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The Successful Repository: Welcome and Context
Keith WebsterUniversity Librarian & Director of Learning Services
S R RANGANATHANBooks are for useEvery reader his bookEvery book its readerSave the time of the readerA library is a growing organism
Five laws of library science, 1931
The evolution of institutional repositories
Institutional Repositories: A Workshop on Creating an Infrastructure for Faculty-Library Partnerships (ARL/SPARC/CNI – 2002)The New Frontier of Institutional Repositories (CNI, 2003)Filling Institutional Repositories (Ariadne, 2004)Beyond Storage: Rethinking the role of repositories in scholarly communication (UKOLN, 2005)
www.apsr.edu.au
The Successful Repository
29 June 2006
What triggered the IR movement?
Changes in scholarly communicationChanges in scholarly activityTechnological possibilities Emergence of standards Reduced data storage costs
Advances in digital preservation
Benefits of institutional repositories
Academics Coherent archive of their work Increase impact/dissemination A tool for collaborative research and data
storage
Universities Increase impact/prestige Recruitment/promotional tool
Society Free access to taxpayer’s (and others’) research Long-term preservation
What has been achieved?
Proliferation of repositoriesMuch early effort on technology build and content recruitmentDOAR coverage of 379 repositoriesRecognition of potential in government and other debates
But work remains to be done…
24,000 peer-reviewed journal titles2.5 million articles per annum>90 per cent publishers permit deposit15 per cent articles are self-archivedGrowing evidence that a mandate will not be resisted
Building on success
Role of repositories in e-ResearchResearch data storageBlended repositoriesCollection development policyStimulating collaborative researchMaximising research impactThe role of the Library
Going beyond the technology
How do we engage the academy?How do we make repositories sustainable?How do we demonstrate success?How do we demonstrate the need for repositories (and the value they bring)?What impact will the RQF have?
Repositories and research assessment
No absolute clarity on format of RQFRepositories as sources of research outputs – for validation and for assessmentSciences “easy” – for eprints and conference papersArts and humanities less straightforward
Research assessment
Could RQF/PBRF/RAE act as mandating mechanism? Would we want this?Links to (or replacement for) research management systemWhich versions of papers appear in repository? Pre-print Post-print Author’s mss PDF from publisher
What is assessed?
Metrics-based assessment
What measures will be used?What sort of data can we/should we gather?Standards and policy frameworksWebometrics
Hunting and gathering
Cultivation of crops
Domestication of animals
Commerce and industry
After Wolpert, 2005