Modeling a Shared National Cross Digital Repository November 2013 Jean-Gabriel Bankier President & CEO, bepress

OSTP Mandate “...mandating public access to metadata, peer-reviewed publications, and digital data arising from federal funding” - OSTP February 22, 2013

SHARE SHared Access Research Ecosystem - SHARE Proposal June 7, 2013 “...integrate higher education’s investments to date into a system of cross-institutional digital repositories ”

Spark set for a U.S. National Repository Flags by

A National Repository Why Federation Matters “ Ownership is authority” - Bradley Wheeler, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, Indiana University “If we don’t aggregate ourselves, we will be aggregated.” - James Hilton, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian, University of Michigan Quotes From: “Examining Our Collective Capacity”, ARL Fall Forum—Mobilizing the Research Enterprise, October 10th-11th, 2013, Arlington Virginia “Scale matters and we cannot be slow to this party” - James Hilton, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian, University of Michigan

National Repository Models *includes metadata only or restricted access records **estimate Flags by Recolecta (Spain) 1,570,000 * Pionier Network (Poland)1,500,000 JAIRO (Japan)1,210,000 RCAAP (Portugal) 500,000 * NARCIS (The Netherlands)340,000 * HAL (France)240,000 DIVA (Sweden) 140,000 ** NORA (Norway)40,000 RIAN (Ireland) 30,000

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Attributes of A Great National Repository Moving beyond merely providing ‘access’ Discoverable Engaging Interesting

Interesting: Subject-specific exploration Leveraging the power of subject repositories

Interesting: Interactive discipline browsing

UrbanaLibrarians Interesting: Reader Reactions Just discovered the Digital Commons Network. A brilliant site for Unlatching Knowledge! Rad new database of open access scholarship from Bepress! Plus it looks cool! If you love knowledge and information, this is an awesome link

Making Content Discoverable Moving beyond merely providing‘access’ Discoverable Engaging Interesting

SEO of a Subject-based Commons Search Engine Optimization

Cross-linking Links on the article pages

Cross-linking Creating ubiquitous connections

Effective Search Options Ubiquitous search boxes

Twice as much traffic is sent to member sites.

Repository I guess I ’ ll just go back to Google. Standard Research Path Google to PDF and back to Google

Flow Seamlessly Ubiquitous cross-linking

Make it Engaging Moving beyond merely providing ‘access’ Discoverable Engaging Interesting

“I must say, this is the most wonderful feature a journal can offer! To see how many times my article has been downloaded where it was downloaded is fascinating.” - Sr. Cyndi Nienhaus, CSA, Ph.D., Marian University, Oct. 3, 2013

Engaging: community

Iowa State University Slide created by Harrison Inefuku Iowa State University

A national repository must be: Discoverable Engaging Interesting ✴ Compelling organization ✴ Informative interface ✴ Interactive ✴ Promotion ✴ Community ✴ Competition ✴ Strong SEO ✴ Ubiquitous inter-connection links and cross-search

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