UCL LIBRARY SERVICES The DARTEurope project Towards developing

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES The DART-Europe project Towards developing a European theses portal Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer e-mail: p. ayris@ucl. ac. uk

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Content q Open Access in Europe q DART-Europe

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Content q Open Access in Europe

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Activity in the UK q SHERPA has spear-headed the construction of 20 repositories in research-led universities q http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/ q Romeo publisher listing an international asset qhttp: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/romeo. php q UK Parliamentary enquiry into STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publishing q http: //www. publications. parliament. uk/pa/cm 200304/cmselect/cmsc tech/39902. htm

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Open Access elsewhere in Europe q Many other national European countries engaged in Open Access activity q DARE in the Netherlands has created Open Access repositories in all Dutch universities qhttp: //www. darenet. nl/en/page/language. view/home q Cream of Science now available q. Contains research outputs of 219 Dutch scientists q 46, 146 publications q 60% of these are full-text papers

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Pan-European developments q Pan-European developments now underway q EU-funded study on scholarly publishing has appeared q http: //www. enssib. fr/divers/liber 2005/VANDOORENLIBER 2005. pdf q European meeting in Brussels in February 2007 to take this forward q Open. DOAR q q Global listing of academic Open Access repositories Funded by JISC, CURL, SPARC Europe, OSI Working with Directory of Open Access Journals from University of Lund http: //www. opendoar. org/ q GUIDE q A European collaboration on e-theses championed by JISC and SURF q New website to be http: //www. guide-theses. eu/.

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Content q Open Access in Europe q DART-Europe

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES DART-Europe q Founding academic partners q q q UCL Library Services Oxford University Library Services Trinity College Dublin Dartington College of Arts Ethos (UK) has Observer status on DART-Europe Project Board Other European academic partners being invited into membership q Pro. Quest Information and Learning q Technology partner q http: //www. dart-europe. eu/

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES DART-Europe partners - discussions underway q Di. VA for the Nordic countries q http: //www. diva-portal. org/about. xsql q Diss. Online for Germany q http: //www. dissonline. de/index_e. htm q Ethos in the UK q http: //www. ethos. ac. uk/ q Colleagues in: q Catalonia q Hungary q Finland

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Objectives q To work together for the discovery, retrieval and use of research theses from European universities q q q Working in an Open Access environment Work underpinned by the Berlin Declaration on Open Access European in scope Aligned with national E-Theses developments in each member country And other pan-European developments To provide a ‘vanilla’ service, fully Open Access, which is free at point of use q To develop a business model for Value-Added services

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Architectures Institution/ Country/ Consortium UCL Dartington Netherlands IR IR IR Optional service Platform International Platform Optional Preservation Platform Nordic Ireland countries Oxford Germany etc. Deposit Software Deposit Local /National Platforms & Access Spain IR IRs IRs OAI DART-Europe portal DEEP OAI OAI Pro. Quest Optional DART-Europe repository service hosted by Pro. Quest

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Layers of service q DART-Europe will q Create a ‘vanilla’ service, conforming to Open Access principles q E-Theses can be deposited in Open Access repositories q Metadata harvested q European portal (DEEP) created for a European view q Content and software processes free at point of use q Other elements are optional and can be charged by Pro. Quest q Deposit tool q Hard copy purchase q Plagiarism/copyright check q Preservation platform

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Main DART-Europe outputs: Phase 1 q Customised deposit tool q DART-Europe repository service q DART-Europe portal (DEEP) qhttp: //www. dart-europe. eu/deep/ q Good practice guidance on E-Theses management q Dissemination

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Project timescales q Phase 1 q 18 months – June 2005 -December 2006 q Major technical development now completed q Deposit tool customised by partners q Hosted repository service available q DEEP portal has been created qhttp: //www. dart-europe. eu/deep/ q OAI Harvester has been developed q Initial partners identified q Discussions over Preservation Platform initiated

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES DEEP Portal

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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Link to Di. VA portal

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Full text from Di. VA

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Project timescales q Phase 2 (2007 -) q Enlarge partnership, especially from q. Southern Europe q. Eastern Europe q Define value-added services q. Optional to DART-Europe partners q. Can be charged q Technology watch to ensure systems are best of breed q Launch of DART-Europe as full service

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contacts q Paul Ayris, UCL Library Services, Co-Chair q p. ayris@ucl. ac. uk q Chris Pressler, Dartington College of Arts, Co-Chair q c. pressler@dartington. ac. uk q Website q http: //www. dartington. ac. uk/dart/index. asp q Project Team q dart-europe@dartington. ac. uk

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES And finally q Thanks for listening q Happy to hear any questions