1. Open Access: a global perspective Morag Greig & William J. Nixon

2. Initiatives and developments UK initiatives Initiatives worldwide

3. UK Developments : Timeline 2002 – JISC FAIR Programme 2004 – Scottish Open Access Declaration 2006 – JISC Repository Net 2007 – Repository Support Project UKCORR

4. FAIR Programme (2002-2005) Focus on access to institutional resources 3 Year Programme Wide range of projects set-up –E-Theses projects at Edinburgh and RGU –SHERPA – Partners with Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Oxford universities –ROMEO Project at Loughborough

5. Growth of Repositories in the UK 112 Registered Repositories The UK currently has 11% of the global repositories, Germany has 12% and the USA 28% [Source: OpenDOAR]

6. Growth in UK Repositories and Records

7. Key Role for JISC in UK: Repository Net (2006-) JISC has committed £15 million towards Digital Repositories and Preservation activity Established JISC RepositoryNet –Research Support Project –Intute Search Service –The Depot

8. Repositories Support Project Funded by JISC Launched 2007 Mission: “to co-ordinate and deliver good practice and practical advice to English and Welsh HEIs to enable the implementation, management and development of digital institutional repositories.”

9. Screenshot: RSP

10. Intute - Repository Search Service Goals: –Make it easier for Universities to find Open Access Content –Raise the visibility of content –Encourage the deposit of content Funded from 2006-9 Wide range of content –86 UK Repositories –168,000 Papers

11. Screenshot: Intute

12. the Depot National Repository Service for Institutions without a Repository Provides a national gateway to repositories Accepts published and peer-reviewed materials Will provide assistance to transfer material “Put it in the Depot”

13. Screenshot: the Depot

14. International declarations Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002 http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml Bethesda Statement, 2003 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm Berlin Declaration, 2003 http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess- berlin/berlindeclaration.html National Institutes of Health, 2004 UK Research Councils, 2006 http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/outputs/access/default.htm http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/outputs/access/default.htm See http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm for many more!http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm

15. International conferences on open access OAI workshops (Geneva) - 5 held already Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication (Lund) Open Scholarship (Glasgow) Open Repositories Many individual events in countries worldwide – Tanzania, Rio de Janeiro, Jeddah, Bern, Athens, Aleppo – to name a few for November/December 2007! List of events: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm

16. Selected initiatives DRIVER (European) DARENet (Netherlands) Arrow (Australia)

20. Software user groups and communities DSpace Federation (http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=co m_content&task=blogcategory&id=30&Itemi d=55)http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=co m_content&task=blogcategory&id=30&Itemi d=55 Fedora Users Group ePrints Community (http://www.eprints.org/community/)

22. Repositories listed by continent

23. Conclusions Open access is an important worldwide movement Researchers and librarians worldwide are working towards the same goal Together we can revolutionise access to the scholarly literature