UCL LIBRARY SERVICES The DART-Europe project Towards developing a European theses portal Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Content  DART-Europe  DART-Europe: Next Steps

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES DART-Europe  Founding academic partners  UCL Library Services  Oxford University Library Services  Trinity College Dublin  Dartington College of Arts  ProQuest Information and Learning formed an initial technology collaboration with DART-Europe

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Objectives  To work together for the discovery, retrieval and use of research theses from European universities  Working in an Open Access environment  Work underpinned by the Berlin Declaration on Open Access  European in scope  Aligned with national E-Theses developments in each member country  To provide a ‘vanilla’ service, fully Open Access  which is free at point of use  To develop a business model for Value-Added services

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Achievements  European portal for access to E-Theses (DEEP)  See  Portal maintained and developed by UCL Library Services  Currently harvesting records for doctoral theses daily from:  UCL Library Services  CBUC - Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya  DiVA – doctoral theses from Nordic countries

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Architecture IRsIR IRs European Platform Local/National Platforms & Access DART-Europe portal Germany Nordic countries DartingtonUCL Ireland Institution/ Country/ Consortium Spain/ Catalonia OAI Oxford IRs OAI etc.

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Successes and …  DART-Europe, as a community-led and –owned development, has  Created a ‘vanilla’ service, conforming to Open Access principles  E-Theses can be deposited in Open Access repositories  Metadata harvested  European portal created for a European view  Content and software processes free at point of use  DART-Europe did not achieve ‘value-added’ services  Other, optional elements, which can be charged for, e.g.  Deposit tool  Additional functionalities  Preservation platform  Open Access Business model

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Next steps (1)  Phase 2 (2007-)  Enlarge partnership and collaborations  Special emphasis on EU Accession countries  DART-Europe website at adding multi-lingual text pages in:  English  Catalan  German  Hungarian  Gaelic

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Next Steps (2)  DART-Europe will seek endorsement from LIBER in July 2007  under the aegis of the LIBER Access Division  Investigate issues around the long-term sustainability of the partnerships and the portal  Consider a European bid to fund multi-lingual developments in the portal

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contacts  Paul Ayris, UCL Library Services, Co-Chair   Chris Pressler, Dartington College of Arts, Co-Chair   DART-Europe website   DART-Europe portal (DEEP)   Project Team 

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES And finally  Thanks for listening  Happy to hear any questions