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Repository Developments
UCCA, Farnham, 1st November 2007
Peter Cliff
Acknowledgements
A big thank you to:
Gareth Johnson
Jackie Knowles
and other colleagues of the RSP for their ideas and slides!
Repository Developments
Overview:
Where are we coming from?
Where are we now?
Where are we going?
Where are we coming from? orWhy are we here? 1
Scholars share their knowledge, always have for example, the discovery of penicillin
Publishing facilitated sharing
The Internet arrives
Cost becomes an avoidable barrier
Open Access
Where are we coming from? orWhy are we here? 2
JISC Information Environment“build an on-line information environment providing secure and convenient access to a comprehensive collection of scholarly and educational material”JISC IE information environment development strategy 2001-2005
JISC Strategy Aim 1: Priority 7“innovative and sustainable ICT infrastructure, services and practice that support institutions in meeting their mission”“Build a national infrastructure of interoperable digital repositories (addressing institutional, subject and learning object repositories)”JISC Strategy 2007-2009
Where are we now?
JISC Repositories and preservation programme
Where are we now?
JISC Repositories and preservation programme
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres.aspx
Where are we now?
The repositories:
arxiv.org
You!
Where are we now?
The repositories worldwide:
Where are we now?
The repositories:
Where are we now?
RSP• News and Events
• Events Programme• http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/index.php#future
• Institutional Support and Mentoring
• Talk to Us and Each Other!
Where are we now?
Open Access• LOTS happening – check:
• http://www.eprints.org/news/• http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
Directory of Open Access Journals• http://www.doaj.org/
SPARC & SPARCeurope• http://www.arl.org/sparc/• http://www.sparkyawards.org/• http://www.sparceurope.org/
Where are we now?
Other sources of support:• UKCoRR
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/UKCORR_Launch.html
• DRIVER• http://www.driver-repository.eu/• http://www.driver-support.eu/en/index.html
• APSR• http://www.apsr.edu.au/
Where are we now?
Search services• OAIster
• http://www.oaister.org/• http://www.oaister.org/dataproviders.html
• Intute Repository Search• http://irs.ukoln.ac.uk/
• ARROW• http://www.arrow.edu.au/• http://stats.nla.gov.au/arrow/
• GoogleScholar• http://scholar.google.co.uk/• http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/googlecrawling.htm
Where are we going?
Ithaca
Where are we going?
Still building the network Still persuing Open Access
Data/Information Management
Transparency
Where are we going?
Still building the network
Still pursuing Open Access
Data/Information Management
Transparency
s
Questions?
