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Use of repositories to aid strategy

Explore the state of play, growth, and content of repositories worldwide. Understand the problems they face and why they are not yet fulfilling their ultimate aim of producing the OA corpus. Discover the potential benefits of comprehensive repositories for institutions and how joining up different databases can provide a complete picture of research-related activity.

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Use of repositories to aid strategy

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  1. Use of repositories to aid strategy Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK

  2. Repositories: state of play • Around 1200 worldwide • Growing at a rate of around 1 per day • Institutional, mostly • Sometimes ‘centralised’ (subject-based) Key Perspectives Ltd

  3. Where they are Key Perspectives Ltd

  4. Growth in numbers Key Perspectives Ltd

  5. What they contain Key Perspectives Ltd

  6. But they have problems • Collecting content • ‘Self-archiving’ rate is still low • Overall Open Access rate is 15-18% Key Perspectives Ltd

  7. Regrettable, because… • They are not (yet) producing the OA corpus that is the ultimate aim, and which will enable: • Faster and more efficient progress of science • Text-mining and data-mining • The corpus for research assessment • They are not helping the institution to fulfil its mission to disseminate research Key Perspectives Ltd

  8. Daniel Coit GilmanFirst President, Johns Hopkins University Key Perspectives Ltd

  9. Regrettable, because… • They are not (yet) producing the OA corpus that is the ultimate aim which will enable: • Faster and more efficient progress of science • Text-mining and data-mining • The corpus for research assessment • They are not helping the institution to fulfil its mission to disseminate research • They are not (yet) providing the institution with the tools it could use for analysing and managing its research • They are not (yet) helping the institution raise its profile and its impact Key Perspectives Ltd

  10. The U.Southamptonconundrum The G-Factor (universitymetrics.com) Key Perspectives Ltd

  11. Key Perspectives Ltd

  12. What could be possible • Who is producing what • Where it is being published / performed / installed • How much impact it is having (by measuring citations and other things) • Where the upward trends are • Where the downward trends are • How much collaborative work is being done • With which other institutions Key Perspectives Ltd

  13. If all institutions had such databases in their repositories • Comparative analysis: • “How does our impact compare to theirs?” • “Is our engineering department getting more impact?” • “What results are we getting for the money we put into our physics department?” • “Are our strongest research departments attracting the right numbers of students?” Key Perspectives Ltd

  14. Joining up the dots • Link the repository to the CRIS and other institutional databases • Enables a complete picture of institutional research-related activity • Research workforce, its characteristics, dynamics and effectiveness • How variables interact or play out • New return on investment measures Key Perspectives Ltd

  15. EurOpenScholar • Led by the University of Liege (Rector, Professor Bernard Rentier) • Starting to address this ‘joining up’ issue • Group of universities that want to explore and discuss optimal ways forward in the digital age • Agenda that includes: • Explaining and promoting Open Access • Shared approach to developing new systems of assessment and measurement that are meaningful for universities rather than for publishers Key Perspectives Ltd

  16. Thank you for listening aswan@keyperspectives.co.uk www.keyperspectives.co.uk www.keyperspectives.com Key Perspectives Ltd

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