Advocacy and Nottinghams Repositories Bill Hubbard SHERPA and RSP Manager Subject Services Group Meeting University of Nottingham, 14 May 2009

Open Access Open Access is driving change within the Scholarly Communications landscape Open Access - definitions Open Access Journals Open Access Repositories Open Access... and open access....

Progress so far Two routes using open access, but to slightly different destinations Open Access Publishing DOAJ 4,066 journals in the directory Currently 1,459 searchable journals 27,3678 articles accessible Houghton Report Open Access Repositories lets see...

Rise of repositories Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR over 1370 open access repositories started registration in added in and over 300 added in 2008

Institutional repositories The OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and access many repositories subject-based portals or views subject-based classification and search institutional storage and support Practical reasons use institutional infrastructure integration into work-flows and systems support is close to academic users and contributors

Repositories & global structures Data Providers and Service Providers Global network acting as one virtual repository Innovative services to support discovery and use Repositories can vary... institutional, disciplinary, centralised, networks, etc contain post-prints, eTheses, data, rich output, etc Encouraging new processes to support research These structures now allow new developments

Repositories around the world

Repositories in Europe

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 effective coverage of the UK HE research base...

Issues (Non-issues of plagiarism and peer-review) Copyright Mandates Cultural change Workflows Management within institutions Terminology post-print, publishers version colours...

Developments Primary data archiving Text mining Data mining Rich research outputs Web 2.0 Social and technical attitudes

Capitalising on repositories Open Access Greater availability and wider readership Increased citations New contacts and research possibilities Information management REF and evaluation As resource for academic services Support for new forms and systems of research communication and collaboration

Open access (OA) mandates UK Research Councils Charities & Independent funders Wellcome Trust British Heart Foundation Cancer Research UK Etc International European Research Council

Open access (OA) mandates UK: RCUK AHRC BBSRC ESRC MRC NERC STFC UK: charities/ independent funders British Heart Foundation Cancer Research UK Wellcome Trust etc International Government and independent funders

Funder policies: RCUK Directly-Incurred Costs For Research Council grants, publication fees may be included as a directly-incurred cost under the Other costs heading on the standard electronic application form.* Indirect Costs: Full Economic Costs If universities do set up such [publication] funds, they will form part of the cost base used for calculating their standard rate for the indirect costs of research.* * RIN Briefing Note on Payment of Publication Fees

Introduction to Open Access Journals Repositories Stage 1 Introduction Academics (as researchers and authors) Senior administrators School Managers and administrative staff Information professionals

Introduction to Open Access Journals Repositories Stage 1 Introduction Academics (as researchers and authors) Senior administrators School Managers and administrative staff Information professionals

Introduction to Open Access Journals Repositories Dealing with questions and general outreach Stage 1 Introduction Stage 2 Familiarisation Academics (as researchers and authors) Senior administrators School Managers and administrative staff Information professionals

Introduction to Open Access Journals Repositories Dealing with questions and general outreach Stage 1 Introduction Stage 2 Familiarisation Academics (as researchers and authors) Senior administrators School Managers and administrative staff Information professionals

Introduction to Open Access Journals Repositories Dealing with questions and general outreach * General information * Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings * News alerts/updates on OA developments Stage 1 Introduction Stage 2 Familiarisation Stage 3 Embedding Academics (as researchers and authors) Senior administrators School Managers and administrative staff Information professionals

Introduction to Open Access Journals Repositories Dealing with questions and general outreach * General information * Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings * News alerts/updates on OA developments Stage 1 Introduction Stage 2 Familiarisation Stage 3 Embedding Academics (as researchers and authors) Senior administrators School Managers and administrative staff Information professionals

Introduction to Open Access Journals Repositories Dealing with questions and general outreach * General information * Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings * News alerts/updates on OA developments Stage 1 Introduction Stage 2 Familiarisation Stage 3 Embedding Academics (as researchers and authors) Senior administrators School Managers and administrative staff Information professionals (IS development of services and processes using repository or open access materials)

Introduction to Open Access Journals Repositories Dealing with questions and general outreach * General information * Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings * News alerts/updates on OA developments Promotion of services Stage 1 Introduction Stage 2 Familiarisation Stage 3 Embedding Academics (as researchers and authors) Senior administrators School Managers and administrative staff Information professionals (IS development of services and processes using repository or open access materials)

Introduction to Open Access Journals Repositories Dealing with questions and general outreach * General information * Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings * News alerts/updates on OA developments Promotion of services Stage 1 Introduction Stage 2 Familiarisation Stage 3 Embedding Academics (as researchers and authors) Senior administrators School Managers and administrative staff Information professionals (IS development of services and processes using repository or open access materials)

Introduction to Open Access Journals Repositories Dealing with questions and general outreach * General information * Responding to requests, ie for speaker at academic group meetings * News alerts/updates on OA developments Promotion of services Stage 1 Introduction Stage 2 Familiarisation Stage 3 Embedding Stage 4 Integration Integration of services within normal IS service portfolio Background information integrated with general IS information provision Academics (as researchers and authors) Senior administrators School Managers and administrative staff Information professionals (IS development of services and processes using repository or open access materials)

Bill Hubbard