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Survey: Faculty Views on Open Access and Digital Repositories

shirley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:55:08 +0000

Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access, ISBN 1-57440-137-8.

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access (ISBN 1-57440-137-8) presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the growing digital repository/open access movement. The report helps to answer questions such as: Who cooperates with requests from librarians and who does not? Who gives their articles to repositories? Who among faculty sympathizes with the aims of open access? How many scholars have had a publication fee paid for them by their library or academic department?

The report presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. Data is presented in the aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

* 13% of the faculty in the sample had ever used a college’s institutional digital repository for scholarly research purposes.

* Use was greatest by faculty at specialized colleges, of whom 40% had used a digital repository at some time for research purposes

* About 28% said that they sympathize and try to help out by providing open access to their research materials as much as they possibly can.

* Although the tenured are less likely than the untenured to have heard of digital repositories, they are roughly twice as likely to have actually contributed an article to one of them.

* 74.62% of the faculty of the sample understood the meaning of the term ‘open access’. Individuals on the left wing of the political spectrum were more likely than those on the right wing to understand this term.

* Older faculty were more likely than younger faculty to be mystified by open access and digital repositories. Almost 43% of faculty between the ages of 50 and 59 did not know what digital repositories or open access really were.

For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com

Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study (OCRIS) Final report

shirley — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:59:37 +0000

nbsp;http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/430/1/OC…

The aims and objectives of this study were to: • Survey the extent to which repository content is in scope for institutional library OPACs, and the extent to which it is already recorded there; • Examine the interoperability of OPAC and repository software for the exchange of metadata and other information; • List the various services to institutional managers, researchers, teachers and learners offered respectively by OPACs and repositories; • Identify the potential for improvements in the links (e.g. using link resolver technology) from repositories and/or OPACs to other institutional services, such as finance or research administration; • Make recommendations for the development of possible further links between library OPACs and institutional repositories, identifying the benefits to relevant stakeholder groups

Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories workshop

shirley — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:48:50 +0000

nbsp;http://www.nactem.ac.uk/tm-uk oln.php

Presentations include:

Introduction and Overview (Dr. Lyon)
Scholarly communications and Text Mining : a view of the landscape (Prof. Ananiadou) Professor Sophia Ananiadou, Director, NaCTeM, Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN
Using text-mining for discovery and data integration: literature resources at the EBI and the UKPMC project Dr Johanna McEntyre, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge
Mining and meaning in the chemical sciences Richard Kidd, Royal Society of Chemistry
Approaches to automated metadata extraction : FixRep Project Emma Tonkin, UKOLN, University of Bath
Institutional Repository Search Vic Lyte, MIMAS
Text Mining to support systematic reviews in the social sciences James Thomas, Assistant Director, EPPI-Centre, Institute of Education, University of London
Keynote: eScience and Semantic Computing Professor Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft External Research
Open Up Rafael Sidi, Vice-President Product Management, Elsevier
A Service Perspective: Unlocking metadata to enhance discoverability and context Peter Burnhill, EDINA
Citations and Sentiment Simone Teufel, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Fedorazon – Final Report.

shirley — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:59:47 +0000

http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/426/

The Fedorazon project is first and foremost the experiences of a small HE/FE team running and maintaining a Repository in the Cloud for one year. Being early adopters we provide both technical, fiscal and practical advice for both our successes and failures in this endeavour. We hope this report provides insight for other institutions wishing to utilise the Cloud for their Repository instance which we wholeheartedly recommend given they read this report first and prepare accordingly. The Fedorazon project has discovered that a ‘Repository in the Cloud’ is easy to get up and running (both figuratively and literally); after that, all the complexity of hardware management, political costings and human resource allocation are still right where you left them. None the less we think there are significant cost savings in the Cloud that will only increase over time. We also believe that utilising the ‘network effect’ of the Cloud institutions can relieve the burden of having a local hardware expert to manage the repository instance. Finally, we believe that Cloud will lead to a significant change in the way we view repository architectures, especially in regards to how a ‘preservation architecture’ is achieved.

PEER – Final report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers

shirley — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:45:36 +0000

nbsp;http://www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/medi…

The Draft report on the provision of usage data1 and manuscript deposit procedures for
publishers and repository managers, deliverable 2.1, set out to establish a workflow for
depositing stage-2 outputs in and harvesting log files from repositories to enable the
research envisaged in the PEER project. As that report preceded the tendering process
whereby the respective research teams were selected, a number of issues were flagged for
attention, particularly of the Usage research team, in WP5 and have since been referred for
consultation.
A significant outcome of the previous draft report was the recommendation to establish the
PEER Depot as a closed intermediary repository, to receive publisher deposit in the form of
both 50% of the full-text outputs, as well as 100% of the metadata outputs; and to serve as
a base line control for the research process. The PEER Depot has since been established,
and has come to play a significant role in the workflow developed. While the draft report set
out a preliminary deposit workflow from publishers to repositories, the central role of the
PEER Depot has since influenced further developments in the provision of usage data and
manuscript deposit procedures for both publishers and authors.
This report is the result of an ongoing negotiation between stakeholder groups comprising
publishers and the library/repository community to establish best practice in deposit procedures
that are least disruptive of existing publication workflows, while minimizing additional
effort in repository ingest activities.

JISC joins the Confederation of Open Access Repositories

shirley — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:45:00 +0000

JISC has this week become a founding member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), joining those representing the UK.

Taking inspiration from the European DRIVER repositories project, which helps to enhance repository development, COAR takes this vision to an international scale; founding members of the Confederation include members from North America, China and Japan, as well as Europe.

The aim of COAR is to ‘enhance and progress the provision, visibility and application of research outputs through global networks of Open Access repositories,’ which also fits with JISC’s work to show the benefit to researchers of using repositories.

Neil Jacobs JISC’s programme manager for digital repositories says, “JISC’s work over the past few years in encouraging the growth of institutional repositories means that the UK now has a virtually unparalleled network of repositories that covers almost all of the research-base of UK higher education.

“Joining COAR at the early stage of its development means members will be able to contribute to shaping the organisation’s objectives which will look at interoperability, raising awareness and promoting Open Access repositories, supporting the repository community and working with partners in closely related fields such as research management and publishing.”

Open Access repositories offer researchers and universities the chance to significantly increase the impact of their research outputs, with the potential for significant benefits for UK higher education, the economy and society more widely.

Find out more about COAR http://www.driver-repository.eu/DRIVER-C…
and JISC’s work in Open Access http://www.jisc.ac.uk/openaccess

COAR establishes a global knowledge infrastructure

shirley — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:30:10 +0000

The international Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) was launched in Ghent on 21 October, during Open Access Week 2009. The aim of the organisation is the networking of over 1000 global scientific repositories comprising peer reviewed publications under the principle of Open Access. This will be achieved by means of common data standards and the co-ordination of scientific research policy development. Coinciding with the sixth anniversary of the Berlin Declaration to provide free and unrestricted access to sciences and human knowledge representation worldwide, COAR takes responsibility for the execution of this vision in bringing together scientific repositories in a wider organisational infrastructure to link confederations across continents and around the globe in support of new models of scholarly communication.

“The networking of online publications and research data sets will open new opportunities for research and the teaching of all disciplines in the 21st century”, said the founding Chairperson, Dr Norbert Lossau, Director of the State and University Library of Goettingen, emphasising the significance of COAR. “As proven managers of information, libraries are working hand in hand with information specialists, computer scientists and researchers to lend reality to a world-wide network of scientific repositories.”

COAR emerged from the European DRIVER project, (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research), funded by the EU Commission under the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes for e-Infrastructures. Among the 28 founding members of COAR, 23 organisations are based in 13 European countries; others in China (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Japan (National Institute of Informatics and the Digital Repository Federation), Canada (Canadian Association of Research Libraries) and the USA (University of Arizona for the Global Registries Initiative). As the membership continues to grow, interest in COAR is reflected in numerous related organisations, such as the SURF Foundation, JISC, SPARC Europe and eIFL.net, as well as OCLC and Microsoft Research, all of whom support of a common strategic objective to make research findings freely accessible to science and society.

source: SOAF

Major RoMEO Upgrade Released

shirley — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:09:54 +0000

www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

Release: 22 October 2009

A major upgrade to RoMEO has been released today, giving:

* Extra Category for the self-archiving of the Publisher’s Version/ PDF
* Expanded Journal Coverage
* Extra Search Options for Journal Abbreviations and Electronic ISSNs
* New Tabular Browse View for Publishers
* Selective Display of Publishers’ Compliance with Funding Agencys’ Mandates

What’s New?

As part of ongoing improvements to the RoMEO service, the Centre for Research Communications is excited to announce significant upgrades and additions to the SHERPA service RoMEO.

Previous versions of RoMEO have concentrated on highlighting information on the use of the pre-print and post-print. There has been great support from the community for also providing clearly labelled information on the use of the publisher’s version/PDF as a separate item. This feature has now been included and sits alongside information on self-archiving rights for Pre-prints and Authors’ Post-prints. The information is available in both individual publisher entries and in the new Tabular Browse View.

RoMEO now provides expanded journal coverage, enabling users to draw from both the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Entrez journal list for the Life Sciences, along with the existing resource of the British Library’s Zetoc service.

In addition to searching for journals by Print ISSN, users are now able to search by Electronic ISSN. They can also search for journals using title abbreviations.

The new Tabular Browse View enables users to display comparative charts of publishers, to quickly determine and compare what different Publishers allow them to deposit, and if the Publisher has a Paid OA Option.

If you or your authors receive funding from any of the 50 plus agencies listed in JULIET, you will now be able to restrict your search results to display Publishers’ compliance with any of the funding agencies’ policies listed in JULIET.

The Depot Open Access repository becomes international

shirley — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:27:34 +0000

To coincide with the start of Open Access week, EDINA (a JISC UK-national academic data centre based at the University of Edinburgh) is pleased to announce that the Depot has been opened up internationally. Building upon its initial role given to it by JISC, the Depot is now being opening up into a facility to support the Open Access agenda internationally.

The Depot (www.depot.edina.ac.uk)is an assured gateway to make research Open Access – we provide two main services:

1. a deposit service for researchers worldwide without an institutional repository in which to deposit their papers, articles, and book chapters (e-prints).

2. a re-direct service which alerts depositors to more appropriate local services if they exist.

The first time a researcher visits the Depot we will automatically check with OpenDOAR, the registry for open access repositories, to find a more appropriate local repository. If none exists then the author will be invited to deposit their research in the Depot. The Depot is OAI-compliant allowing deposited e-prints to be ‘harvested’ by search services, and other repositories, giving them instant global visibility.

For the present you can find the Depot at http://www.depot.edina.ac.uk/ but working with eIFL-OA we hope to provide a more international URL to denote its new role.

Warm regards, Theo (on behalf of the Depot team)

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Theo Andrew
Edinburgh University Library
& EDINA National Data Centre

Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1

shirley — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:36:50 +0000

nbsp;http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.h…

To celebrate Open Access Week, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/)is releasing version one of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. This bibliography presents over 620 selected English-language articles, books, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. Although institutional repositories intersect with a number of open access and scholarly communication topics, this bibliography only includes works that are primarily about institutional repositories.

http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.h…

Most sources have been published between 2000 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories.

For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation http://bit.ly/GW4Ih) from the University of Houston Libraries, see the Digital Scholarship Publications Overview.

http://bit.ly/1tsW5s

Table of Contents

1 General
2 Country and Regional Institutional Repository Surveys
3 Multiple-Institution Repositories
4 Specific Institutional Repositories
5 Institutional Repository Digital Preservation Issues
6 Institutional Repository Library Issues
7 Institutional Repository Metadata Issues
8 Institutional Repository Open Access Policies
9 Institutional Repository R&D Projects
10 Institutional Repository Research Studies
11 Institutional Repository Software
Appendix A. About the Author

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Best Regards,
Charles

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Publisher, Digital Scholarship
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