spir@l open access in action: imperial college’s digital repository deborah shorley director of...
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Spir@l
Open access in action:Imperial College’s Digital
Repository
Deborah ShorleyDirector of Library Services, Imperial
College London
LIRGroup Annual SeminarDublin
27th March 2009
Introduction
• Digital repositories in an open access environment
• Imperial College London case study
Why institutional repositories matter
• Escalating cost of journals
• Increasing collaborative research
• Pressure from funders to make research freely accessible
• Marketing tool for institutions
Spir@l in a nutshell
• What is Spir@l?
• How does it work?
• The story so far
• Future plans……….
What is Spir@l?
• Imperial College’s Institutional Repository
• Holds full texts of peer-reviewed versions of journal articles and conference papers by staff and students of Imperial College London
How was Spir@l built
• A collaborative project between the Library and ICT at Imperial
• Uses DSpace software
How does it work?
• An integral part of the College’s information architecture
• Fully integrated with the College’s publications system
(Symplectic), Personal web pages (PWPs) and the HR database
What is Symplectic?
• Publications trawled from online databases (Web of Knowledge and Pubmed)
• Allows academics to add details of non-journal publications manually
• Popular tool, well regarded by academics
Professional Web Pages
• Professional profile for individual researchers
• Publications page fed by Symplectic
• Highly popular and well-used
How does Spir@l work
• Integral part of the College’s information architecture
• Fully integrated with the College’s publications system,
Symplectic , PWPs and HR database
• Files and licences uploaded via Symplectic interface
File upload to Spir@l
Spir@l to professional web pages
“Imperial College London’s effort to embed the repository in existing campus practice and technology is exemplary”
Dorothea Salo
University of Wisconsin
Digital Collections Center)
Problems
• Getting academics to upload files
• Copyright restrictions Most publishers allow final author version Most authors prefer publisher PDF
Progress so far
Next Steps
• Streamline processes - eg automatic metadata generation
• Single point of deposit for multiple submissions (eg submission to UKPMC and Spir@l)
• Automated addition of PhD theses
• Inclusion of primary datasets
• College mandate for deposit
Key references
• Spir@l http://spiral.imperial.ac.uk
• DSpace Foundation http://www.dspace.org
• Sherpa http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Intellectual Property Rights and digital repositories survey – results http://www.uea.ac.uk/is/digitalrepository/heiprsurvey
Key contacts
• Owen Stephens Assistant Director: eStrategy & Information Resources [email protected]
• Fereshteh Afshari Head of Professional Services Bureau [email protected]
Deborah Shorley
Director of Library Services
With thanks to Fereshteh Afshari for her help with this presentation