Bernard RENTIERRector, University of Liège, Belgium

Chair, EOS

Through Repositories

are scanned by search engines

make the material available directly or through an e-print request

Should Repositories be central? thematic? institutional?

Central

Fail to gather everything ☹

Cannot impose mandates by lack of authority ☹

Make life easier for institutions ☺

Thematic

Only seductive in definite fields ☹

Cannot impose mandates by lack of authority ☹

Funder repositories

Fail to gather everything, only what they have funded ☹

Can impose mandate for funding, renewals or further

requests ☺

Can collect data automatically from IRs to generate

repertoires of the research they have funded ☺

Institutional repositories (IR)

Gather everything ☺

Can impose mandates for carreer progress ☺

Generate institutional repertoires automatically ☺

Can collect data automatically for their own repositories and

records ☺

IRs provide researchers with: The means to disseminate their work, free, to the World Secure storage (for completed work and for work-in-

progress) A location for unpublished supporting data One input-many outputs (CVs, publications) A personal marketing tool

IRs provide Universities with: A tool for research assessment A showcase of their research output

User-friendly interface

Top-down message

Communicate rationale

Good will, motivation —> carrot & stick

Stick : restrict official publication list (for promotions or internal grant applications) to that generated from full-text deposits in IR

Carrot :

Open Repository & Bibliography of Liège University

Developed in house using Dspace

18 months development

Launched Nov 26, 2008

After 13 months: 27,000 recordings, 68% full text, in ROAR’s top 50

Success due to mandate (enforced by status as only bibliographic source for in-house evaluations)

A collective tool to coach institutions wishing to set up an IR Informations Tips Dos and Don’ts References Statistics News and views Legal issues Etc.

Bernard RENTIER (Chairman), U. Liege, Belgium

Tom COCHRANE, QUT, Brisbane, Australia

William DAR, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

Stevan HARNAD, UQAM, Montréal, Québec & U. Southampton, UK

Keith JEFFERY, Sci & Tech Facilities Council, Swindon, UK

Sijbolt NOORDA, VSNU, The Netherlands

Stuart SHIEBER, Harvard U., Cambridge, USA

Ian SIMPSON, U. Stirling, UK

Peter SUBER, Harvard U., Cambridge, USA

John WILLINSKY, Stanford U., U. British Columbia & Simon Fraser U., USA

Alma SWAN, Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK

A collective tool to coach institutions wishing to set up an IR

Membership to support basic expenses 500 € / yr (institutional) 50 € / yr (individual)

www.openscholarship.org

Registry of Open Access Repositories

www.roar.org

Directory of Open Access Journals

www.doaj.org

EOS (Enabling Open Scholarship)

www.openscholarship.org