Institutional repositories for research materials Sally Rumsey Project

Institutional repositories for research materials Sally Rumsey Project Manager: Institutional Repository University of Oxford

Context and Content • Repositories for scholarly research output/materials • Scholarly communication and open access • Repository developments • Developments at Oxford

New Laws of Librarianship 1. Libraries serve humanity 2. Respect all forms by which knowledge is communicated 3. Protect free access to knowledge 4. Use technology intelligently to enhance service 5. Honor the past & create the future Michael GORMAN (American Libraries 9/95: IFLA web)

Libraries serve humanity • Scholarly publications and other research output/materials • who produces it? • who uses it? • why?

Respect all forms by which knowledge is communicated • • Scholarly communications Formal publications Grey literature Images and other formats Data File formats Informal channels

Protect free access to knowledge • Barriers to access • Access to libraries • Serials crisis • Costs rising above inflation • Library budgets not rising to match • Other factors • Open access – DAOJ http: //www. doaj. org/

Budapest Open Access Initiative (2000) “free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. ” http: //www. soros. org/openaccess/read. shtml

OA and IRs • Two areas • journals and repositories • barriers to access • Recommendations and mandates • Ideals v Realism

Use technology intelligently to enhance service • • The rise of the institutional repository Researchers as depositors and end users Theses – improving service Preservation and curation Visibility and access Internal and external groups Aid the research process

Honour the past… • Digitisation existing objects • Using/adapting traditional library skills • Preservation

…and create the future • • Innovations Collecting and linking to data Cross searching PLo. S Biology etc UK thesis service JISC commitment International perspective

Oxford Research Archive • • • The bigger picture What we hope to achieve Selling points Staffing Software Content Documentation, publicity & advocacy Policies Progress so far Early adopters

Thorny Problems • • • Multiple repositories Bulk ingest – metadata enhancing Controlled vocabularies e. Theses copyright Persuading academics

Related projects at Oxford • • • Defining Image Access BVREH Paradigm CAIRO [BID bid] Preserv [and Preserv 2]

Oxford Research Archive Contacts • ORA URL http: //ora. ouls. ox. ac. uk • ORA website www. ouls. ox. ac. uk/ora • ORA email ORA@ouls. ox. ac. uk Sally Rumsey sally. rumsey@ouls. ox. ac. uk