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Institutional

Repositories

Ken ScottAssociate Library Director - Access and Media Services

Open Access Movement

• Budapest Open Access Initiative Declaration

(February 2002)• Open access journals/books – Gold Route Open Access

• Self-archiving – Green Route Open Access

– Personal websites

– Scholarly repositories

» Institutional repositories of academic institutions

Self-archiving in

Scholarly Repositories

Institutional Repositories

• More than 3000 worldwide

Source: maps.repository66.org

Copyright and Repositories

• Transfer of copyright to publisher usually part

of the publishing agreement

• Preprint/postprint – usually OK to self-archive

• Publisher’s version PDF – approval required

Retaining Selected Rights

SPARC Addendum“SPARC is an international

alliance of academic and

research libraries working to

create a more open system of

scholarly communication”

www.sparc.arl.org

Institutional Repository Software

1225 sites

468 sites

168 sites

Open Archives Initiative Protocol

(OAI) compliant software ensures

machine-to-machine interface provides

effective harvesting of metadata by

search engines such as Google.

Case Study: Digital Georgetown

1. Copyright check – www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

Case Study: Digital Georgetown

2. Add metadata

Case Study: Digital Georgetown

3. Add coversheet and publisher’s version PDF

Case Study: Digital Georgetown4. Report on metrics

Institutional Repositories Summary

• Self-archiving = Green Route Open Access

• Ensure repository software is OAI compliant

• Address copyright issues

• Use the SPARC Addendum

• Opens access and showcases scholarship