Advocacy and Nottingham’s Repositories
Bill HubbardSHERPA and RSP Manager
Subject Services Group MeetingUniversity of Nottingham, 14 May 2009
Open Access
Open Access is driving change within the Scholarly Communications landscape
Open Access - definitions Open Access Journals Open Access Repositories Open Access . . . and open access . . . .
Progress so far
Two routes using open access, but to slightly different destinations
Open Access Publishing DOAJ
4,066 journals in the directory Currently 1,459 searchable journals 27,3678 articles accessible
Houghton Report
Open Access Repositories lets see . . .
Rise of repositories
Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR www.opendoar.org over 1370 open access repositories started registration in 2006 . . .
200 added in 2007 . . . and over 300 added in 2008
Institutional repositories
The OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and access many repositories subject-based portals or views subject-based classification and search institutional storage and support
Practical reasons use institutional infrastructure integration into work-flows and systems support is close to academic users and contributors
Repositories & global structures
Data Providers and Service Providers Global network acting as one virtual repository Innovative services to support discovery and use
Repositories can vary . . . institutional, disciplinary, centralised, networks, etc contain post-prints, eTheses, data, rich output, etc
Encouraging new processes to support research These structures now allow new developments
Repositories around the world
Repositories in Europe
Repositories in Russell&1994 Groups
University of Bath Birkbeck University of Birmingham University of Bristol University of Cambridge Cardiff University University of Durham University of East Anglia University of Edinburgh University of Essex University of Exeter University of Glasgow Goldsmiths
Queen’s University University of Reading Royal Holloway University of St Andrews University of Sheffield SOAS University of Southampton University of Surrey University of Sussex University of Warwick UCL University of York
Imperial College King's College London Lancaster University University of Leeds University of Leicester University of Liverpool Loughborough University LSE University of Manchester University of Newcastle University of Nottingham University of Oxford Queen Mary
effective coverage of the UK HE research base . . .
Issues
(Non-issues of plagiarism and peer-review) Copyright Mandates Cultural change Workflows Management within institutions Terminology
post-print, publisher’s version colours. . .
Developments
Primary data archiving Text mining Data mining Rich research outputs Web 2.0 Social and technical attitudes
Capitalising on repositories
Open Access Greater availability and wider readership Increased citations New contacts and research possibilities
Information management REF and evaluation As resource for academic services Support for new forms and systems of research
communication and collaboration
Open access (OA) mandates
UK Research Councils
Charities & Independent fundersWellcome TrustBritish Heart FoundationCancer Research UKEtc
InternationalEuropean Research Council
Open access (OA) mandates
UK: RCUKAHRCBBSRCESRCMRCNERCSTFC
UK: charities/ independent fundersBritish Heart FoundationCancer Research UKWellcome Trustetc
InternationalGovernment and independent funders
www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
Funder policies: RCUK
Directly-Incurred Costs “For Research Council grants, publication fees may be included
as a directly-incurred cost under the ‘Other’ costs heading on the standard electronic application form.”*
Indirect Costs: Full Economic Costs “If universities do set up such [publication] funds, they will form
part of the cost base used for calculating their standard rate for the indirect costs of research.”*
* RIN Briefing Note on Payment of Publication Fees
Introduction to Open Access
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Academics (as researchers and authors)
Senior administrators
School Managers and administrative staff
Information professionals
Introduction to Open Access
Journals
RepositoriesS
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Academics (as researchers and authors)
Senior administrators
School Managers and administrative staff
Information professionals
Introduction to Open Access
Journals
Repositories
Dealing with questions and
general outreach
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Academics (as researchers and authors)
Senior administrators
School Managers and administrative staff
Information professionals
Introduction to Open Access
Journals
Repositories
Dealing with questions and
general outreach
Sta
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tion
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Fam
iliar
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Academics (as researchers and authors)
Senior administrators
School Managers and administrative staff
Information professionals
Introduction to Open Access
Journals
Repositories
Dealing with questions and
general outreach
* General information
* Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings
* News alerts/updates on OA developments
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Academics (as researchers and authors)
Senior administrators
School Managers and administrative staff
Information professionals
Introduction to Open Access
Journals
Repositories
Dealing with questions and
general outreach
* General information
* Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings
* News alerts/updates on OA developments
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Academics (as researchers and authors)
Senior administrators
School Managers and administrative staff
Information professionals
Introduction to Open Access
Journals
Repositories
Dealing with questions and
general outreach
* General information
* Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings
* News alerts/updates on OA developments
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Academics (as researchers and authors)
Senior administrators
School Managers and administrative staff
Information professionals
(IS development of services and processes using repository
or open access materials)
Introduction to Open Access
Journals
Repositories
Dealing with questions and
general outreach
* General information
* Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings
* News alerts/updates on OA developments
Promotion of services
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Academics (as researchers and authors)
Senior administrators
School Managers and administrative staff
Information professionals
(IS development of services and processes using repository
or open access materials)
Introduction to Open Access
Journals
Repositories
Dealing with questions and
general outreach
* General information
* Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings
* News alerts/updates on OA developments
Promotion of services
Sta
ge 1
Intr
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tion
Sta
ge 2
Fam
iliar
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ion
Sta
ge 3
Em
bedd
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Academics (as researchers and authors)
Senior administrators
School Managers and administrative staff
Information professionals
(IS development of services and processes using repository
or open access materials)
Introduction to Open Access
Journals
Repositories
Dealing with questions and
general outreach
* General information
* Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings
* News alerts/updates on OA developments
Promotion of services
Sta
ge 1
Intr
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tion
Sta
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Fam
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ion
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Inte
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Integration of services within normal IS service portfolio
Background information integrated with general IS information provision
Academics (as researchers and authors)
Senior administrators
School Managers and administrative staff
Information professionals
(IS development of services and processes using repository
or open access materials)
Bill [email protected]
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