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The Successful Repository: Welcome and Context

The Successful Repository: Welcome and Context. Keith Webster University Librarian & Director of Learning Services. S R RANGANATHAN. Books are for use Every reader his book Every book its reader Save the time of the reader A library is a growing organism Five laws of library science, 1931.

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The Successful Repository: Welcome and Context

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  1. The Successful Repository: Welcome and Context Keith Webster University Librarian & Director of Learning Services

  2. S R RANGANATHAN • Books are for use • Every reader his book • Every book its reader • Save the time of the reader • A library is a growing organism • Five laws of library science, 1931

  3. The evolution of institutional repositories • Institutional Repositories: A Workshop on Creating an Infrastructure for Faculty-Library Partnerships (ARL/SPARC/CNI – 2002) • The New Frontier of Institutional Repositories (CNI, 2003) • Filling Institutional Repositories (Ariadne, 2004) • Beyond Storage: Rethinking the role of repositories in scholarly communication (UKOLN, 2005)

  4. The Successful Repository 29 June 2006 www.apsr.edu.au

  5. What triggered the IR movement? • Changes in scholarly communication • Changes in scholarly activity • Technological possibilities • Emergence of standards • Reduced data storage costs • Advances in digital preservation

  6. Benefits of institutional repositories • Academics • Coherent archive of their work • Increase impact/dissemination • A tool for collaborative research and data storage • Universities • Increase impact/prestige • Recruitment/promotional tool • Society • Free access to taxpayer’s (and others’) research • Long-term preservation

  7. What has been achieved? • Proliferation of repositories • Much early effort on technology build and content recruitment • DOAR coverage of 379 repositories • Recognition of potential in government and other debates

  8. But work remains to be done… • 24,000 peer-reviewed journal titles • 2.5 million articles per annum • >90 per cent publishers permit deposit • 15 per cent articles are self-archived • Growing evidence that a mandate will not be resisted

  9. Building on success • Role of repositories in e-Research • Research data storage • Blended repositories • Collection development policy • Stimulating collaborative research • Maximising research impact • The role of the Library

  10. Going beyond the technology • How do we engage the academy? • How do we make repositories sustainable? • How do we demonstrate success? • How do we demonstrate the need for repositories (and the value they bring)? • What impact will the RQF have?

  11. Repositories and research assessment • No absolute clarity on format of RQF • Repositories as sources of research outputs – for validation and for assessment • Sciences “easy” – for eprints and conference papers • Arts and humanities less straightforward

  12. Research assessment • Could RQF/PBRF/RAE act as mandating mechanism? Would we want this? • Links to (or replacement for) research management system • Which versions of papers appear in repository? • Pre-print • Post-print • Author’s mss • PDF from publisher • What is assessed?

  13. Metrics-based assessment • What measures will be used? • What sort of data can we/should we gather? • Standards and policy frameworks • Webometrics

  14. Hunting and gathering Cultivation of crops Domestication of animals Commerce and industry After Wolpert, 2005

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