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The Stars My DestinationFrom idealism & aspiration to service deliveryGareth J JohnsonDocument Supply & Repository ManagerDavid Wilson LibraryUniversity of Leicester
19th Feb 2010
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Image © Chris Moore
Gully Foyle
• It is the study of a man completely lacking in imagination or ambition, Gulliver Foyle. Fate transforms "Gully" Foyle in an instant; shipwrecked in space, then abandoned by a passing luxury liner
• Foyle becomes a monomaniacal and sophisticated monster bent upon revenge. Wearing many masks, learning many skills, this "worthless" man pursues his goals relentlessly; no price is too high to pay.
Overview
Leicester University• Top 20 in all National tables
– 91% student satisfaction rate– 6th Highest citations rates relative to size
• 23,000 students– 41% Distance Learners
• Around 1000 academic staff– 93% submitted for RAE ’08– 87% determined to be producing
internationally significant research
• 4 Colleges– Moved from faculty structure this academic
year
LRA Secret Origins
• Founded as Library project 2006
• Academic support but not direct involvement
• Secondment of 0.5fte manager
• Secondment 0.5fte administrator
• Full-text purist at start– RAE 2007/8 ingest of 2000+ metadata
records
• 2008 moves towards service
TheLRA
TEAM
The LRA Method
• Fully mediated– Self-archiving option
• Self archiving trial 2 years ago
• Research and nothing else– Top level decision and ongoing ethos– Educational and non-scholalry objects sent elsewhere…
• Contents– The usual melange of documents, images, software and
data– Focus on author’s final versions unless © says otherwise
• Author Licence – Signed first time
Licence to Kill
What’s in the LRA: Materials
Article 70%
Book/chapter13%
Thesis6%
Con-fer-
ence Paper
1%
Other11%
Items in the LRA
Full text ~25-35%
What’s Used in the LRA: Items
Article49%
Article (NFT)11%
Book (NFT)9%
Book Chap-ter1%
Conference Paper11%
Conference Paper (NFT)2%
Disserta-tion1%
Report4%
Software2%
Thesis10%
Item Type in LRA Top 100 Access 2009
• Comprises– Over 4,400 items (>25% full text)– RSS feeds for collections and departments– Commerce using it to ID & assess collaborators– Core team to enable archiving and provide advice
• Webometrics– A measure of their visibility and scholarly regard– 165th ranked HEI Repository globally– Highly ranked HEI Repository in the UK
• #13 Cambridge• #14 Brunel• #15 SAS• #16 Leicester/LRA• #17 Huddersfield• #18 SOAS
LRA Today
What’s in the LRA: College
Arts, Human-ities and Law
16%
Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychol-
ogy36%
Other1%
Science and Engineering26%
Social Science 22%
Proportion of items in the LRA
What’s Used in the LRA: CollegeArts,
Humani-ties and
Law26%
Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychol-
ogy23%
Other3%
Science and Engineering32%
Social Science
16%
Proportion of items in LRA top 100 (2009)By College
Who’s Using the LRA?
VisitsDec 09 +25% Jan 10 +20%
Outreach & Engagement
• Information librarians– Alerts and raising awareness
• Personal visits– Dept Meetings & Champions– Research Office collaborations
• Social networking– Twitter and RSS feeds– Twitter discussions with local community– Frequent blogged activities
Dark Forces Rising
Mandates @ Leicester• Leicester Research Publications Policy
– Enacted by VC and Senate May 2009– Owned by the Research Office & Library jointly– Full-text to be deposited in LRA – Bibliographic data added to the Leicester RED
• Where © doesn’t allow immediate deposit– Metadata only record created– Full-text added at appropriate time
• Impact– Yet to bite home with many academics– Has seen a major upswing in deposits and enquiries– LRA more firmly on many (if not all) Dept. agendas
Mandates @ Leicester
• …from 1st June 2009, academic staff are required to submit their research publications to both the open access web-based Leicester Research Archive (LRA) and the internal central research publications database (RED).
• applies to all publications from 1 January 2006 onwards, although staff are welcome to submit items published earlier than this.
• This submission requirement is in addition to any specific requirements made by research funders, as a condition of receipt of funding.
Theses Mandate
• All theses 2008-> mandated for e-deposit on LRA– Defined by Graduate Office & Senate– Final submitted, corrected version alongside print– Definite version remains printed copy(s) in archive
• Submission and copyright declaration form– Student agrees to deposit in LRA & Ethos– Assures no 3rd Party © issues– 3rd party copyright issues and awareness workshops– Support for academics as much as PhD students
• Two options for postponement– Temporary Moratorium allowing up to three year delay– Permanent Embargo– Alternative -> excised version on LRA
Ethos
• Retrospective digitisation requests – Requirement of contacting author & signing of author
license– Funded for approx 100 items a year
• Tracing authors major time and throughput constraint– Access to alumni database helping– More staff time available to chase– Most requests in 2009 unfulfilled
• Issues outstanding with Ethos– Variable quality scans produced– Slow response to enquiries– First requestor pays funding stream– Academic confusion between LRA and Ethos
CRIS & the LRA
• REF Preparation WG– Moves to integrate LRA & RED– Technical and political challenges
• Post-CRIS implementation– Role and integration of LRA– Merge, subsume, satellite or replace
• Pan-institution information systems collaboration– Media contacts, consultancy and personal web
spaces
Closing Thoughts
• Gareth J Johnson, DS&R Manager– [email protected] extn 2039
• Valérie, Margaret & Claire, LRA Administrators– [email protected]/[email protected] extn 2039
• LRA sites
Contacts
Open access & the LRAwww.le.ac.uk/li/lra
LRA Repository Sitelra.le.ac.uk