repository developments ucca, farnham, 1 st november 2007 peter cliff

Repository Developments

UCCA, Farnham, 1st November 2007

Peter Cliff

Acknowledgements

A big thank you to:

Gareth Johnson

Jackie Knowles

and other colleagues of the RSP for their ideas and slides!

Repository Developments

Overview:

Where are we coming from?

Where are we now?

Where are we going?

Where are we coming from? orWhy are we here? 1

Scholars share their knowledge, always have for example, the discovery of penicillin

Publishing facilitated sharing

The Internet arrives

Cost becomes an avoidable barrier

Open Access

Where are we coming from? orWhy are we here? 2

JISC Information Environment“build an on-line information environment providing secure and convenient access to a comprehensive collection of scholarly and educational material”JISC IE information environment development strategy 2001-2005

JISC Strategy Aim 1: Priority 7“innovative and sustainable ICT infrastructure, services and practice that support institutions in meeting their mission”“Build a national infrastructure of interoperable digital repositories (addressing  institutional, subject and learning object repositories)”JISC Strategy 2007-2009

Where are we now?

JISC Repositories and preservation programme

Where are we now?

JISC Repositories and preservation programme

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres.aspx

Where are we now?

The repositories:

arxiv.org

You!

Where are we now?

The repositories worldwide:

Where are we now?

The repositories:

Where are we now?

RSP• News and Events

• Events Programme• http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/index.php#future

• Institutional Support and Mentoring

• Talk to Us and Each Other!

Where are we now?

Open Access• LOTS happening – check:

• http://www.eprints.org/news/• http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

Directory of Open Access Journals• http://www.doaj.org/

SPARC & SPARCeurope• http://www.arl.org/sparc/• http://www.sparkyawards.org/• http://www.sparceurope.org/

Where are we now?

Other sources of support:• UKCoRR

• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/UKCORR_Launch.html

• DRIVER• http://www.driver-repository.eu/• http://www.driver-support.eu/en/index.html

• APSR• http://www.apsr.edu.au/

Where are we now?

Search services• OAIster

• http://www.oaister.org/• http://www.oaister.org/dataproviders.html

• Intute Repository Search• http://irs.ukoln.ac.uk/

• ARROW• http://www.arrow.edu.au/• http://stats.nla.gov.au/arrow/

• GoogleScholar• http://scholar.google.co.uk/• http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/googlecrawling.htm

Where are we going?

Ithaca

Where are we going?

Still building the network Still persuing Open Access

Data/Information Management

Transparency

Where are we going?

Still building the network

Still pursuing Open Access

Data/Information Management

Transparency

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Questions?

Repository Developments

Peter Cliff, UKOLN

p.d.cliff@ukoln.ac.uk

support@rsp.ac.uk