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Norwegian Open Research Archives (NORA). How and why is the NORA project adding value to the institutional repositories established in Norway?.
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Norwegian Open Research Archives (NORA) How and why is the NORA project adding value to the institutional repositories established in Norway?
Elin StangelandThe University of Bergen Libraryelin.stangeland@ub.uib.noMarianne MoeNorwegian University of Science and Technology Librarymarianne.moe@ub.ntnu.no
Overview • Open Access and institutional repositories • Institutional repositories in Norway • The NORA project (Norwegian Open Research Archive) • Collaboration advantages • Alternatives to NORA • Comparisons • Future development
Institutional repository (IR) – a definition • digital collection capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community (SPARC) http://www.sparceurope.org/Repositories/ • an online locus for collecting and preserving – in digital form – the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution (Wikipedia, 2006) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository
The content of an IR • Varies from repository to repository depending on the institution’s policy • In general: • Peer-reviewed articles (pre-print and post-print) • Conference articles • Theses (PhD and masters) • Working papers • Book chapters • Various presentations
Open access on Norway • The Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR) recommended in a letter to the member institutions in 2005 that their institutions should: • Set up and develop institutional open publishing archives… • Cooperate with other institutions with regard to a collective publishing archive • Adopt guidelines recommending that authors publish their scientific articles in parallel, i.e. publish their scientific articles both in scientific journals and in the institution's own publishing archive
IRs in Norway • University of Oslo • Masters theses • PhD theses • Reports • DUO-software
University of Bergen • Journal articles • PhD theses • Masters theses • DSpace
University of Tromsø • Currently: • Masters theses on a VT ETD-db platform • DSpace installation in progress • The Munin service available in September
Norwegian University of Science and Technology • Masters and PhD theses • Reports • Conference papers • Diva
Pepia project • A joint project between BIBSYS and 22 libraries • Estimated date of completion: November 2006
The NORA project • Part I - 2005 • Establish a national search service for open institutional repositories (IRs) in Norway; the service will be part of the Norwegian Digital Library (NDB) • This includes the development of an OAI-PMH harvesting service • Stimulate Norwegian universities, university colleges and other research institutions to establish local institutional repositories • Create a harmonised metadata model for Norwegian IRs • Make the service available through a standard search protocol (for example SRU/W) for use in local search systems (such as library portals) • Establish the service as part of NDB’s common search system through a standard search protocol (for example SRU/W) • Supervise area development and inform the Norwegian research community on open repositories and open access in general
Part II – 2006 • Continue development of the national search service for open IRs in Norway. • This also includes implementation of Open URL support • Assist local IRs to facilitate for metadata harvesting • Harvest and ascertain quality of metadata in local IRs • Make NORA available internationally through global vendors of search services • Harmonise use of indexing schema • Develop an URN:NBN-service together with the national library, and establish an internationally adapted resolution service • Create support for submission of articles to the IRs through Frida, a CRIS used by the largest Norwegian universities. • Establish an information web-site about Open Access in a Norwegian context • Supervise area development and inform the Norwegian research community on open repositories and open access in general
Collaboration advantages • Financial advantages • Central access point to all IR resources in Norway • Standardization • Required support for OAI-PMH • Common metadata model • Norwegian Science Index • Submission via CRIS • Support for SRU/W etc.
Alternatives to NORA • Disciplinary repositories • arXiv.org • EconPapers • OAI service providers • OAIster • BASE • Google and Google Scholar • Scirus
NORA compared to other services • Search limited to Norwegian academic resources • Facilitated participation • Subject searching • Integration with CRIS • Main target – a common gateway to Norwegian research documents
Future developments • Common vocabulary for document types and resource types • Add new repositories to NORA • Version control • Implement the use of the Norwegian Science Index for subject indexing purposes • Lobbyism – make Norwegian research funding bodies to make self-archiving a pre-requisite when funding research