The plan

1. The plan Who The Project Manager Goal and corresponding tasks today • Interim results, and sneak preview of a new service in development; highlighting the portal, technical aspects and the dataset pilot • Decentralised subject repository • Managed by consortium of leading libraries • A possible model of interest for other Duration 25 - 30mins + time for questions V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

2. Co-funded by the European Union “This EU funding and the widespreadcollaboration on NEEO are exactly what will make this a success, and, more important, critically allow the world greater and readier access to best research.” Danny Quah, Prof. of Economics and Head of Dept V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

3. Key objectives To improve the usability and globalvisibility of economics research Providing easier and open access to high-qualitymultilingual academic output of leading economics institutes and their researchers Via a sustainable portal with aggregated and enhanced metadata enabling an infrastructure for new services V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

4. Background • 18 partners, including Columbia Univeristy, + (16 EU-funded, including the LSE, universities of Oxford, Tilburg, Toulouse, Leuven, Warwick, and UCL) • Finance: almost € 2m = +/- $ 2,7m • eContentplus, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission • Nereus: Consortium of 23 academic institutions and their libraries with strengths in economics • Duration: 30 months Sept. 2007 – March 2010 V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

5. Some stats • 890> authors participating • Over 2,300 researchers at NEEO institutions in 2007 • 350 publication lists • 41,108 metadata records • 16,868 full text records • 2,583 current content • Publishing over 4,000 docs in 2007 • Currently 6 partners online & RePEc • Economists Online gateway, versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, version 1.3. Public launch 28 January 2010 V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

6. Accessibility • RePEC services • IDEAS (4) • Econpapers (100) • RePEC author service (22) • Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (10) • Econbiz (1) • Google Scholar (294) • Google (185,000) • Author web page (0) • Economists Online 123 V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

7. Improving access to full text V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

8. Key results • User requirement studies • Defining and confirming content acquisition and service specs. e.g. books & chapters, datasets and DB, aim • Quality content, scope, would contribute, visibility+, 73% rec • Advocacy support: awareness and dissemination plan, IPR report, PR • Report on the data repository and data issues report • Business and sustainability plan • Workshops and lessons learnt • Long-term preservation • Economists Online portal V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

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12. Points of interest to OR09 • Technical aspects • Enhanced publications: Data V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

13. Technical aspects • OAI-PMH exchange of DIDL-MODS formatted metadata • OAI-PMH exchange of usage metadata • Full-text searching • Automated publication lists per author • Automated enrichment of metadata • Integration with RePEc: push and pull • Multilingual searching V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

14. Enhanced publications: data • Access to the primary research datasets (and supplementary materials) that underpin economics publications • Exploring the issues that hinder OA availability of research data, e.g. privacy, IPR, DB rights • One of the only concerted European efforts in the social sciences that systematically links primary research datasets to publications V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

15. Enhanced publications: data • Pilot with 10 datasets per partner • Using DDI standard and Dataverse • NEEO accredits all contributors to the data life cycle, that is, dataset owners, data sources, data providers/distributors (capturing data provenance info) • Case study for researchers • Spin-offs • Emergence of institutional departmental policies for archiving, sharing and improving access to research data • Introduces the development of new skills and professions for the library community: The Data Librarian V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

16. Is this a model of interest to others building subject repository services? V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

17. Final conference • Theme: The future of subject repositories • Geographic overviews: US, Australia and Europe • Workshops on interoperability, datasets, IPR, content recruitment, multilingual systems and usage statistics • 28-29 January 2010, British Library, London • Programme to be published shortly • Interested in attending? Please mail subjectrep_parts@lists.uvt.nl V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

18. A model for other subject repositories? • A strong consortium of institutions with a member base • With high-level support from the subject community • Where the institution’s rank and quality content is key • Making concrete efforts to provide new content OA • Showcasing and disseminating work worldwide • Data ownership and management is at & with the organization • A central md store and portal, where added value services are developed and tested collaboratively • Knowledge exchange activities increase efficiency and inspire • A sustainable model that can be built upon in the future V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

19. Are you interested in joining us? v.m.proudman@uvt.nl V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009

20. Acknowledgements http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicenergy/2067107554/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/486219204/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/polanri/2397613433/ V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009