digital repositories: essential information for academic librarians
TRANSCRIPT
DIGITAL REPOSITORIES: ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS
AURARIA LIBRARY
FEBRUARY, 2015
Outline
• Terminology
• Institutional Repositories• IRs in Colorado• IR software• Standard identifiers for digital objects in repositories• Digital preservation for IRs
• Disciplinary repositories
• Data repositories
• OAI-PMH
• The future
Terminology
• Institutional repository (IR)
• Disciplinary repository (Subject repository)
• Green open-access
• Post-print
• Author's accepted manuscript (AAM)
• SPARC author addendum
• Embargo period
• Pre-print server
• Sherpa Romeo
• Dark archive
Institutional Repositories [1]
Directory: http://www.opendoar.org/
Institutional Repositories [2]: Local instances
• Colorado / Wyoming Institutional Repositories (selected)
• University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Anschutz Medical Campus, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado Mesa University, and Colorado State University still using Digital Collections of Colorado
• Wyoming Scholars Repository (Digital Commons)
• University of Northern Colorado, Denver University and Colorado College and others use the Colorado Alliance's repository service, which is an Islandora implementation.
• Fort Lewis College has Fort Works, an Eprints implementation
Institutional Repositories [3]:Institutional Repository Software / Hosting
• Digital Commons
• DSpace
• EPrints
• Fedora
• Islandora
• Invenio / TIND
• Greenstone
• SobekCM
Institutional Repositories [4]:Digital Preservation
"The Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) iscommitted to the creation and management of asustainable environment for digital preservation.APTrust’s aggregated repository will solve one ofthe greatest challenges facing research librariesand their parent institutions – preventing thepermanent loss of scholarship and cultural recordsbeing produced today."
"The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) was formed toensure that the complete scholarly record is preservedfor future generations. DPN uses a federated approachto preservation. The higher education community hascreated many digital repositories to provide long-termpreservation and access. By replicating multiple darkcopies of these collections in diverse nodes, DPNprotects against the risk of catastrophic loss due totechnology, organizational or natural disasters."
Disciplinary Repositories
• Directory of disciplinary repositories (Simmons College) = http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Disciplinary_repositories
• Some major disciplinary repositories:• SSRN (Social Sciences Research Network)
• RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
• E-LIS (Eprints in Library and Information Science)
• PMC (PubMedCentral)
• Ag Econ Search (University of Minnesota)
Disciplinary repository screenshots
Focus: PubMed Central (PMC)
“PMC (PubMed Central) launched in 2000 as a free archive for full-text biomedicaland life sciences journal articles. PMC serves as a digital counterpart to the NLMextensive print journal collection; it is a repository for journal literature deposited byparticipating publishers, as well as for author manuscripts that have been submittedin compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy and similar policies of otherresearch funding agencies. Some PMC journals are also MEDLINE journals. Forpublishers, there are a number of ways to participate and deposit their content in thisarchive, explained on the NLM Web pages Add a Journal to PMC and PMCPolicies. Journals must be in scope according to the NLM Collection DevelopmentManual. Although free access is a requirement for PMC deposit, publishers andindividual authors may continue to hold copyright on the material in PMC andpublishers can delay the release of their material in PMC for a short period afterpublication. There are reciprocal links between the full text in PMC andcorresponding citations in PubMed. PubMed citations are created for content notalready in the MEDLINE database. Some PMC content, such as book reviews, isnot cited in PubMed.”
What is the Difference between PubMed Central and PubMed?
Data Repositories
Directories of Data Repositories
• Data repositories (Simmons College, OA Directory)
• Registry of Research Data Repositories
• Databib "Databib is a searchable catalog registry / directory/ bibliography of research data repositories."
Focus: Dryad Digital Repository
• Works with journals
• Requires use of the CC 0 license
• Located at http://datadryad.org/
• Costs $90
“DataDryad.org is a curated general-purposerepository that makes the data underlyingscientific publications discoverable, freelyreusable, and citable. Dryad has integrated datasubmission for a growing list of journals;submission of data from other publications is alsowelcome” -- http://datadryad.org/
Focus: GitHub
• A collection of software repositories
• Used for sharing code, programs, software
• Has paid and free options; free option used for open source
“GitHub is the largest code host on the planet withover 19.4 million repositories. Large or small, everyrepository comes with the same powerful tools.These tools are open to the community for publicprojects and secure for private projects.”
DMP = Data management plan
From the Wikipedia article, "Data management plan“
• Description of the data• How / When / Where data will be acquired• How the data will be processed• What file formats the data will be in, naming conventions• Version control• Metadata• Policies for access, sharing, and re-use• Long-term storage and data management• Budget
Review of OAI-PMH
• Open-Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
• Provides a way to create a "union catalog" of resources in digital repositories
• The metadata is indexed in WorldCat (including WCL), updated quarterly
Conclusion
• Institutional repositories convert libraries into publishers, and this has many long-term legal, ethical, and financial implications.
• Repositories exist in sort of a digital version of the Wild West
• Repositories with strong digital preservation practices and that use and maintain standard identifiers for the digital objects they publish will stand out from others.
• Most repositories will contain material of secondary or local-only importance, but a few “gems” will exist here and there.
• Libraries are competing with scholarly publishers (Odlyzko , 2013).
Coda
“Investigate the possibility of constructing the world’s first all-scholarship repository (ASR). [...] Conversations are currently ongoingon this matter. The Department of Energy has authorized the LosAlamos National Laboratory (LANL) to build the prototype ASR.” SOURCE