Cardiff ePrints Caerdydd: from Vision to Reality
http://eprints.cf.ac.uk/
Anne Bell
Creating Cardiff ePrints
Outcomes - the “finished” pilot
Where we are now - advocacy
Overview
Cardiff ePrints Timeline: 1
2001 – interest in OA & repositories
2002/3 – awareness events
2003/4 – institutional merger
2004 September – project group
2004 December – project start
2004/5 – Strategic Library Review
Cardiff ePrints Timeline: 2
2005 April – first implementation
2005 October – final configuration
2006 February – OAI registration
& OpenDOAR
2006 March – low profile publicity,
content 18 papers
Cardiff ePrints Timeline: 3
2005/6 – Modern Working Environment
2005/6 – RAE planning
Summer 2006 – more full text content
Autumn 2006 – end of Pilot development –
66 items
2007 January – advocacy plan
Cardiff ePrints Pilot: Features 1
EPrints softwareInitial focus Engineering & OptometryMediated depositSelf-archivingAims
demonstrate the concept full text published papers
Cardiff ePrints Pilot: Features 2
Library driven Specialised support from other parts of
INSRV. INSRV Project group – high level guidanceePrints Project team – cataloguers &
subject librariansNo dedicated staff resources
Cardiff ePrints Pilot: Outcome 1
Total of 300+ papers were checkedApprox 60 papers added during pilot phaseOptometry
211 papers, 73 “green”, 34 addedEngineering
75 papers, 57 “green” 23 addedNursing
30 papers, 14 “green”, 1 added
Publishers and Copyright
Quality and perceptionPublisher pdf or author
final versionWithout the journal pdf,
self-archiving perceived to be self-publishing, and the content not peer-reviewed
Resource issues
Copyright and quality concerns
Culture changeInstitutional backing
Re-think on objectives and approach to
advocacy
Cardiff ePrints Pilot: Outcome 2
Cardiff ePrints: Advocacy 1
Advocacy plan – a project in its own rightInstitutional mandate? “…voluntary persuasion of individuals is known
not to work beyond a pitiful participation level. Self-archiving needs to be made part of the routine academic duty, and this requires a policy endorsement by someone.”
(Arthur Sale)RAE?
Cardiff ePrints: Advocacy 2
Open meeting of stakeholdersRaise awareness
OA benefits, simple messages Identify Schools’ priorities Briefing material to ensure consistency
RAE publication dataMWE integration
Cardiff ePrints: Advocacy 3
Information Services Annual Report “Open Access repository positions the
University for the future” 2 key messages – OA impact advantage +
funding mandates Presentations to University audiences via
existing eventsSchool Strategy planningPromotional postcard
Why have a Repository? 40+ UK institutions have repositories Benefits for researchers
wider dissemination and citation easier searching and access
Benefits for institutions promoting research reputation managing publications and data
Compliance with funding authority policies
Metrics-based RAE (post 2008)
Benefits: Research Impact
“…online articles are more highly cited because of easier availability." Nature (2001) vol 411, no. 6837, p.521
"Overall, [self-archiving] of articles in open access repositories seems to be associated with both a larger number of citations, and earlier citations for the items deposited...” UK scholarly journals: 2006 baseline
report: An evidence-based analysis of data concerning scholarly journal publishing. http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-scholarly-journals
Cardiff ePrints: Advocacy 4
Internal contextPragmaticPreparing for the futureRAEMWEGFI
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