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Repository Developments
University of Leeds, 29th November 2007 Peter
Cliff
With thanks to Jackie Gareth _at_ RSP for ideas
and slides
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The Buzz
Funding Opportunities
Repositories Support Project
Mandates
Digital Repositories Programmes
Conferences
JISC
Anything Else
Statistics
DRIVER
Directory of Open Access Journals
Depot
SPARC
SURF/DEST
Digital Curation Centre
Open Access
eBank
Exemplar Projects
Sun PASIG
Events
DAREnet
Open Access
UKoRR
LOREnet
Software News
Repositories Research Team
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Repository Developments

• Overview
• Where are we coming from?
• Where are we now?
• Where are we going?

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Where are we coming from? orWhy are we here? 1

• Scholars share their knowledge, always have for
  example, the discovery of penicillin
• Publishing facilitated sharing
• The Internet arrives
• Cost becomes an avoidable barrier
• Open Access

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Where are we coming from? orWhy are we here? 2

• JISC Information Environmentbuild an on-line
  information environment providing secure and
  convenient access to a comprehensive collection
  of scholarly and educational materialJISC IE
  information environment development strategy
  2001-2005
• JISC Strategy Aim 1 Priority 7innovative and
  sustainable ICT infrastructure, services and
  practice that support institutions in meeting
  their missionBuild a national infrastructure
  of interoperable digital repositories
  (addressing  institutional, subject and learning
  object repositories)JISC Strategy 2007-2009

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Where are we now?
JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme
http//www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programm
e_rep_pres.aspx
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The Numbers

• OpenDOAR reports over 1000 Repositories!

http//www.opendoar.org/onechart.php?cIDctIDrt
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20Database20-20Worldwide
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The Numbers II

• ROAR reports over 7,000,000 records!

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The Numbers III

• OpenDOAR suggests UK doing well!

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Manadates in the UK

• ROARMAP lists
• 1 Institutional Mandate
• Brunel University School of Information Systems
  Computing and Mathematics
• 1 Departmental Mandate
• Electronics and Computer Science, University of
  Southampton
• 13 Funder Mandates, including
• AHRC, JISC, Arthritis Research Foundation,
  British Heart Foundation, Department of Health
  (UK), ESRC, MRC, NERC, BBSRC, Wellcome Trust

Source http//www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysi
gnup/
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RSP News

• News and events
• http//www.rsp.ac.uk/news/rss.xml
• Events programme
• http//www.rsp.ac.uk/events/index.phpfuture
• Institutional Support Mentoring
• support_at_rsp.ac.uk

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Open Access News

• Lots going on check
• http//www.earlham.edu/peters/fos/fosblog.html
• http//www.eprints.org/news/
• SPARC/SPARCeurope
• http//www.arl.org/sparc/
• http//www.sparkyawards.org/
• http//www.sparceurope.org/

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If You Dont Know Already

• UKCoRR
• http//www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/UKCORR_Launch.htm
  l
• DRIVER
• http//www.driver-repository.eu/
• http//www.driver-support.eu/en/index.html
• APSR
• http//www.apsr.edu.au/

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Search Service News Not Much ?

• Search services
• OAIster
• http//www.oaister.org/dataproviders.html
  http//www.lib.umich.edu/labs/search/
• Intute Repository Search
• http//irs.ukoln.ac.uk/
• BASE
• http//www.base-search.net/
• ARROW
• http//stats.nla.gov.au/arrow/
• GoogleScholar
• http//www.earlham.edu/7Epeters/fos/googlecrawlin
  g.htm

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Conferences and Events Recent

• UKCoRR
• http//www.ukcorr.org/events/nov2007-event.php
• 23rd November 2007, Nottingham, UK
• Sun PASIG Meeting
• http//sun-pasig.org http//sun-pasig.org/posts.
  php
• 14th-16th November 2007, Paris, France

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Conferences and Events Coming Up

• Getting the Most Out of Your Institutional
  Repository
• http//www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/ir07/
• 3rd December 2007, Beltsville, Maryland, USA
• Open Repositories 2008
• http//openrepositories.org/ http//or08.ecs.sot
  on.ac.uk/
• Call for papers deadline 7th or 9th December!
• 1st-4th April 2008, Southampton, UK

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Funding Opportunities

• JISC Circular 05/07 Digital Repositories
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding
  _calls/2007/11/circular0507.aspx
• Deadline 14th January 2008, 12pm
• JISC ITT Study into Evolution of Working
  Practices
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding
  _calls/2007/11/evolutionofwp.aspx
• Deadline 13th December 2007, 12pm
• Other JISC calls at http//www.jisc.ac.uk/funding
  opportunities/
• Eprints Call for Plugins
• http//www.eprints.org/software/cfp.php
• Deadline 31st January 2008

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Where are we going?

• Still building the network
• Still persuing Open Access
• Data/Information Management
• Web services Transparency

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Where are we going?
THIS IS OK!

• Still building the network
• Still pursuing Open Access
• Data/Information Management
• Web services Transparency

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Questions?
Get in touch p.d.cliff_at_ukoln.ac.uk support_at_rsp.ac
.uk
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Repository Developments Peter Cliff,
UKOLN p.d.cliff_at_ukoln.ac.uk support_at_rsp.ac.uk