daedalus - an eprints case study william j nixon service development susan ashworth advocacy
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DAEDALUS -An ePrints Case Study
William J NixonService Development
Susan AshworthAdvocacy
The Catalyst of Crisis
• Crisis in Scholarly Communication• Alternative Publishing Models and the
push for self-archiving• Pressure on Library budgets, especially
in STM areas• Other projects had looked at other
solutions - e.g. GAELS and collaboration
Context
Create Change at Glasgow
• Create Change event in April 2002• 40 Academics attended • Issues gained momentum at GU• Range of solutions discussed
– Self-archiving– New Journals
Create Change screenshot
DAEDALUS
• Part of the FAIR Programme• Partner with the CURL SHERPA Project• Evolved from the implementation of our
eprints service• Two strands
– Advocacy– Service Development
Issues we will explore
• Cultural– Encouraging use
• Organisational– IPR and copyright– Plagiarism
• Technical– Standards and formats
Advocacy
• Advocacy Remit• Our Strategies• Issues identified by academics
The Major issues are NOT technical
Remit
• to create an Open Access culture• to gather content for the range of Open
Archives services• to provide advice on policy implications,
guidelines and processes of the services• to formulate an exit strategy that ensures
a full and fully used service
Strategies at Glasgow
• Project Board including an academic from each of three territorial subject groups
• Contacting those academics who are already self-publishing
• Taking over departmental publications databases (RAE)
Strategies cont….
• Raising debate within departments - programme of attending departmental meetings
• Regional meetings, possible subject based, in collaboration with other FAIR projects
• Attempting to get strategic decisions at a high level within the University e.g. on submission of theses
Assistance for Staff
• Focus for publisher copyright policies• Range of repositories• Mediated submission service
– Record enhancement – File conversion
Project RoMEO
• FAIR Project• Investigating the Rights Issues of Self-
Archiving - central issue for researchers• Range of Questionnaires
– Author– Data Provider– Service Provider
RoMEO Screenshot
Concerns
• None• Plagiarism• Commercial gain• Integrity of the work will be compromised• That no journal will subsequently publish it• That it will break existing copyright
agreements with publishers
-From Project RoMEO Author Questionnaire
• Who benefits?• Operational matters• Document formats and Copyright• Collection policy• Quality control
Other Concerns
Service Development
• Published papers / ePrints• Pre-prints, grey literature, technical
reports, working papers• Doctoral theses• Research Finding Aids• Administrative Documents• Search service
Complementary Resource
The University of Glasgow ePrints repository will exist, not in competition with the subject based archives, which are already established but rather as a complementary Institutional resource.
Eprints.org
• Developed at the Electronics and Computer Science Department of the University of Southampton.
• ePrints version 2.0 now launched• We are currently running 1.1.1
eprints.org was previously supported by CogPrints, funded by JISC as part of its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme.
ePrints at Glasgow
ePrints Record
DSpace
• Development driven by Academics at MIT
• Freely available from November 2002• Digital Preservation component• Devolved model• Cambridge• Installation begins January 2003
DSpace at MIT
E-Theses
• Virginia Tech software• Complementary and voluntary• Strong Faculty support• Partners with:
Theses Alive! and E-Theses Project
OAI Theses Catalog
Field of Dreams Principle
If we build it, will you come?- Kevin Costner (after W.P. Kinsella)
http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus