Open Access: a global perspective

Morag Greig & William J. Nixon

Initiatives and developments

• UK initiatives• Initiatives worldwide

UK Developments : Timeline

• 2002 – JISC FAIR Programme• 2004 – Scottish Open Access Declaration• 2006 – JISC Repository Net• 2007 – Repository Support Project

UKCORR

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

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]

Growth in UK Repositories and Records

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

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.”

Screenshot: RSP

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

Screenshot: Intute

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”

Screenshot: the Depot

International declarations

• Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

• Bethesda Statement, 2003http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm

• Berlin Declaration, 2003http://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

• See http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm for many more!

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

Selected initiatives

• DRIVER (European)• DARENet (Netherlands)• Arrow (Australia)

Software user groups and communities

• DSpace Federation (http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=30&Itemid=55)

• Fedora Users Group • ePrints Community

(http://www.eprints.org/community/)

Repositories listed by continent

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