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Repository developments

Repository developments. Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK. A plenitude of ‘P’s. Policies Places (repositories themselves) Putting (ingest-level) Pulling (outputs) Purposes (new functionalities) Patterns or plans. Key Perspectives Ltd. Policies. Key Perspectives Ltd.

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Repository developments

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  1. Repository developments Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK

  2. A plenitude of ‘P’s • Policies • Places (repositories themselves) • Putting (ingest-level) • Pulling (outputs) • Purposes (new functionalities) • Patterns or plans Key Perspectives Ltd

  3. Policies Key Perspectives Ltd

  4. NIH, CURES • NIH: Strengthening now very likely • Require not request • 6 months rather than 12 months • CURES: 6-month delay permitted but… • deposit at acceptance (in PMC) • No funding for OAJ publication Key Perspectives Ltd

  5. Wellcome Trust • Require • 6 months • PMC • OUP, Springer and Blackwell on board Dec 05 Key Perspectives Ltd

  6. Places Key Perspectives Ltd

  7. Google Base • Launched in November • ‘Google-compliant’ not OAI-compliant • Terms of service allow Google to use content unattributably • Has a ‘content-type’ for scholarly articles Key Perspectives Ltd

  8. Other universal archives • OARA: Peter Suber’s venture with the Internet Archive • Tampere University has opened its own archive (Tampub) to ‘all scholars’ • UK universal archive being built in Edinburgh and funded by JISC Key Perspectives Ltd

  9. National developments • HAL (Hyper Article on Line) archive in France, a collaboration between CNRS, INSERM, INRIA, INRA and CPU (N.B.Europhysics Letters) • NORA and FRIDA (two Norwegian sisters) • And a brother, BIBSYS… Key Perspectives Ltd

  10. Putting Key Perspectives Ltd

  11. Ingest-level things • Machine-readable CC licences • CC’s own licence • Yahoo’s CC search engine • Google’s advanced search • UoC published 5 White Papers and a draft policy on scholarly communication issues Key Perspectives Ltd

  12. Services built onto repositories • Web Citation Index launched in November • NeuroCommons • Repository for articles and data • Appropriate licences for each • Semantic Web technology • Community focus (akin to Signaling Gateway) • Funded by Teramode Corp Key Perspectives Ltd

  13. Pulling Key Perspectives Ltd

  14. Usage stories • UoC’s eScholarship repository logged 2 million downloads • 2 years - 0.5m • 1 year – 1m • 9mths – 2m • 10K records at end 2005 • University of Otago Business School • Launched mid-November • 20K downloads by mid-February Key Perspectives Ltd

  15. Usage stories cont’d … • EPrints added an ‘email a request’ button • Implemented it on the ECS archive • 50 requests per day • Signs of authors responding… • Mediators drowning … Key Perspectives Ltd

  16. Purposes Key Perspectives Ltd

  17. Outputs stories • Bronze release of EPrints and DSpace for RAE (IRRA project) • UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced the end of the RAE … … in its present form • Will be based on ‘metrics’ Key Perspectives Ltd

  18. Patterns or plans for repositories Key Perspectives Ltd

  19. Purdue University’s model Key Perspectives Ltd

  20. Thank you for listening aswan@keyperspectives.co.uk www.keyperspectives.co.uk Key Perspectives Ltd

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