The Next Generation of IRs enabling closer cooperation

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The Next Generation of IRs enabling closer
cooperation networking

• International Workshop on institutional
  repositories and enhanced and alternative metrics
  of publication impact
• 20-21 February 2006, Berlin, Humboldt University
• Lars Björnshauge, Lund University

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The Current Situation

• Development implementation of IRs are spreading
  rapidly in
• Universities
• University colleges
• Research Centers
• etc.
• But .

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Still early days!!

• From the beginning an additional channel for
  dissemination of publications
• To get more visibility
• To get higher impact
• Often initiated by committed researchers
  librarians
• To a large extent still to be labelled as
  experiments

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The Open Access Movement

• Inceased attention to the open access issue from
  researchers, decision makers, funding bodies
• Declarations (e.g. Budapast, Berlin)
• Recommendations Mandates (e.g. Wellcome Trust,
  CERN)

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The Open Access Movement

• Declarations and mandates generates increased
  attention to the OA-publishing dissemination
  channels (incl. IRs)
• Means serious business!

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More stakeholders

• Internal stakeholders
• External stakholders
• When more stakeholders enter the scene new needs
  and demands are emerging

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Internal stakeholders

• Authors, departments, faculties
• Research management
• Information department
• Legal department
• Archive
• Library

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Numerous purposes

• Not only dissemination but as well
• Record of the institutional output
• Annual Report
• Research assessment
• Taylored Author CVs
• Putting new demands on IR-managers

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Professionalization

• When IR move upwards on the institutional agenda
  certain issues become more important
• Costs,
• Efficiency,
• Accountability,
• Sustainability
• Push towards Professionalization!

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External stakeholders

• Research funders demand
• Quality
• Figures
• Metrics
• Potential service providers want
• Quality
• Uniformity

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Moving from experiment to service means

• Ability to comply with standards
• Ability to provide effective workflows
• Ability to provide long term availability
• Ability to provide consultancy
• Ability to provide figures
• Ability to provide not only visibility but as
  well impact

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Traditional publishing

• Standards/Definitions/Formats
• Journals
• Articles
• Metadata
• References
• Allows development of secondary services
  AI-services, databases, citation indexes etc.

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IRs are a new phenomenon

• First open source software (E-prints 2000)
• Low degree of uniformity
• Standards
• Definitions
• Formats
• Protocols
• Developing secondary services based on IRs poses
  lots of problems

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Experiences

• Working with OpenDOAR
• www.opendoar.org
• Quality of IRs is very varied
• Services based on IRs as of today tend to
• Have a lot of noise
• Be quick dirty

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Critical success factors for IRs

• Descriptions definitions
• Document types
• Subject classification
• IPR policy issues
• Granularity (document types and subject)
• Quality (peer review, versions etc.)
• Last but not least filling the IRs!!

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The next generation of IRs

• Organizational issues
• Integrated in the operations of the institution
  (university, research center)
• Legal issues approved by the legal entity in the
  institution

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The next generation of IRs

• Operating according to standards
• Adequate granularity
• Ability to be harvested by service providers
  according to standards and protocols
• Certification

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Cooperation networking

• Contribute to development and implementation of
  standards and certification programmes
• Advocacy
• Creation of an international infrastructure to
  support the further development of IRs

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Cooperation networking

• The activities of national entities like
• JISC (UK)
• SURF (The Netherlands)
• DINI (Germany)
• other national entities
• and their cooperation is crucial for the
  development for the next generation of IRs

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Catching up

• The agenda for IRs
• Filling the IRs
• Advocacy
• Workflows
• Figures
• Professionalization
• Standards
• Handling legal issues (IPR)
• Certification

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Catching up

• The agenda for IRs (continued)
• Enable the content of IRs to be discovered and
  picked up by tomorrows quality service providers
• And ultimately Enable the content to discovered
  by users as an integrated part alongside
  conventional content (journals articles etc.)!

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Cooperation Networking

• Both
• A prerequisite for developing the next generation
  of IRs
• And
• A result of the development of the next
  generation of IRs

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This workshop is but one of many much needed
cooperating networking activities in order to
bring the important issues forward!!Thanks to
the organizers for that!
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Thank you for your attention

• lars.bjornshauge_at_lub.lu.se