scholarly communication and institutional repositories scholars’ bank at the university of oregon...

Scholarly Communication and Institutional Repositories

Scholars’ Bank at the University of Oregon

A Presentation to the

ACRL Oregon & Washington

Joint Fall Conference 2004

by

Carol Hixson

Head, Metadata and Digital Library Services

http://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/home/

University of Oregon Libraries

http://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu

Getting Started

Investigate the Software

Investigate the Issues

ACRL Scholarly Communicationhttp://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholarlycommunication.htm

Reforming Scholarly Communicationhttp://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/principlesstrategies.htm

SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

http://www.arl.org/sparc/

The Case for Institutional Repositorieshttp://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html

Rationale for Institutional Repositories

New Scholarly Publishing Paradigm

Institutional Visibility and Prestige

Essential Elements of an Institutional Repository

Institutionally defined

Scholarly

Cumulative and perpetual

Open and interoperable

Issues in Scholarly Communicationhttp://www.arl.org/scomm/

Local Policy Framework

Submission policies

Metadata standards

Institutional commitment

Copyright and licensing

Division of responsibilities and clarification of roles

Develop Local Context

Provide an Overview

Scholarly Communication Overview

Answer Questions Up Front

Wellcome Trust and Open Accesshttp://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002766.html

Berlin Declaration on Open Accesshttp://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

Copyright and Commercial Publishers

SHERPAhttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Sample Policy on Copyright

Nitty Gritty Details

Submitting to Scholar’s Bank

A Step-by-Step Guide

last revised June 11, 2004

by Carol Hixson

http://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/irg/IR_submissionrev.pdf

Licensing Issues

Structure of Scholars’ Bank

Communities

Collections

• TitlesItems

Sample Community within Scholars’ Bank

Sample Community within Scholars’ Bank

Collections within Communities

Individual Titles within Collections

Individual Files Make Up Titles

Challenges

CulturalGetting people to submit

Overcoming fear of technology

TechnicalNo support for controlled vocabularies

No ability to modify the submission template or metadata fields for different collections

Since it’s open source, developments are slow

Current Efforts

Pilot project with Google

Hosting ejournals

Electronic theses

Undergraduate Research Award program

Contact Information for Scholars’ Bank

Carol Hixson

Head, Metadata and Digital Library Services

University of Oregon Libraries

chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu

(541) 346-3064