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The Repositories Landscape and the RSP

The Repositories Landscape and the RSP. MIMAS Open Forum Bill Hubbard 9 th July 2008. The Open Access landscape. Open Access Journals Open Access Repositories Repositories work alongside traditional and OA publication models Offer Open Access benefits

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The Repositories Landscape and the RSP

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  1. The Repositories Landscape and the RSP MIMAS Open Forum Bill Hubbard 9th July 2008

  2. The Open Access landscape • Open Access Journals • Open Access Repositories • Repositories work alongside traditional and OA publication models • Offer Open Access benefits • Offer additional benefits for authors, researchers, institutions, research funders and research process

  3. Why institutional repositories? • Practical reasons • use institutional infrastructure • integration into work-flows and systems • support is close to academic users and contributors • The OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and access many repositories • subject-based portals or views • institutional storage and support

  4. Repositories • Institutions have repositories • open to institution’s academics • Networks of repositories • SHERPA, DARENet, ARROW - country networks • DRIVER - European network • Some specific subject repositories • arXiv - 482,478 items • UKPMC - 948,500 full-text articles • AgentLink Publications Clearinghouse - 1403 items

  5. Rise of Repositories • Directory of repositories - OpenDOAR • www.opendoar.org • 1157 open access repositories • started registration in 2006 . . . • 200 added in 2007 • . . . and nearly 200 added in first half 2008 • 81% are institutional

  6. Repositories by Continent

  7. European Repositories

  8. Repositories in Russell & 1994 Groups • Queen’s University • ( University of Reading ) • Royal Holloway • University of St Andrews • University of Sheffield • SOAS • University of Southampton • University of Surrey • University of Sussex • University of Warwick • UCL • University of York • University of Bath • Birkbeck • University of Birmingham • University of Bristol • University of Cambridge • Cardiff University • University of Durham • University of East Anglia • University of Edinburgh • ( University of Essex ) • University of Exeter • University of Glasgow • Goldsmiths • Imperial College • King's College London • Lancaster University • University of Leeds • University of Leicester • University of Liverpool • Loughborough University • LSE • University of Manchester • University of Newcastle • University of Nottingham • University of Oxford • Queen Mary

  9. Repository content • Postprints • Preprints • Datasets • Learning objects • Videos • Sound files • linkage between these objects • Theses • Dissertations • Royalty publications • Conference papers • Technical reports • Grey literature

  10. Institutional repository - usage • Exposure for harvesting . . . • Linkage to departmental pages • Linkage to personal pages - career logs • RAE/REF - citation and usage analyses • Beyond pdf - text and data-mining • Overlay journals • Virtual Research Environments • Web 2.0 - mash-ups and tagging

  11. Assistance - examples • RSP - www.rsp.ac.uk • Intute Repository Search - irs.ukoln.ac.uk • The Depot - depot.edina.ac.uk • SHERPA - www.sherpa.ac.uk • OpenDOAR - www.opendoar.org and ~/search • RoMEO - www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo • JULIET - www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet • BASE - digital.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php • DRIVER - www.driver-support.eu • UKCoRR - www.ukcorr.org

  12. RSP - Repositories Support Project • Website - www.rsp.ac.uk • Briefing Papers • Repository Managers - Senior Managers - Technical • Outreach Programme • Professional Briefing Series - Workshops - Surgeries • Summer and Winter Schools • Events • Support Programme • Consultancy visits • support@rsp.ac.uk • 0845 257 6860

  13. Bill Hubbard bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk

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