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ePrints UK: a service provider project

ePrints UK: a service provider project. Ruth Martin UKOLN, University of Bath r.martin@ukoln.ac.uk. A few definitions first….

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ePrints UK: a service provider project

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  1. ePrints UK: a service provider project Ruth Martin UKOLN, University of Bath r.martin@ukoln.ac.uk www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  2. A few definitions first… An e-print is an electronic copy of an academic research paper, either before the stage of refereeing and acceptance by a scholarly journal (“pre-print”) or after (“post-print”). www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  3. Definitions continued… An e-print archive is a repository of metadata and sometimes the full text of e-print papers. It provides a simple interface to allow the depositer to enter the metadata for the article as well as attaching the full text. www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  4. OAI-compliant e-print archives …share the same metadata to make their contents interoperable with one another and thus allow the metadata to be harvested by other OAI-compliant archives. www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  5. Why archive? “online articles are more highly cited because of easier availability"  Steve Lawrence, Nature (2001) vol 411, no. 6837, p.521. www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  6. More definitions… The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides an interoperability framework for metadata harvesting. A data provider is a source repository of e-print metadata records. A service provider harvests those records using the OAI-PMH. www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  7. ePrints UK • A service provider project • Funded by JISC under the FAIR programme http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/development/programmes/fair.html • Partnered by the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), University of Southampton, and OCLC. www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  8. ePrints UK architecture www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  9. A technical project? • Shortage of UK based e-print archives • Shortage of records in those archives • Bias towards scientific and technological subjects • Cultural, managerial, legal, and technical barriers to overcome. www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  10. How to tackle the record shortage problem? • Harvest from international archives • But we’re called ePrints UK! • Help other FAIR projects to advocate the development of e-print (and e-thesis) archives and the practice of self-archiving. www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  11. Barriers • IPR issues • Quality control • Inertia • Politics • Institutional identity v subject identity www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  12. For some answers… Try the SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist and Resource Guide The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR-Guide.html www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

  13. ePrints UK needs you! Ruth Martin r.martin@ukoln.ac.uk Tel: 01225 386354 UKOLN University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk

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