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Repositories, Learned Societies and Research Funders

Repositories, Learned Societies and Research Funders. Stephen Pinfield University of Nottingham. Outline. Repositories: What they are What they do What they don’t do What they should do What they might do. What repositories are. Screen shot arxiv. Screen shot DSpace@MIT. Repositories.

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Repositories, Learned Societies and Research Funders

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  1. Repositories, Learned Societies and Research Funders Stephen Pinfield University of Nottingham

  2. Outline Repositories: • What they are • What they do • What they don’t do • What they should do • What they might do

  3. What repositories are

  4. Screen shot arxiv

  5. Screen shot DSpace@MIT

  6. Repositories • Subject / institutional • Open access / restricted access • E-prints / other digital content

  7. ‘Open archives’ • Open access • free, unrestricted, immediate availability of full content (and unrestricted re-use) • Interoperable • Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI PMH)

  8. OAI Protocol: key concepts Service Provider End User Harvester Data Providers

  9. Publication & self-archiving Author writes paper Author self-archives paper in e-print repository Author submits paper to journal pre-print Editor and referees review paper post-print Author revises paper Author submits final version Publisher copy edits and formats paper Paper published in journal

  10. What repositories do

  11. What repositories do • Provide (open) access to content • to research community • to other stakeholders: health professionals, industry, media etc. • Accelerate dissemination • Store and manage content • Preserve content • Complement journals • provide copies of papers • provide services • Act as shop window for institution/organisation • Expose content/metadata for harvesting

  12. OAI Service Providers What repositories plus Service Providers do • Search – retrieve • Value-added services

  13. right now What repositories don’t do

  14. Repositories DON’T… • Provide peer review • Provide journal ‘brand’ • Provide the article of record • Replace journals • Cost a lot!

  15. What repositories should do

  16. RCUK The June 2006 updated statement: • Reaffirms the principle that publicly-funded research should be publicly available • Devolves responsibility to individual research councils • Initiates further consultation and research

  17. Research Councils • OA mandate: BBSRC, ESRC, MRC • OA encouraged: CCLRC • Policy to be released soon: AHRC, NERC • No OA policy: EPSRC, PPARC

  18. Wellcome • Open access mandate • Deposit in (UK)PMC • Fund OA charges • Publisher agreements • ‘Open’ licence agreements • Deposit of article of record

  19. What repositories might do

  20. What repositories might do (1) • More value-added services • search • citation analysis/metrics • plagiarism detection • text/data mining • Create publishing efficiencies

  21. What repositories might do (2) • Deconstructing the journal • content distribution • quality control • ‘Overlay journals’ • Quality • pre-publication screening • pre-publication peer review • post-publication metrics • post-publication dialogue

  22. Role of Learned Societies? • Journal publishers – new business models • Data providers • Service providers • Quality control/measurement services • Overlay journal providers

  23. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk Stephen.Pinfield@Nottingham.ac.uk

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