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1 DAEDALUS - An ePrints Case Study William J Nixon Service Development Susan Ashworth Advocacy

2 The Catalyst of Crisis Crisis in Scholarly Communication Alternative Publishing Models and the push for self-archiving Pressure on Library budgets, especially in STM areas Other projects had looked at other solutions - e.g. GAELS and collaboration

3 Context

4 Create Change at Glasgow Create Change event in April 2002 40 Academics attended Issues gained momentum at GU Range of solutions discussed –Self-archiving –New Journals

5 Create Change screenshot

6 DAEDALUS Part of the FAIR Programme Partner with the CURL SHERPA Project Evolved from the implementation of our eprints service Two strands –Advocacy –Service Development

7 Issues we will explore Cultural –Encouraging use Organisational –IPR and copyright –Plagiarism Technical –Standards and formats

8 Advocacy Advocacy Remit Our Strategies Issues identified by academics The Major issues are NOT technical

9 Remit to create an Open Access culture to gather content for the range of Open Archives services to provide advice on policy implications, guidelines and processes of the services to formulate an exit strategy that ensures a full and fully used service

10 Strategies at Glasgow Project Board including an academic from each of three territorial subject groups Contacting those academics who are already self-publishing Taking over departmental publications databases (RAE)

11 Strategies cont…. Raising debate within departments - programme of attending departmental meetings Regional meetings, possible subject based, in collaboration with other FAIR projects Attempting to get strategic decisions at a high level within the University e.g. on submission of theses

12 Assistance for Staff Focus for publisher copyright policies Range of repositories Mediated submission service –Record enhancement –File conversion

13 Project RoMEO FAIR Project Investigating the Rights Issues of Self- Archiving - central issue for researchers Range of Questionnaires –Author –Data Provider –Service Provider

14 RoMEO Screenshot

15 Concerns None Plagiarism Commercial gain Integrity of the work will be compromised That no journal will subsequently publish it That it will break existing copyright agreements with publishers -From Project RoMEO Author Questionnaire

16 Who benefits? Operational matters Document formats and Copyright Collection policy Quality control Other Concerns

17 Service Development Published papers / ePrints Pre-prints, grey literature, technical reports, working papers Doctoral theses Research Finding Aids Administrative Documents Search service

18 Complementary Resource The University of Glasgow ePrints repository will exist, not in competition with the subject based archives, which are already established but rather as a complementary Institutional resource.

19 Eprints.org Developed at the Electronics and Computer Science Department of the University of Southampton. ePrints version 2.0 now launched We are currently running 1.1.1 eprints.org was previously supported by CogPrints, funded by JISC as part of its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme.

20 ePrints at Glasgow

21 ePrints Record

22 DSpace Development driven by Academics at MIT Freely available from November 2002 Digital Preservation component Devolved model Cambridge Installation begins January 2003

23 DSpace at MIT

24 E-Theses Virginia Tech software Complementary and voluntary Strong Faculty support Partners with: Theses Alive! and E-Theses Project

25 OAI Theses Catalog

26 Field of Dreams Principle If we build it, will you come? - Kevin Costner (after W.P. Kinsella) http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus


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