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The IRIScotland Project

The IRIScotland Project. Philip Hunter Project Manager philip.hunter@ed.ac.uk. The IRIScotland Project. Stands for: 'Institutional Repository Infrastructure for Scotland'. The IRIScotland Project.

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The IRIScotland Project

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  1. The IRIScotland Project Philip Hunter Project Manager philip.hunter@ed.ac.uk JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  2. The IRIScotland Project Stands for: 'Institutional Repository Infrastructure for Scotland' JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  3. The IRIScotland Project • wasoriginally proposed by the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL), the National Library of Scotland and the two major public reference libraries in Glasgow and Edinburgh. • IRIScotland was conceived as a means to provide the ‘organisational and technological framework for a Scotland-wide institutional repository infrastructure for research’. JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  4. The IRIScotland Project seeks to bring about cultural and organisational changes by developing, in close co-operation with researchers and senior administrators, institutional policies, procedures and workflows conducive to open access publishing and self-archiving with a view to encouraging the rapid population of institutional repositories JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  5. The IRIScotland Project • seeks to achieve, across all the workpackages, a greater understanding of what is best done at institutional, regional, or national level, and within the context of relevant international developments JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  6. The IRIScotland Project • is building a pilot repository hosting service to make it possible for Scottish institutions that may not wish to set up their own repositories to increase the visibility of their research output • The hosting service may be developed beyond the life of the project by the NLS • A transitional hosting repository? JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  7. The IRIScotland Project • Is also implementing a harvester-based pilot cross-repository search and browse service to enhance exposure of the Scottish research output as a whole – a framework applicable to any regional or subject groupings that might become building blocks for a UK-wide digital repository infrastructure JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  8. What have we done so far? • Produced two development documents (October 2005 – January 2006) • Created a website and a project wiki • Experimented with two repository softwares (DSpace and Fedora) • Produced a Position Paper on the relative merits of DSpace and Fedora for a pilot hosting repository service (26 April 2006) • Built a test repository of metadata records (twice), covering the whole of the Scottish research output available for harvesting JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  9. What have we done so far? • Established a good working relationship with SCURL and Universities-Scotland • Conducted a successful nationwide survey of awareness of and attitudes to institutional repositories (15th March – 25th April 2006) • We are developing a metadata format for a nationwide network of repositories (workpackage 5: CDLR) • Informally surveyed materials available in Scotland which might better be accessed through a Scottish research portal • Informally surveyed materials of Scottish relevance which are available internationally JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  10. What are we doing next? • We have had discussions with Cambridge Science Abstracts on future developments in scientific communication, and possible futures for the technology • We are in discussion with Blackwells on the possibility of using CrossRef tools for the IRIScotland repository • Publication of an interim survey report • Development of an interim toolkit on workflows, good practice, institutional requirements, and cultural change (all project partners) • Creating the pilot hosting repository (NLS) • Creating the IRIScotland search and browse service (CDLR) • Focus group discussions, leading to the final version of the toolkit, and the refinement of the IRIScotland portal • Workshop dissemination (WWW2006) • Full publication of survey analysis in OCLC Systems and Services, Spring 2007 JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  11. The IRIScotland Project • Is 100% self-archiving ‘immediately reachable’? • The project is employing an empirical, rather than an ideological approach JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  12. The Survey JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  13. IRI-Scotland author survey:institutions 100 50 0 ECA GCU RGU Anon Paisley Abertay Dundee Glasgow Aberdeen Edinburgh Strathclyde St. Andrew’s JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  14. IRI-Scotland author survey:subject areas Physical Sciences n=32 (7%) Social & political studies n=23 (5%) Medicine and Health n=88 (18%) Anon n=46 (10%) Biological Sciences n=91 (19%) Maths n=28 (6%) Lang. and linguistics n=16 (3%) Informatics n=15 (3%) History & philosophy n= 24 (5%) JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006 Engineering & Technology n=47 (10%)

  15. IRI-Scotland author survey:attitudes to OA repositories Strongly against n=10 (2%) Mildly against n=26 (5%) Neutral n=59 (12%) Strongly in favour n=228 (47%) Mildly in favour n=160 (33%) JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  16. IRI-Scotland author survey:does your institution have a repository? No n=88 (18%) Unsure n= 288 (60%) Yes n=107 (22%) JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  17. IRI-Scotland author survey: Do you deposit publications yourself ('self-archive')? Yes n=29 (24%) No n=92 (76%) JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

  18. The IRIScotland Project Philip Hunter Project Manager philip.hunter@ed.ac.uk Charts prepared by Theo Andrew theo.andrew@ed.ac.uk JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop (EICC), 22 May 2006

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