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Cardiff ePrints Caerdydd: from Vision to Reality http://eprints.cf.ac.uk/ Anne Bell http://eprints.cf.ac.uk/
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Creating Cardiff ePrints Outcomes - the “finished” pilot Where we are now - advocacy Overview
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Cardiff ePrints Timeline: 1 2001 – interest in OA & repositories 2002/3 – awareness events 2003/4 – institutional merger 2004 September – project group 2004 December – project start 2004/5 – Strategic Library Review
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Cardiff ePrints Timeline: 2 2005 April – first implementation 2005 October – final configuration 2006 February – OAI registration & OpenDOAR 2006 March – low profile publicity, content 18 papers
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Cardiff ePrints Timeline: 3 2005/6 – Modern Working Environment 2005/6 – RAE planning Summer 2006 – more full text content Autumn 2006 – end of Pilot development – 66 items 2007 January – advocacy plan
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Cardiff ePrints Pilot: Features 1 EPrints software Initial focus Engineering & Optometry Mediated deposit Self-archiving Aims demonstrate the concept full text published papers
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Cardiff ePrints Pilot: Features 2 Library driven Specialised support from other parts of INSRV. INSRV Project group – high level guidance ePrints Project team – cataloguers & subject librarians No dedicated staff resources
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Cardiff ePrints Pilot: Outcome 1 Total of 300+ papers were checked Approx 60 papers added during pilot phase Optometry 211 papers, 73 “green”, 34 added Engineering 75 papers, 57 “green” 23 added Nursing 30 papers, 14 “green”, 1 added
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Publishers and Copyright Quality and perception Publisher pdf or author final version Without the journal pdf, self-archiving perceived to be self-publishing, and the content not peer- reviewed
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Resource issues Copyright and quality concerns Culture change Institutional backing Re-think on objectives and approach to advocacy Cardiff ePrints Pilot: Outcome 2
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Cardiff ePrints: Advocacy 1 Advocacy plan – a project in its own right Institutional mandate? “…voluntary persuasion of individuals is known not to work beyond a pitiful participation level. Self-archiving needs to be made part of the routine academic duty, and this requires a policy endorsement by someone.” (Arthur Sale) RAE?
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Cardiff ePrints: Advocacy 2 Open meeting of stakeholders Raise awareness OA benefits, simple messages Identify Schools’ priorities Briefing material to ensure consistency RAE publication data MWE integration
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Cardiff ePrints: Advocacy 3 Information Services Annual Report “Open Access repository positions the University for the future” 2 key messages – OA impact advantage + funding mandates Presentations to University audiences via existing events School Strategy planning Promotional postcard
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Why have a Repository? 40+ UK institutions have repositories Benefits for researchers wider dissemination and citation easier searching and access Benefits for institutions promoting research reputation managing publications and data Compliance with funding authority policies Metrics-based RAE (post 2008)
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Benefits: Research Impact “…online articles are more highly cited because of easier availability." Nature (2001) vol 411, no. 6837, p.521 "Overall, [self-archiving] of articles in open access repositories seems to be associated with both a larger number of citations, and earlier citations for the items deposited...” UK scholarly journals: 2006 baseline report: An evidence-based analysis of data concerning scholarly journal publishing. http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-scholarly-journals http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-scholarly-journals
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Cardiff ePrints: Advocacy 4 Internal context Pragmatic Preparing for the future RAE MWE GFI
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