the library as a virtual research environment
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The library as a virtual research environment. Bill Hubbard SHERPA Project Manager University of Nottingham. A virtual research environment. what is in this environment ? what do academics want ? what role does the library play ?. Users wanted. access to financial information - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The library as a virtual research environment
Bill HubbardSHERPA Project ManagerUniversity of Nottingham
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A virtual research environment
what is in this environment ? what do academics want ? what role does the library play ?
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Users wanted . . .
access to financial information access to funding and research opportunities support in working practices access to library services on-line
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Portal first page
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Portal finance
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Research news
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Virtual community and support
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Weblog support
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Virtual working environment
research project management research development support for collaborative working
access to library services and research papers
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Resources -
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Resources - inc Metalib
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Institutional repositories
improve scholarly communication facilitate the research process easy and cheap to establish fit in with current working practices can be built incrementally
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Establishing a repository
technically straight forward free software - EPrints.org, DSpace and others standard server needs integration into institutional systems & services collections policy
– different disciplines– different research cultures
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Benefits for the researcher
wide dissemination – papers more visible– cited more
rapid dissemination ease of access cross-searchable value added services
– hit counts on papers– personalised publications lists– citation analyses
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Why institutional ?
institutions have centralised resources:– to subsidise repository start up– to support repositories with technical / organisational
infrastructures– to deal effectively with preservation issues over the long term
institutions get benefits:– raises profile and prestige of institution– tool for managing institutional information assets– permanent record of research activities– encourages an institutional identity in intellectual output
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Nottingham ePrints
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Nottingham eprints - record
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SHERPA repositories
Birkbeck Birmingham Bristol British Library Cambridge Durham Edinburgh
Glasgow Imperial Leeds LSE Kings College Newcastle Nottingham
Oxford Royal Holloway Sheffield SOAS UCL York AHDS
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Institutional repositories worldwide
– United States (57) – United Kingdom (29) – Canada (17) – Sweden (13) – France (12) – Netherlands (12) – Italy (11) – Germany (9) – Australia (8) – Hungary (4)
– China (4) – Brazil (3) – Denmark (3) – Portugal (2) – South Africa (2) – Austria (2) – India (2) – Japan (2) – Mexico (2) – Ireland (2)
– Belgium (2) – Finland (1) – Slovenia (1) – Israel (1) – Norway (1) – Switzerland (1) – Croatia (1) – Peru (1) – Spain (1)
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repositories set up in each partner institution papers being added negotiations with publishers discussions on preservation of eprints work on IPR and deposit licences advocacy campaigns
SHERPA - progress
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A virtual research environment
offers personalised services syntheses access to information and services provides a supported working environment used for finding information used for disseminating information facilitates collaboration in new ways
and across old boundaries
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Arc
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Oaister
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