FAIR –Focus on Access to Institutional Resources

William J NixonDAEDALUS Project, University of Glasgow

e-libraries for e-learning

FAIR and the IE

• Call released in January 2002• Inspired by the vision of the Open Archives

Initiative (OAI)• Within the IE, FAIR will build repositories

which can staff and students can use to lodge and exchange content

• It will also provide information about the organisational, technical and cultural challenges in developing these “places” and the processes involved

3 Clusters, 14 Projects

• E-Prints and E-Theses

• Museums and Images

• Institutional Portals

FAIR is about more than e-Prints, it also includes images, e-Learning

objects, museum artefacts and theses

Some JISC FAIR projects

• E-Theses projects at Edinburgh and The Robert Gordon University

• HaIRST at Strathclyde

• SHERPA – Partners with Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Oxford universities

• Eprints UK – Harvester Service

• ROMEO Project at Loughborough

The Role of Libraries

• Crisis in Scholarly Communication

• Pressure on Library budgets, especially in STM areas

• History of interoperability – Z

• Skills base - Cataloguing

• Extension of current roles - Theses

DAEDALUS

• Funded until June 2005

• Building an Institutional model

• Partner with the CURL SHERPA Project

• Core strategic aim for the Library

• Two strands– Advocacy– Service Development

Issues we will explore

• Cultural– Encouraging deposit– Barriers to use and deposit

• Organisational– IPR and copyright– Plagiarism

• Technical– Metadata Standards – File formats

Advocacy – Avoiding ESpace

• to create an Open Access culture• to gather content for the range of Open

Archives services• to provide advice on policy implications,

guidelines and processes of the services• to formulate an exit strategy that ensures an

embedded and ongoing service

Strategies at Glasgow

• Project Board including an academic from each of three territorial subject groups

• Contacting those academics who are already self-publishing

• Working with departmental publications databases (RAE)

Assistance for Staff

• Focus for publisher copyright policies

• Range of repositories

• Mediated submission service– Record enhancement – File conversion

Academic Concerns

• Integrity of the work will be compromised• That no journal will subsequently publish it• That it will break existing copyright

agreements with publishers• Who benefits?• Institutional liability• Document formats • Collection policies• Quality control - avoiding “e-graffiti”

-From Project RoMEO Author Questionnaire

Range of Repositories

• Published and peer-reviewed papers• Pre-prints, grey literature, technical reports,

working papers• Theses• Research Finding Aids• Administrative Documents• Other objects: images, sound files, film clips• Search service

Range of Software

• GNU Eprints (Southampton)

• DSpace (MIT & H-P)

• ETD-db (Virginia Tech)

• ARC Search Software (Old Dominion)

Range of Metadata Issues

• Subject schemas

• Controlled vocabulary

• Rights

• Digital preservation

• OAI-PMH 2.0 stable and focus now ePrints extensions (2nd OAI Workshop)

Complementary Resource

The University of Glasgow repositories will exist, not in competition with the subject based archives, which are already established but rather as a

complementary Institutional resource.

GNU Eprints

• Developed at the Electronics and Computer Science Department of the University of Southampton.

• ePrints version 2.0 launched 14 Feb 02• We are currently running 2.2• 67+ sites now running ePrints• http://software.eprints.org

eprints.org was previously supported by CogPrints, funded by JISC as part of its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme.

ePrints at Glasgow

ePrints Record

DSpace

• Development driven by Academics at MIT• Freely available from November 2002• Digital Preservation component• Metadata: Dublin Core “qualified”• DSpace Federation: Cambridge• Installation began February 2003• http://www.dspace.org

DSpace at MIT

E-Theses

• Virginia Tech software• Complementary and voluntary• Strong Faculty support• Partners with:

Theses Alive! and E-Theses Project• http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/

ETD-db

DAEDALUS – Freeing Research and building e-Libraries

at the University of Glasgow

http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus

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