Doing More with Open Access Repositories:

Recent and Developing Services

John MacCollHead, Digital Library

University of EdinburghScotland, UK

Presentation

1 Introduction2 Multi-Venue Publication3 Semantic Enrichment4 Legal Enrichment5 Text-Mining6 Services to Academic Authors: the

Depot7 Overlay Journals

Presentation8 Ranked Research Output Services9 Open Access and Research

Assessment10 Aggregated ETD Services11 Data Linkage12 Federated Search13 Preservation14 Conclusion

The battle for content

UK IR league table, April 2006

ETDs going strong

SHERPA steering the UK

Gold & green

Publishing simplification tools

Open Access publishing: financial support

UK PubMed Central

BioMed Central journals

PLOS journals

UK PMC workflow

PMC DTD

Freely available

Science Commons

Publication policy

Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine

Neurocommons

The Depot

Overlay Journals: a chimera?

Overlay journals: developing architecture

Source: Van de Sompel, H [et al] 'An interoperable fabric for scholarly value chains' D-Lib Magazine 12 (10) October 2006

Dutch Cream of Science

Ranked research output services

Geographical Services

Disciplinary Services

Geographical by Discipline

Disciplinary by Geography

Set of all institutional repositories

Faculty of 1000

Research Assessment Exercise

'Purity' of Open Access institutional repositories

Edinburgh a aGlasgow a a aSouthampton a aOxford a aWhite Rose a aUCL a aBirmingham a a

Metadata record

Full-text referent for each metadata record

Guaranteed active link to referent

Dependent link to referent

Full-text digitisation request option

Aggregated ETD services

Source: Wells, Andrew. The Australian perspective: innovation and stewardship in building a key national research repository - the Australian Digital Theses Program. Presentation at ETD 2005, University of New South Wales

CLADDIER

StORe

MRC Data Sharing and Preservation Initiative

Deconstructed peer review?

• Read paper within IR• Consult data within its repository• Review not complete until both have been checked and assessed• 'Formal' publication becomes dependent on informal

Federated search

Federated search

Preservation

Conclusions

• Complementarity of formal and informal scholarly publishing systems• Emergence of new business models• Cost-neutral shift to a more efficient system• New tools will continue to appear based on well-formed data – including 'literature as data'• Our current task is to clear the ground

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