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1 Case Study: Open Access at the University of Glasgow William J Nixon and Morag Greig Glasgow University Library, Scotland

2 Overview University of Glasgow OA at Glasgow DAEDALUS Project Enlighten

3 Glasgow and Scotland Capital: Edinburgh Population 5.1m 14 Universities Devolved Parliament City of Glasgow –Population 578,000

4 University of Glasgow Founded in 1451 2 nd oldest University in Scotland (4 th UK) 5,200 Staff –2,400 Academic 20,000 Students –16,000 undergrads –4,000 postgrads One of the world's top 100 universities

5 Glasgow University Library Earliest reference to the Library is 1475 2M+ items on 12 Floors 200 Staff –30+ Academic Staff 1.4M Visits in 2006

6 JISC – Joint Information Systems Committee JISC' activities support education and research by promoting innovation in new technologies and by the central support of ICT services, including: –JANET – National Network Funded by UK Higher Education Council’s Key funder for UK Repositories Launched RepositoryNet in 2006 Wide range of initiatives at all levels: –Institutional initiatives including DAEDALUS at Glasgow –National initiatives including National Repository Service – Depot Search Service – Intute

7 Wide Ranging Treasures

8 Open Access in Scotland Scottish Declaration on Open Access launched October 2004 – all Scottish Universities are signatories Actions on institutions include: –Set up institutional repositories, and/or liaise with other organisations to establish a joint repository. –Encourage, and where practical mandate, researchers to deposit copies of their outputs (articles, reports, conference papers, etc) in an institutional or co-operative repository.

9 Drivers for Open Access at the University of Glasgow Funding body policies on Open Access –Wellcome Trust –RCUK Public presentation of the University’s research profile Increased impact for research made openly available

10 Repositories at Glasgow 2001 – Pilot Repository Service –ePrints with mix of content 2002 – DAEDALUS Project –Two repositories developed 2006 – Enligthen Repository Service –Three repositories, Searching by Google

11 ePrints@Glasgow (2001)

12 DAEDALUS (2002-2005) Part of the JISC FAIR Programme £286,000 Funding Evolved from pilot eprints service in 2001 Set out to build a collection of institutional repositories Two strands –Advocacy –Service Development Daedalus watching Icarus fall in Ovid: Metamorphoses, illustrated by Virgil Solis (Frankfurt: 1569)

13 Key Aims To create OAI-PMH compliant repositories –Using a range of different open source OAI-PMH compliant pieces of software including ePrints and DSpace To act as a catalyst for cultural change –Ensuring ongoing discussion about Open Access and Scholarly Communication” within the University of Glasgow and the wider community To disseminate our experiences and findings –to the wider community through reports, workshops, exemplars and guides to best practice in the development of these services

14 DAEDALUS: Advocacy Wide range of presentations Work with individual staff Advocacy by Senior Library Management at University Committees Demonstrated that Advocacy was critical to repository development Report on “Institutional Advocacy: Guidelines and Practical Advice”

15 DAEDALUS: Service Development Funded to Investigate and Research software Eprints and DSpace software selected Software matched to different content types Opportunity to work with them both Hardware and skill sets available Experience with EPrints.org software Workflow opportunities presented by DSpace suited a more devolved model Digital preservation dimension

16 DAEDALUS: Staff Advocacy Manager Service Development Manager 2 x Technical Support Staff Administrative Assistant

17 DAEDALUS: ePrints Launch (July 2006) Morag Greig, Stephen Gallacher, Joan Keenan, Chris Rusbridge, Lesley Drysdale Chris Bailey

18 DAEDALUS: The Mediated Model Little or no self-deposit of papers Records added: –Manually by Library Staff –Imported from publicaton databases Resource and Scalability Issues deposit@lib.gla.ac.uk set-up Additional enhancement by staff –Reference checks –Subject heading assigned –Full text attached –Copyright statement included

19 DAEDALUS: Achievements Two Repositories [different software] –ePrints –DSpace Digital Preservation subject repository Open Access e-journal, JeLit Pilot Search Service Wide range of reports and presentations –Software evaluation –ePrints Workflow –Advocacy

20 Glasgow ePrints Service

21 Glasgow DSpace Service

22 Screenshot: JeLit

23 Screenshot: ERPAePRINTS

24 From DAEDALUS to Enlighten (2006-) Enlighten was launched in April 2006 Senior Management Support University Statement on Open Access Core Strategic Aim for the Library Appointment of New Staff Three Separate Repositories –Published papers –Other Research Outputs –Theses Cross-searching provided by Google

25 Enlighten Home Page

26 Glasgow Theses Service

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29 Statistics for Enlighten Since February 2004 760,000+ PDF downloads 3200+ records 1450+ full text papers Our most downloaded book - 28,000

30 Screenshot: Pictland Paper 8900 downloads: Forsyth, K. Language in Pictland : the case against 'non-Indo-European Pictish'., De Keltiche Draak (1997)

31 Example: Google

32 Example: Wikipedia

33 Growth of Deposits to ePrints Service

34 Growth of Access to ePrints Service

35 To Mandate or not to Mandate Mandates in place at Southampton and the University of Queensland. No mandate at Glasgow Our statement “Strongly encourages”

36 University Statement “Glasgow University, as a signatory of the Scottish Open Access Declaration, strongly encourages authors at Glasgow University to deposit copies of their published work into the University's Institutional Repository……….The Repository is a freely available database which anyone in the world can access and is intended to be a showcase of the research undertaken at the University.” http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/enlighten/statement.html

37 Impact of the statement Increased awareness of the existence of a repository here at Glasgow Significant increase in number of staff depositing content Significant increase in the range of content across the University The repository is seen an institutional initiative NOT a library initiative

38 Two Routes to Deposit Mediated deposit via e-mail Self-deposit

39 Research Office Support Publicity and announcements Interest in showcasing our publications “New Publications” website being created Explore integrating Enlighten with other Research services –Research Map –Innovative Licences project

40 The Future University will continue to encourage staff to deposit their publications The University has now mandated the electronic deposit of theses Ongoing advocacy campaign Management of University Publications Database


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