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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
(541) 346-3064