1. Repository Developments University of Leeds, 29th November 2007 Peter Cliff With thanks to Jackie & Gareth @ RSP for ideas and slides

2. 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

3. Repository Developments Overview: Where are we coming from? Where are we now? Where are we going?

4. 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

5. 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 2001-2005 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 2007-2009

6. Where are we now? http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres.aspx JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme

7. The Numbers OpenDOAR reports over 1000 Repositories! http://www.opendoar.org/onechart.php?cID=&ctID=&rtID=&clID=&lID=&potID=&rSoftWareName=&search =&groupby=r.rDateAdded&orderby=&charttype=growth&width=600&height=350&caption=Growth%20of% 20the%20OpenDOAR%20Database%20-%20Worldwide

8. The Numbers II ROAR reports over 7,000,000 records!

9. The Numbers III OpenDOAR suggests UK doing well!

10. 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: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

11. RSP News News and events http://www.rsp.ac.uk/news/rss.xml Events programme http://www.rsp.ac.uk/events/index.php#future Institutional Support & Mentoring support@rsp.ac.uk

12. Open Access News Lots going on – check: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html http://www.eprints.org/news/ SPARC/SPARCeurope http://www.arl.org/sparc/ http://www.sparkyawards.org/ http://www.sparceurope.org/

13. If You Don’t Know Already… UKCoRR http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/UKCORR_Launch.html DRIVER http://www.driver-repository.eu/ http://www.driver-support.eu/en/index.html APSR http://www.apsr.edu.au/

14. Search Service News – Not Much Search services OAIster http://www.oaister.org/dataproviders.html & http://www.lib.umich.edu/labs/search/http://www.oaister.org/dataproviders.html http://www.lib.umich.edu/labs/search/ Intute Repository Search http://irs.ukoln.ac.uk/ BASE http://www.base-search.net/ ARROW http://stats.nla.gov.au/arrow/ GoogleScholar http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/googlecrawling.htm

15. Conferences and Events – Recent UKCoRR http://www.ukcorr.org/events/nov2007-event.php 23 rd November 2007, Nottingham, UK Sun PASIG Meeting http://sun-pasig.org & http://sun-pasig.org/posts.phphttp://sun-pasig.orghttp://sun-pasig.org/posts.php 14 th -16 th November 2007, Paris, France

16. Conferences and Events – Coming Up Getting the Most Out of Your Institutional Repository http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/ir07/ 3 rd December 2007, Beltsville, Maryland, USA Open Repositories 2008 http://openrepositories.org/ & http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/http://openrepositories.org/http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Call for papers deadline: 7 th or 9 th December! 1 st -4 th April 2008, Southampton, UK

17. Funding Opportunities JISC Circular 05/07: Digital Repositories http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2007/11/circular0507.aspx Deadline: 14 th January 2008, 12pm JISC ITT: Study into Evolution of Working Practices http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2007/11/evolutionofwp.aspx Deadline: 13 th December 2007, 12pm Other JISC calls at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/ Eprints Call for Plugins http://www.eprints.org/software/cfp.php Deadline: 31 st January 2008

18. Where are we going? Still building the network Still persuing Open Access Data/Information Management Web services & Transparency

19. Where are we going? THIS IS OK! Still building the network Still pursuing Open Access Data/Information Management Web services & Transparency

20. Questions? Get in touch: p.d.cliff@ukoln.ac.uk support@rsp.ac.uk

21. Repository Developments Peter Cliff, UKOLN p.d.cliff@ukoln.ac.uk support@rsp.ac.uk