR programme JISC Digital Repositories Programme OSI initiatives Berlin Declaration Scottish Open Access Declaration House of Commons Select Committee NIH policy Welcome Trust Policy RCUK policy

Responses

Academics– favourable reaction, but few archiving all their work

Administrators– cautiously favourable, with growing enthusiasm– further use - eg RAE

Publishers - – ALPSP, Publishers Association - concerns for publishers’

stability – Embargoes – “Open Choice”, hybrids, attempts at redefinition, et al

Libraries . . .

Implications

What time-scale are we looking at? Libraries will continue to adopt a decentralised service Journals are not going to disappear Interlibrary loan may diminish for some items RAE will be affected Books largely unaffected - by this, anyway Overall - who is likely to do the work? Curation and provision of information will remain, with

new developments

How we are involved

Repositories in the University– Nottingham EPrints - http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/– Nottingham ETheses - http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk/– Nottingham MLPA - http://mlpa.nottingham.ac.uk/

Departmental web-sites Advocacy and information Nottingham’s involvement with various projects

Projects involving Nottingham

SHERPA SHERPA Plus SHERPA DP SHERPA/RoMEO Knowledge Bank OpenDOAR EThOS IRS potential projects DRIVER and PLANET

SHERPA partners & repositories

Birkbeck Birmingham Bristol British Library Cambridge Durham Edinburgh

Glasgow Imperial Leeds LSE Kings College Newcastle Nottingham

Oxford Royal Holloway Sheffield SOAS UCL York AHDS

SHERPA - practical outcomes

establishing an archive populating an archive copyright advocacy & changing working habits mounting material maintenance preservation concerns . . .

SHERPA Plus

2 year project to July 2007 for national support advocacy strategies and material for the further

population of existing repositories resources, information and advice for all institutions

wanting to establish repositories support for repository-level, institutional and national

policy development review and analysis of extending repository holdings

with datasets, multimedia, grey literature, learning objects and other content types

SHERPA Plus

RepositoryDevelopment

Support

Advocacy

Resources

PopulationExtension

Establishment

Policies

Strategies

Analysis Information

Representation

SHERPA DP

2 year project to December 2006 use OAIS model to develop a persistent preservation

environment for SHERPA explore use of METS as metadata framework protocols for a working preservation service extend the storage layer of repository software with

Open Source extensions “Digital Preservation User Guide”

SHERPA/RoMEO

Provides global service (and needs continual updating) Development and Knowledge Bank . . . www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

OpenDOAR

18 month project to August 2006 survey of Open Access Repositories registry of Open Access Repositories for third party service providers . . . for end users . . .

EThOS

Major national project Universities of Glasgow, Cranfield, Birmingham,

Warwick, Southampton, Edinburgh, Robert Gordon; British Library, National Library of Wales, SHERPA

Developing the British Library’s theses service Examining centralised and distributed theses

provision

Other projects . . .

IRS DRIVER PLANET

Summary

Open Access initiatives now have good momentum Recognition at senior levels Policy development now happening Publishers still uncertain Academics incrementally adopting archiving practice

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bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk