1. Athabasca University’s Institutional Repository
AUSPACE
Athabasca University’s
Institutional Repository

2. Open Access Week

3. Institutional repository
“An institutional repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.”
Van de Sompel, H & Lagoze, C. (2000)

4. Institutional repository
Four main functions
Preservation
Organization
Access
Distribution

5. AUSpace
An institutional repository based on DSpace, an open source repository originally developed by MIT and Hewlett Packard
Maintained by DuraSpace, a non-profit foundation

6. DSpace users Over 1000 organizations use it
Almost 50 organizations in Canada
University of Calgary
University of Waterloo
York University
UBC

7. DSpace

8. Information Structure
Community
Sub-Community
Collection
Item
Bundle
Bitstream

9. Standards Qualified Dublin Core  based on Library Application Profile
Crosswalk from MARC  based on Library of Congress crosswalk
Minimally effective preservation metadata
METS-encoded OAIS AIP in bitstore 
Support for collection/community-specific schemas in development (SIMILE)
OAI-PMH v 2.0 (Open Archive’s Initiative Protocol for metadata harvesting)
UNICODE Compliant 

10. Possible content Preprints, articles Technical Reports Working Papers
Conference Papers
Manuscript
Datasets: statistical, geospatial
Images  visual, scientific, etc.
Audio files
Video files
Learning Objects  

11. Open Access definition
“Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open Access ensures that anyone can access and use these results—to turn ideas into industries and breakthroughs into better lives”
-SPARC

12. Importance of Open Access
Students
Researchers
Doctors
Patients
Developing countries
Entrepreneurs and small businesses
The public
Publishers

13. Open Access to Research Outputs Policy
“To promote the diffusion of research by making research outputs accessible to the widest possible audience and at the earliest possible opportunity.”

14. Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications
“Grant recipients can deposit their final, peer-reviewed manuscript into an institutional or disciplinary repository that will make the manuscript freely accessible within 12 months of publication. It is the responsibility of the grant recipient to determine which publishers allow authors to retain copyright and/or allow authors to archive journal publications in accordance with funding agency policies.”

15. Support research
Cost
Access
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17. Upgrade Long overdue Updated look
Reflects university faculty structure
Responsive design
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31. A beginning Easier submissions Embedding publication lists
Suggestions?

32. Contact
Colin Elliott