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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES

Digital Strategy:

European Perspectives

Dr Paul Ayris

Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer

e-mail: [email protected]

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Contents

1. UCL and UCL Library Services

2. Institutional architectures3. E-Content

E-Journals

E-Books

Mass Digitisation

4. Open Access

5. Digital Curation LIFE project

UK Research Data Service

6. Conclusions?

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Contents

1. UCL and UCL Library Services

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League Tables

World University rankings

1 Harvard University US

2= University of Cambridge UK

2= University of Oxford UK2= Yale University US

5 Imperial College, London UK

6 Princeton University US

7= California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US

7= University of Chicago US

9 UCL (University College London) UK10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US

http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_ranki

ngs/top_ 100_universities/

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Library Strategy2005-10

10 over-arching goals

E-Strategy a priority for:

Teaching and Learning

Research

Student experience

Partnership working

See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/libstrat_may05.shtml

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Contents

2. Institutional Architectures

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User

Interface

OptionalSub-

Gateway

Indexing &Metadata

DigitalContent

PaperContent

VLELibrary

website

Freely available

A&I

DatabasesLibrary catalogues

UCL licensed

A&Idatabases

UCL owned

eUCLid

E-PrintsReading Lists

ScholarlyGateways

e.g. ArXiv

MetaLib

SFX

UCL owned

Special Colls archiveExam papers

E-Prints

UCL licensed

E-JournalsE-Books

Freely available

E-JournalsE-Books

Other full text Digital CourseReadings

Books Journals Reading Lists Exam Papers etc.

Inter-connected e-services @ UCL

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Digital challenges

Present architecture is systems-driven

Needs to be user-centric UCL¶s requirements do not fit all modules

Federated searching via MetaLib not heavily used

E-Learning platform missing?

Flexible management information generated by any library staff member

New services

Digital curation and digital preservation of institutional content Join-up with campus-wide systems

Student Systems, Finance Systems, Alumni systems

Networked versus institutional provision?

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VRE/VLE/

local web

Student/UCL Library

systems

Social networking toolsGoogle interface to

Internet

Prescribed core readings

and textbooks

Local UCL

holdingsPaper and e-

External content

subscribed and free

Research collaborations;Primary data; Group

project work; Learninginterface

Pay fees; book residences;pay fines; see course andexam marks; see loans

information

Core textbooks (STM);Digital readings (AHSS)

Books/Journals/

AV/Digital Collectionsand Archives

YouTube, FaceBook, Flickr Global resources - freeE-Journals, E-Books,

mass digitisation

Institutional portal?

OAI? OAI?

OAI? OAI/Federated search

Snippets

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Key Strategic Questions

British Museum Reading Room is traditional model

Library pulls readers into library space

In a networked and global environment, library is just one content provider

In UCL, STM researchers hardly ever set foot into a physical library space Digital material is pushed to them electronically at their desktop

Should the Library push stuff out to where the student is (e.g. Facebook)?

Is an institutional portal helpful in providing a one-stop shop for theuser to navigate both local and remote content and services?

Thanks to Lorcan Dempsey for this metaphor and discussion

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User response:

The µGoogle Generation¶?

Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future

See http://www.bl.uk/news/2008/pressrelease20080116.html

Research undertaken by CIBER at UCL

All age groups revealed to share µGoogle Generation¶ traits

Young people

Rely heavily on search engines

View rather than read

Do not possess the critical or analytical skills needed to assess the

information they find on the web

This has implications for the development of digital strategies

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Contents

3. E-Content

E-Journals

E-Books

Mass Digitisation

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E-Journals

E-Journal delivery to desktop now standard Publisher backfiles a high priority

Paper copy? Current issues of paper copies cancelled?

Challenge is multiple copies of back-runs of paper journals, particularly inScience, Technology and Medicine (STM), in university library stores

UK Research Reserve being funded by HEFCE to provide a copy of lastresort, with document delivery option See http://www.curl.ac.uk/projects/CollaborativeStorage/Home.htm

Arrangements for second and third copies around UK being overseen bySCONUL as part of developments

De-duplication of paper holdings across sector a possible outcome

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E-Books

SuperBook project at UCL

Collaboration between UCL Library Services and UCL¶s School of Library Archive and Information Studies

See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/ciber/superbook/

µWith e-books available directly from anywhere on or off campus, andportable readers capable of holding more than 100 books, the traditionalacademic library will need to examine the way it manages and deliversbook collections. It is the users who will drive the e-book story forward;and, unlike earlier formats, no one is watching the users of this new breedof µsuper books¶

Final Report available in Summer 2008

Thanks to Dr Ian Rowlands, UCL SLAIS, for the following slides from aWorkshop at King¶s College Cambridge, 30 August 2007

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1st E-Textbooks:

58.9%

2nd Reference Books:

52.4%

3rd Research monographs:46%

Initial findings from UCL¶s SuperBook project

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E-Book issues

E-Books the next major form of content to be available digitally?

Business Models Monograph publishing is supported by sales to individuals

What is the driver for publishers to move to E-Book delivery?

Discovery and Retrieval How is the mass of available content to be located and made available for

discovery?

De-duplicated

FRBRized (for e- and paper copy) and different editions available in one search

Whose role is it to do this?

Vendors, Third Parties, Libraries«?

Metadata standards for E-Books need to mature And to develop down to chapter, section and paragraph level for inclusion in E-

Learning offerings

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E-Content:

Mass digitisation in Europe

Europeana Portal for Europe¶s libraries, galleries, museums, archives, plus film and

sound See http://www.europeana.eu/

2,000,000 digital objects to be available by July 2009

Prototype to be launched in November 2008 by Viviane Reding, EuropeanCommissioner for Information Society and Media

Funded as part of the eContent pl us programme

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm

As part of the i2010 policy

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index _en.htm

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Libraries and Europeana

Libraries co-ordinated by

CENL (Committee for European National Libraries) http://www.nlib.ee/cenl/

LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche)

http://www.libereurope.eu

Europeana to use CENL and LIBER portals from which to harvestmetadata

TEL (for national libraries) see http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html

LIBER portal

to be built

EU offering funding in eContent pl us call To meet 50% of digitisation costs for creating content

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Pan-European developments

LIBER and EBLIDA held a pan-European Digitisation Workshop inCopenhagen in October 2007

See http://www.libereurope.eu/node/142

25 recommendations to discuss with European Commission on 2June 2008

Vision for European digitisation activity ± need for joined up thinking

Content ± need for European selection criteria

Resource discovery ± need for portal development Copyright and IPR ± particularly around licensing and orphan works

Standards and policies ± need for registries of identifiers and metadatastandards

Business Models ± pricing and costing models; need for EU funding

Digital Preservation ± definition of role and responsibilities

See http://www.libereurope.eu/node/284

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4. Open Access

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European Universities Association

European Universities Association endorsed Open Access on 26March 2008 See http://www.eua.be/index.php?id=354

Recommendations for University Leadership The basic approach for achieving this [Open Access] should be the

creation of an institutional repository or participation in a shared repository

University institutional policies should require that their researchersdeposit (self archive) their scientific publications in their institutionalrepository upon acceptance for publication

University policies should include copyright in institutional intellectualproperty rights (IPR) management

University institutional policies should explore also how resources could befound and made available to researchers for author fees to support theemerging ³author pays model´ of open access

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European Universities Association

Recommendations for National Rectors¶ Conferences

All National Rectors¶ Conferences should work with national researchfunding agencies and governments in their countries to implement therequirement for self archiving of research publications in institutionalrepositories and other appropriate open access repositories

National Rectors¶ Conferences should attach high priority to raising theawareness of university leadership to the importance of open accesspolicies in terms of enhanced visibility, access and impact of their research

results Recommendations for the European University Association

EUA should continue to contribute actively to the policy dialogue on Open Access at the European levels with a view to a self archiving mandate for all research results arising from EU research programme/project funding

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Library responses to Open Access

DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for

European Research) is building a pan-European repositoryarchitecture and toolset 13 current partners at http://www.driver-repository.eu/

Pan-European repository projects are building upaggregations of content NEEO (for European economics research)

See http://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo.html

DART-Europe, led by LIBER, for European Research Theses

See http://www.dart-europe.eu

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DART-Europe membership

DART-Europe portal (DEEP) has 34 partners from all over Europe

Portal currently providing access, via OAI-PMH protocol, to 82,181

doctoral theses

Selected universities from UK, Ireland, Hungary

National/regional consortia from Nordic Countries, Catalonia, French-

speaking Belgian Universities, Germany

In the pipeline: Switzerland, France, regional consortium from Italy

Working with DRIVER to bring in DRIVER partners and countries,

including The Netherlands, Flemish-speaking Belgian Universities

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Why do research theses matter?

UCL top 10 downloads 01/07

Research theses in UCL

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Open Access can result in achange of culture

In Arts and Humanities, some/many(?) Ph.D. dissertations are

published as monographs Good print run for such a monograph is 400 copies

But repository downloads are much higher«

In UCL example, 131, 126 and 124 per month

Good for research and good for the researcher

Is conventional monograph publishing for research dissertations

yesterday¶s news?

Is this an area where Open Access adds tremendous value?

Will current orthodoxy of publishing research theses as monographs

survive?

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5. Digital Curation

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Costing models

LIFE (Lifecycle Information For E-literature)

Led by British Library and UCL at http://www.life.ac.uk

Phase 2 reporting 23 June 2008 as LIBER project Has established Lifecycle and Preservation costing formulae

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Lifecycle

Element

Acquisition Ingest Metadata Access Storage Preservation

Element 1

Selection

(Aq1)

Quality

Assurance

(I1)

Characteri-

sation

(M1)

Reference

Linking

(Ac1)

Bit-stream

Storage

Costs (S1)

Technology

Watch

(P1)

Element 2

IPR

(Aq2)

Deposit

(I2)

Descriptive

(M2)

User Support

(Ac2)

Preservation

Tool Cost

(P2)

Element 3

Licensing

(Aq3)

Holdings

Update

(I3)

Administrative

(M3)

Access

Mechanism

(Ac3)

Preservation

Metadata

(P3)

Element 4

Ordering &

Invoicing

(Aq4)

Preservation

Action

(P4)

Element 5

Obtaining

(Aq5)

Quality

Assurance

(P5)

Element 6

Check-in

(Aq6)

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Web Archiving Case Study

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UKRDS

RLUK (Research Libraries UK ± formerly CURL) and RUGIT (Russell

Group IT Directors) have issued an Invitation to Tender £200,000 from HEFCE for a Feasibility Study into the development of

a shared digital research data service for UK Higher EducationInstitutions

Locally, there is uncertainty about the costs involved in managing largedata volumes and the availability of a suitably skilled workforce tomanage the new challenges posed by data curation

Feasibility Study will address the need not just for storage capacity butfor active management of the creation, selection, ingestion, storage,retrieval and preservation of research data - the data lifecycle

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UKRDS

Stakeholders

Research Councils and Research Councils UK (RCUK)

Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills (DIUS)

Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

Higher Education Funding Councils

Individual Universities International developments in data curation will inform the

Feasibility Study

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Contents

6. Conclusions?

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Conclusions?

Libraries are changing Reflected in UCL Library Services¶ Strategy

Institutional architectures Inter-operability is essential

Balance between local and network delivery is changing

Are users equipped for the brave new world?

Are E-Books the next big wave of e-content? There is a demand, but publisher offerings are not mature?

Growing interest in Europe in mass digitisation of content European infrastructure and content being put into place

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Conclusions?

Open Access

Endorsed by European Universities Association

New pan-European Open Access services

Digital Curation

LIFE project establishing a generic costing model for lifecycle

curation of digital assets, which includes preservation UK Research Data Service is being scoped and costed

Major new development for UK research

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And finally«

Thanks for listening

« if you have been «

Happy to hear comments

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