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DRIVER Review, Athens 15 February 2008

Awareness Raising and Advocacy Programme

Bill Hubbard

DRIVER Review, Athens, February 2008


DRIVER Testbed objectives

« The first step towards a pan-European infrastructure for digital repositories »

1. Network of 50+ repositories

2. DR Infrastructure testbed for data harmonization and service orchestration

3. Studies

4. Advocacy and awareness services


Advocacy - Starting position

• Different countries have proved that working repositories can be built and that repository networks can be put together

• The challenge is to encourage every country to participate and to move beyond local networks to a European Vision

• Experience has shown that effective advocacy, support and promotion is essential in achieving take-up of repository systems


Advocacy action lines

DRIVER advocating . . .• Functioning national networks of repositories• Engagement of stakeholders• Permissive legal environment• Technical capabilities & systems• Community building and development


Deliverables - WP 8

• D8.1: Programme to address Repository Developers across the EU

• D8.2: Programme to address Institutional Managers in targeted regions or countries

• D8.3: Programme to address key research funders (or consortia of funders) in Europe

• D8.4: Other appropriate briefing/advocacy material

• D8.5: Programme to address selected academic subject-communities

• D8.6: Briefing papers for selected relevant agencies produced and circulated.

• D8.7: E-RAP available on the web

• D8.8: Active information exchange facilitated through section based on wiki structure and discussion lists

• D8.9 Exit strategy developed for the continuation of the E-RAP in the longer term


Action lines and deliverables

• Functioning national networks of repositories– D8.1 - D8.2 - D8.4

• Engagement of stakeholders– D8.2 - D8.4 - D8.5

• Permissive legal environment– D8.3 - D8.4 - D8.6

• Technical capabilities & systems– D8.6 - D8.7

• Community building and development– D8.7 - D8.8 - D8.9


How DRIVER advocacy is helping• Promotion of Open Access and repositories• Information on repository establishment• Information on forming national networks• Bringing together key contacts• Focus for repository development in a country• Advice for advocates, developers, agents of

change

Functioning national networks of repositories


http://www.driver-support.eu/en

DRIVER Support website


Overview

Information on Open Access


Building repositories

Building repositories


mentor

DRIVER Mentor service


Engagement of Stakeholders

How DRIVER advocacy is helping• Information sheets for different stakeholders• Website addresses different stakeholder needs• Speaking and presence at stakeholder

conferences• Advice on advocacy and materials for local

agents to use with local stakeholders


Posters and leaflets

for DRIVER outreach


Researchers

Information for Academics


Legal Environment

How DRIVER advocacy is helping• Promoting information and services

– permission to archive and direction to archive

• Promoting policy development with national and international funders– funding mandates are key

• Advising on development of services for authors within repositories– user-centred efficient ingest services are essential


Copyright

Legal issues - copyright


Funders

Legal issues - policies


RoMEO JULIET

External service information


Technical capabilities

For both Data Providers and Service Providers

DRIVER is developing:• enhanced technical infrastructure capabilities• standardisation of guidelines• test-bed exemplars of services

DRIVER is promoting these developments to users


Guidelines

DRIVER Guidelines


Community Building

How DRIVER advocacy is helping:• Providing focus for national development

through establishing contact networks• Supporting development of national

organisations through advice and case-studies

• DRIVER is developing a pan-European organisational framework for administrative, technical and advocacy development


wiki-EU

DRIVER Wiki


wiki-Spain

Wiki example


Advocacy impact

• 31 conferences• 7 workshops• 4,500 fliers distributed plus local off-prints• Support website has c.9,500 page requests per

month and rising• 5 countries mentioning DRIVER assistance

– Belgium - Spain - Ireland - Austria - Hungary


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Scope of dissemination success

• Recognised by the EC as key component of their eInfrastructure Strategy

• Explicit mentioning of DRIVER in the EUA Open Access recommendations

• Grants of national funders refer to DRIVER• Wide awareness and reference in OA

community • Approaches from Latin America, China, India,

South Africa


• For more information

www.driver-community.eu

[email protected]

Bill Hubbard

SHERPA Manager

[email protected]


Additional information

• Wiki• Workshops• Conferences• Tasks• Continuing advocacy


wiki


wiki-Austria


Workshops within international events

• Ghent 11/2006 (first period)

• Utrecht 15-16/1/2007 (first period)

• Brussels 19/1/2007 (first period)

• Geneva 18-20/4/2007• Ghent 10/5/2007• Vienna 13/6/2007 • Berlin 27/28/11/2007


DRIVER presented at 31 conferences (1)

• Krakow 8/6/2006 (EASE Workshop "Two Roads to Open Access“)• Copenhagen 29/8/2006• Alicante 22/9/2006 (DORSDL) • Goettingen 27/9/2006 (Annual DINI conference)• Glasgow 18-20/10/2006 (Open Scholarship) • Goettingen 7/11/2006 (Links4Science Workshop) • Helsinki 20-22/11/2006 (IST conference)• Bonn 23/11/2006 • Braga 27-28/11/2006 (2nd Portuguese OA Conference) • Berlin 6/12/2006 (DINI workshop)



• Brussels 6/2/2007 (FP7 Info day)• Brussels 15-16/2/2007 (Scientific Publishing in the European

Research Area)• Dublin 20/2/2007 (IUA meeting on Institutional Repository network

in Ireland) Lisbon 3/2007 (EEUA)• Geneva (CERN) 4/2007 OAI5• Santiago 5/2007 FESABID• The Hague 5/2007• Berlin 6/2007• Stockholm 6/2007 IATUL• Uppsala 6/2007 ETD



• Grenoble 6/2007 (EUNIS)• Berlin 7/2007 (DINI)• Singapore 8/2007 (DC Conference)• Lisbon 9/2007 • Padua 9/2007• Budapest 9/2007 (ECDL)University of New Hampshire 10/2007

(NSF)• Madrid 10/2007 (VII Workshop REBIUN)• Granada 11/2007 (ERIH Meeting)• Helsinki 11/2007 (Finnish OA conference)• Berlin 11/2007 (DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor joint workshop)


Tasks - Work Package 8

• Task 8. 1: Awareness raising for repository developers • Task 8.2: Awareness raising for institutional managers • Task 8.3: Awareness raising for research funders • Task 8.4: Awareness raising for selected subject communities• Task 8.5: Policy development programme • Task 8.6: European Repository Awareness Point


Continuing DRIVER Advocacy

• Institutions to set up repositories and form local networks for support

• Local advocacy to engage stakeholders• Encourage supportive mandates and policies• Adopt DRIVER technical development guidance• Contact DRIVER to take part in pan-European

organisation

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Documents

driver advocacy

driver outreach slide

driver support website

development d8

guidelines driver guidelines

service providers driver

wikieu driver wiki slide

advocacy development