repositories, learned societies and research funders stephen pinfield university of nottingham
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Repositories, Learned Societies and Research Funders
Stephen Pinfield
University of Nottingham
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Repositories: What they are What they do What they don’t do What they should do What they might do
What repositories are
Screen shot arxiv
Screen shot DSpace@MIT
Repositories
Subject / institutional
Open access / restricted access
E-prints / other digital content
‘Open archives’
Open access– free, unrestricted, immediate availability of
full content (and unrestricted re-use)
Interoperable– Open Archives Initiative Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting (OAI PMH)
OAI Protocol: key concepts
End User
Data Providers
Service Provider
Harvester
Publication & self-archiving
Author writes paper
Author submits paper to journal
Editor and referees review paper
Author revises paper
Author submits final version
Publisher copy edits and formats paper
Author self-archives paper in e-print repository
Paper published in journal
post-print
pre-print
What repositories do
What repositories do Provide (open) access to content
– to research community
– to other stakeholders: health professionals, industry, media etc.
Accelerate dissemination Store and manage content Preserve content Complement journals
– provide copies of papers
– provide services
Act as shop window for institution/organisation Expose content/metadata for harvesting
OAI Service Providers
What repositories plus Service Providers do
Search – retrieve Value-added services
What repositories don’t do right now
Repositories DON’T…
Provide peer reviewProvide journal ‘brand’Provide the article of recordReplace journalsCost a lot!
What repositories should do
RCUK
The June 2006 updated statement: Reaffirms the principle that publicly-
funded research should be publicly available
Devolves responsibility to individual research councils
Initiates further consultation and research
Research Councils
OA mandate: BBSRC, ESRC, MRC OA encouraged: CCLRC Policy to be released soon: AHRC, NERC No OA policy: EPSRC, PPARC
Wellcome
Open access mandate Deposit in (UK)PMC Fund OA charges Publisher agreements ‘Open’ licence agreements Deposit of article of record
What repositories might do
What repositories might do (1)
More value-added services– search– citation analysis/metrics– plagiarism detection– text/data mining
Create publishing efficiencies
What repositories might do (2)
Deconstructing the journal– content distribution– quality control
‘Overlay journals’ Quality
– pre-publication screening– pre-publication peer review– post-publication metrics– post-publication dialogue
Role of Learned Societies?
Journal publishers – new business models
Data providers Service providers Quality control/measurement services Overlay journal providers
