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Open Access (OA) Repositories

Laurian Williamson, Open Access Adviser, Centre for Research Communications,

University of NottinghamNECOBELAC Training Event, Dublin,

Ireland, 09th May 2012

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Outline

• OA Repositories• Green and Gold• Content types• Repository drivers and

barriers• Copyright and licensing• Sherpa services:• RoMEO, JULIET,

OpenDOAR

• The Repositories Support Project (RSP)

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What is Open Access Literature?

“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most

copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet

and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. “

Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm

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What is a repository?

• A mechanism for managing and storing digital content

• Subject or institutional in their focus• Wide range of content deposited for a variety

of purposes and users• Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata

Harvesting and/or RSS) the metadata can then be harvested by external services and exposed to the wider world

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OA Repositories…the ‘Green’ Route

• Authors deposit pre-print, post-print, or publisher’s pdf

• As well as, not instead of, traditional journal publishing

• Institutional, subject-based, or national repositories– TARA (Trinity College, University of Dublin)– UK PubMed Central– HAL (Hyper Article on Line)

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The Gold Route

• Publish articles in an open-access journalor

• Publish in a “hybrid” journal that offers an open-access publishing option alongside traditional methods

• http://www.doaj.org /

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Types of materials stored in repositories

• Journal articles• Bibliographic references (metadata only)• Books, sections and chapters• Conference and workshop papers• Theses and Dissertations• Unpublished reports & working papers• Datasets• Educational resources and learning objects• Multimedia and audio-visual materials• Software• Patents

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Drivers

• Scholarly communication• Improves research management• Increases visibility and impact of research outputs• Global ‘Open Education’ Movement• Developing a digital preservation policy• Ready for REF 2014

- CERIF4REF plug-ins for repositories which allow institutions to efficiently submit REF compliant publications data

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Barriers

• Copyright confusion• Complicated workflows• Lack of ‘buy-in’• Staffing and technology issues• Lack of advocacy• Apathy• Publishers policies

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Creative Commonshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/

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Copyright and self-archiving

• RoMEO http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ • Contains publishers' general policies on self-

archiving of journal articles and certain conference series

• Each entry provides a summary of the publisher's policy, including what version of an article can be deposited, where it can be deposited, and any conditions that are attached to that deposit

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RoMEO functions

• Interpretation and clarification of publisher policies

• Dialogue with stakeholders, particularly publishers and funders

• ‘Honest broker’ role

• Human and machine-readable interfaces

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Growth of RoMEO

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RoMEO colours

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JULIET http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/

• List of funder OA requirements• Links to policies• Sorting by funding agency or country• Guidance on: OA Archiving, OA Publishing,

Data Archiving, and general information on compliance and link to the funders position statement/policy on OA

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OpenDOARhttp://www.opendoar.org/

• Authoritative directory of OA repositories• 2000 listings• Search for repositories• Search repository contents• A wide range of statistical charts, for example: - repositories by country; repositories by

contintent; repositories by subject

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Repositories Support Project

- Initially a 2.5 year JISC funded project September 2006 – March 2009 Lead Institution – University of Nottingham Partner Institutions – University of Southampton,

Aberystwyth University, Digital Curation Centre (University of Edinburgh), UKOLN (University of Bath).

- Second phase April 2009 – July 2012• University of Nottingham

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The RSP…

• Support growth and development of open access repositories

• Provides advice and guidance on OA• CPD events for the repository community• Build repository capacity• Enhance skills• Improve take-up and development of

institutional repositories in the UK

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The RSP Offers…

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RSP Events

Conferences

Residential Schools

WebinarsTechnical Workshops

Skills Training

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State of the Nation Survey

• 74 responses• 58% use Eprints and 27% use Dspace• Mediated deposit – Fully 21%, Partially = 51%• Full-text only = 24%• Policy mandates = 41% yes and 59% no• Preservation policy – 55% yes and 45% no• Lead responsibility for the repository – 86% library• Survey data available from RSP Wiki

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Repositories of interest

• SciELO Public Health http://www.scielosp.org/• rian – pathways to Irish Research http

://rian.ie/ • The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/• HSAP Resources Repository

http://repos.hsap.kcl.ac.uk/

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Finally….

Thanks and Questions

laurian.williamson@nottingham.ac.uk

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