daedalus - freeing research at the university of glasgow william j nixon service development susan...

DAEDALUS -Freeing Research at theUniversity of Glasgow

William J NixonService Development

Susan AshworthAdvocacy

DAEDALUS

• 1st August 2002 – 31st July 2005

• Evolved from the implementation of our local eprints service

• Two strands– Advocacy– Service Development

• Partner with the CURL SHERPA Project

Range of Collections

• Published papers / ePrints

• Pre-prints, grey literature, technical reports, working papers

• Doctoral theses

• Research Finding Aids

• Administrative Documents

• Search service

Advocacy

• Advocacy Remit

• Our Strategies

• Issues identified by academics

The Major issues are NOT technical

Advocacy 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

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)

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

Service Development

• Eprints Demonstrator– GNU Eprints v.2.0– Full text papers and bib information– OpenURL links from the Catalogue

• Initial install of E-theses software

• Work ongoing with DSpace install

Eprints screenshot

Eprints record screenshot

Eprints and catalogue

ETD-db

DAEDALUS – Freeing Research at the University of Glasgow

http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus

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