LIR Seminar, 27 th March 2009 IReL-Open for business soon Rachel Hill DORAS Institutional Repository Manager, Dublin City University

Outline IReL-Open overview Key milestones in the project The IReL-Open portal Metadata and the portal The harvest is ripening IReL-Open - beyond the project

IReL-Open overview 3 year project Managed by IUA Librarians Group €1.6m funded through HEA Strategic Innovation Fund and matched by the institutions Project workspace:

IReL-Open objectives Establish IRs in all 7 IUA universities Create a national portal –Contain content harvested from the individual IRs –Facilitate a range of value-added services –Potential of scaling up to include harvested content from other partners beyond the IUA universities

What stage are we at now

Approx 6000 open access papers in Irish IRs Containing a mix of journal articles, theses, conference proceedings, book chapters, technical reports, etc. Using a mixture of DSpace, EPrints and Digital Commons platforms

IReL-Open activities Metadata group working on guidelines for metadata harvesting May-Sept 2008 – consultant developed specifications for the portal Dec 2008 – advertised tender for portal development Mar 2009 – contract awarded for portal development Apr Tech group will liaise with portal developer Dec 2009 – new portal will go live

Key features of the portal The portal will act as a single point of access to full- text national research output From one location users will be able to access the harvested open access content from Irish IRs Will use OAI-PMH protocol to harvest metadata from Irish IRs

How the portal will work Irish IR National Portal Irish IR Metadata Harvester

Example portal - DRIVER DRIVER portal (beta) Open Access to European research Contains approx 1,000,000 records harvested from around 200 institutional/subject repositories

Search for “optical communications”

Example portal – DART-Europe Free online access to over 100,000 research theses Theses are harvested from 12 European countries, using the OAI-PMH protocol

Key features of the IReL-Open portal Faceted browsing by –Author –Institution –Year of publication –Item type –Keyword Refine and filter results Sort results Export search and faceted queries as RSS feeds

Metadata in the portal Simple Dublin Core – basic standard for OAI-PMH

Simple Dublin Core record

Metadata in the portal Simple Dublin Core – basic standard for OAI-PMH Metadata group has worked on creating guidelines for how Simple Dublin Core is interpreted – –general guidelines –thesis-specific guidelines E.g. All records must contain a title [dc:title] All records must contain a link back to the source repository [dc:identifier] For theses, dc:creator field is used for the author and dc:contributor field is used for the thesis supervisor

Key back-end features Each IR manager will be able to log in, schedule harvests, specify repository-specific normalisation, generate statistical reports Scalable – can scale up to include more IRs. Potential for each institution to set up harvests from multiple repositories. OAI-PMH proxy will re-expose metadata

The harvest is ripening 62% of journal publishers listed on Sherpa Romeo allow some form of self-archiving Greater awareness of open access amongst Irish academics Move towards open access of public-funded research –IRCSET –SFI –HEA –HRB Stats show that people are using Irish IRs

6 months stats – DORAS Total of full-text downloads Each open access journal article was downloaded an average of 26 times Each open access book chapter was downloaded an average of 50 times Each open access thesis was downloaded an average of 84 times 1 September 2008 – 28 February 2009

6 months stats – DORAS 1 September 2008 – 28 February 2009

IReL-Open – beyond the project Integration with research profiles and research support systems Preservation Digitisation of theses

Thank you! Rachel Hill, DORAS Manager tel: