Repository Developments University of Leeds, 29th November 2007 Peter Cliff With thanks to Jackie & RSP for ideas and slides
The Buzz Mandates Conferences Depot Digital Curation Centre Digital Repositories Programmes Directory of Open Access Journals Sun PASIG DAREnet LOREnet Repositories Research Team Repositories Support Project eBank DRIVER SURF/DEST Funding Opportunities Exemplar Projects Software News Events JISC UKoRR Statistics SPARC Open Access Anything Else
Repository Developments Overview: Where are we coming from? Where are we now? Where are we going?
Where are we coming from? or Why are we here? 1 Scholars share their knowledge, always have for example, the discovery of penicillindiscovery of penicillin Publishing facilitated sharing The Internet arrives Cost becomes an avoidable barrier Open Access
Where are we coming from? or Why are we here? 2 JISC Information Environment “ build an on-line information environment providing secure and convenient access to a comprehensive collection of scholarly and educational material” JISC IE information environment development strategy JISC Strategy Aim 1: Priority 7 “ innovative and sustainable ICT infrastructure, services and practice that support institutions in meeting their mission” “Build a national infrastructure of interoperable digital repositories (addressing institutional, subject and learning object repositories)” JISC Strategy
Where are we now? JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme
The Numbers OpenDOAR reports over 1000 Repositories! =&groupby=r.rDateAdded&orderby=&charttype=growth&width=600&height=350&caption=Growth%20of% 20the%20OpenDOAR%20Database%20-%20Worldwide
The Numbers II ROAR reports over 7,000,000 records!
The Numbers III OpenDOAR suggests UK doing well!
Manadates in the UK ROARMAP lists 1 Institutional Mandate Brunel University School of Information Systems Computing and Mathematics 1 Departmental Mandate Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton 13 Funder Mandates, including: AHRC, JISC, Arthritis Research Foundation, British Heart Foundation, Department of Health (UK), ESRC, MRC, NERC, BBSRC, Wellcome TrustAHRCJISCArthritis Research FoundationBritish Heart FoundationDepartment of Health (UK)ESRCMRC NERCBBSRCWellcome Trust Source:
RSP News News and events Events programme Institutional Support & Mentoring
Open Access News Lots going on – check: SPARC/SPARCeurope
If You Don’t Know Already… UKCoRR DRIVER APSR
Search Service News – Not Much Search services OAIster & Intute Repository Search BASE ARROW GoogleScholar
Conferences and Events – Recent UKCoRR 23 rd November 2007, Nottingham, UK Sun PASIG Meeting & 14 th -16 th November 2007, Paris, France
Conferences and Events – Coming Up Getting the Most Out of Your Institutional Repository 3 rd December 2007, Beltsville, Maryland, USA Open Repositories & Call for papers deadline: 7 th or 9 th December! 1 st -4 th April 2008, Southampton, UK
Funding Opportunities JISC Circular 05/07: Digital Repositories Deadline: 14 th January 2008, 12pm JISC ITT: Study into Evolution of Working Practices Deadline: 13 th December 2007, 12pm Other JISC calls at: Eprints Call for Plugins Deadline: 31 st January 2008
Where are we going? Still building the network Still persuing Open Access Data/Information Management Web services & Transparency
Where are we going? THIS IS OK! Still building the network Still pursuing Open Access Data/Information Management Web services & Transparency
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Repository Developments Peter Cliff, UKOLN