University of Bergen Library

Electronic publishing

Bergen – Makerere visit February 2005

Agenda• Institutional repositories• The Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA)• Introduction to Dspace, the software• Uganda Science Digital Library• Q&A

Collaboration Programme between University of Bergen and Makerere University

Institutional Repository

• Institution-based• Scholarly material in digital formats• Cumulative and perpetual• Open source and interoperable• Potentially new publishing models• Provides faculty with long-term storage of research data

and publications

Collaboration Programme between University of Bergen and Makerere University

Benefits• The institutions research freely available in one database

on the internet for everyone to access• Maximise the visibility and impact of research for

individual researchers and their fellows• Uniform Resource Identifiers are given to each

document• Searchability through Google, and Union Catalogues• Maximise the access to research at other institutions

[who follow suit]

Copyright issues

• When authors publish articles in peer reviewed magazines they have to give up their copyright

• 91% of academic publishers allow self-archiving of research papers in institutional repositories

• The Sherpa project • The Romeo copyright overview

60%6269%6133Postprint

+6% (=66%)6+22% (=91%)1975Preprint

34%359%754Neither yet

(100%)103(100%)8862

%Publishers%JournalsGreen light

to self-archive:

Kilde: Stevan Harnad, PowerPoint Presentation - Self-archiving Illustration

Why Libraries?

• Expertise– Large-scale collection management

• Collection policies• Preservation

– Metadata – Solid business practices

• Commitment– Long time frames– Fits with Libraries’ mission

Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA)

• Main goals:

– Enabling secure digital long term storage of research from the University of Bergen

– Make this research freely available on the internet

• Working group: University library + ITdept. • Established cooperation with University of

Glasgow• Pilot projects

BORA – further development

● Two databases● BORA – containing peer review material, dissertations

and masters theses● The exam archive – containing phd-dissertations,

masters theses (complete collection)● And possibly a third database – containing series,

reports, out of print monographies etc.

All of these made available by using DSpace

What is DSpace?

• Software for institutional repostiories• Captures

– Digital research material in any format– Directly from creators or other fascilitators– Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage

• Distributes via the internet• Preserves

– Bitstream guaranteed– A few supported formats where we guarantee

longterm usability (pdf)

Information Model

• Communities– Research units of the organization

• Collections (in communities)– Distinct groupings of like items

• Items (in collections)– Logical content objects– Receive persistent identifier

• Bitstreams (in items)– Individual files– Receive preservation treatment

Possible DSpace Content

• Articles– Preprints, e-prints

• Technical Reports• Working Papers• Conference Papers• E-theses• Audio/Video

• Datasets– Statistical, geospatial

• Images– Visual, scientific

• Teaching material– Lecture notes,

visualizations, simulations

• Digitized library collections

Easy to Use

• Easy to add content• Easy to create permanent identifiers for your content• browse and search content

Uganda Science Digital Library (USDL)

• Pilot project– Digitization

• select information sources to digitize• learn to use scanner and software

– USDL• assess copyright issues• document formats• train project employees in using DSpace• start use...

USDL – building the Communities

• Assess what a department has published• Check copyright• Set up the Community• Add content• Use metadata (keywords, descriptions) to aid search and

retrieval• Update community’s content with new research

Q&A