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Maximizing Benefits of Institutional Repositories: Landscape, Networks, and Rise

Explore the landscape of open access repositories and how they offer benefits for authors, researchers, and institutions. Learn about institutional repositories, networks like SHERPA and DRIVER, and the rise of repository directories.

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Maximizing Benefits of Institutional Repositories: Landscape, Networks, and Rise

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  1. The Repositories Landscape and the RSP MIMAS Open Forum Bill Hubbard 9th July 2008

  2. The Open Access landscape • Open Access Journals • Open Access Repositories • Repositories work alongside traditional and OA publication models • Offer Open Access benefits • Offer additional benefits for authors, researchers, institutions, research funders and research process

  3. Why institutional repositories? • Practical reasons • use institutional infrastructure • integration into work-flows and systems • support is close to academic users and contributors • The OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and access many repositories • subject-based portals or views • institutional storage and support

  4. Repositories • Institutions have repositories • open to institution’s academics • Networks of repositories • SHERPA, DARENet, ARROW - country networks • DRIVER - European network • Some specific subject repositories • arXiv - 482,478 items • UKPMC - 948,500 full-text articles • AgentLink Publications Clearinghouse - 1403 items

  5. Rise of Repositories • Directory of repositories - OpenDOAR • www.opendoar.org • 1157 open access repositories • started registration in 2006 . . . • 200 added in 2007 • . . . and nearly 200 added in first half 2008 • 81% are institutional

  6. Repositories by Continent

  7. European Repositories

  8. Repositories in Russell & 1994 Groups • Queen’s University • ( University of Reading ) • Royal Holloway • University of St Andrews • University of Sheffield • SOAS • University of Southampton • University of Surrey • University of Sussex • University of Warwick • UCL • University of York • University of Bath • Birkbeck • University of Birmingham • University of Bristol • University of Cambridge • Cardiff University • University of Durham • University of East Anglia • University of Edinburgh • ( University of Essex ) • University of Exeter • University of Glasgow • Goldsmiths • Imperial College • King's College London • Lancaster University • University of Leeds • University of Leicester • University of Liverpool • Loughborough University • LSE • University of Manchester • University of Newcastle • University of Nottingham • University of Oxford • Queen Mary

  9. Repository content • Postprints • Preprints • Datasets • Learning objects • Videos • Sound files • linkage between these objects • Theses • Dissertations • Royalty publications • Conference papers • Technical reports • Grey literature

  10. Institutional repository - usage • Exposure for harvesting . . . • Linkage to departmental pages • Linkage to personal pages - career logs • RAE/REF - citation and usage analyses • Beyond pdf - text and data-mining • Overlay journals • Virtual Research Environments • Web 2.0 - mash-ups and tagging

  11. Assistance - examples • RSP - www.rsp.ac.uk • Intute Repository Search - irs.ukoln.ac.uk • The Depot - depot.edina.ac.uk • SHERPA - www.sherpa.ac.uk • OpenDOAR - www.opendoar.org and ~/search • RoMEO - www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo • JULIET - www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet • BASE - digital.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php • DRIVER - www.driver-support.eu • UKCoRR - www.ukcorr.org

  12. RSP - Repositories Support Project • Website - www.rsp.ac.uk • Briefing Papers • Repository Managers - Senior Managers - Technical • Outreach Programme • Professional Briefing Series - Workshops - Surgeries • Summer and Winter Schools • Events • Support Programme • Consultancy visits • support@rsp.ac.uk • 0845 257 6860

  13. Bill Hubbard bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk

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