The Repositories Landscape and the RSP MIMAS Open Forum Bill Hubbard 9 th July 2008
The Open Access landscape Open Access Journals Open Access Repositories Repositories work alongside traditional and OA publication models Offer Open Access benefits Offer additional benefits for authors, researchers, institutions, research funders and research process
Why institutional repositories? Practical reasons use institutional infrastructure integration into work-flows and systems support is close to academic users and contributors The OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and access many repositories subject-based portals or views institutional storage and support
Repositories Institutions have repositories open to institutions academics Networks of repositories SHERPA, DARENet, ARROW - country networks DRIVER - European network Some specific subject repositories arXiv - 482,478 items UKPMC - 948,500 full-text articles AgentLink Publications Clearinghouse items
Rise of Repositories Directory of repositories - OpenDOAR open access repositories started registration in added in and nearly 200 added in first half % are institutional
Repositories by Continent
European Repositories
Repositories in Russell & 1994 Groups University of Bath Birkbeck University of Birmingham University of Bristol University of Cambridge Cardiff University University of Durham University of East Anglia University of Edinburgh ( University of Essex ) University of Exeter University of Glasgow Goldsmiths Queens University ( University of Reading ) Royal Holloway University of St Andrews University of Sheffield SOAS University of Southampton University of Surrey University of Sussex University of Warwick UCL University of York Imperial College King's College London Lancaster University University of Leeds University of Leicester University of Liverpool Loughborough University LSE University of Manchester University of Newcastle University of Nottingham University of Oxford Queen Mary
Repository content Postprints Preprints Datasets Learning objects Videos Sound files linkage between these objects Theses Dissertations Royalty publications Conference papers Technical reports Grey literature
Institutional repository - usage Exposure for harvesting... Linkage to departmental pages Linkage to personal pages - career logs RAE/REF - citation and usage analyses Beyond pdf - text and data-mining Overlay journals Virtual Research Environments Web mash-ups and tagging
Assistance - examples RSP - Intute Repository Search - irs.ukoln.ac.uk The Depot - depot.edina.ac.uk SHERPA - OpenDOAR - and ~/search RoMEO - JULIET - BASE - digital.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php DRIVER - UKCoRR -
RSP - Repositories Support Project Website - Briefing Papers Repository Managers - Senior Managers - Technical Outreach Programme Professional Briefing Series - Workshops - Surgeries Summer and Winter Schools Events Support Programme Consultancy visits
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