Norwegian Open Research Archives (NORA)

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Norwegian Open Research Archives (NORA)

• How and why is the NORA project adding value to
  the institutional repositories established in
  Norway?

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Elin StangelandThe University of Bergen
Libraryelin.stangeland_at_ub.uib.noMarianne
MoeNorwegian University of Science and
Technology Librarymarianne.moe_at_ub.ntnu.no
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Overview

• Open Access and institutional repositories
• Institutional repositories in Norway
• The NORA project (Norwegian Open Research
  Archive)
• Collaboration advantages
• Alternatives to NORA
• Comparisons
• Future development

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Institutional repository (IR) a definition

• digital collection capturing and preserving the
  intellectual output of a single or
  multi-university community (SPARC)
• http//www.sparceurope.org/Repositories/
• an online locus for collecting and preserving
  in digital form the intellectual output of an
  institution, particularly a research institution
  (Wikipedia, 2006)
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_reposit
  ory

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The content of an IR

• Varies from repository to repository depending on
  the institutions policy
• In general
• Peer-reviewed articles (pre-print and post-print)
• Conference articles
• Theses (PhD and masters)
• Working papers
• Book chapters
• Various presentations

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Open access on Norway

• The Norwegian Association of Higher Education
  Institutions (UHR) recommended in a letter to the
  member institutions in 2005 that their
  institutions should
• Set up and develop institutional open publishing
  archives
• Cooperate with other institutions with regard to
  a collective publishing archive
• Adopt guidelines recommending that authors
  publish their scientific articles in parallel,
  i.e. publish their scientific articles both in
  scientific journals and in the institution's own
  publishing archive

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IRs in Norway

• University of Oslo
• Masters theses
• PhD theses
• Reports
• DUO-software

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• University of Bergen
• Journal articles
• PhD theses
• Masters theses
• DSpace

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• University of Tromsø
• Currently
• Masters theses on a VT ETD-db platform
• DSpace installation
• in progress
• The Munin service
• available in September

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• Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Masters and PhD theses
• Reports
• Conference papers
• Diva

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• Pepia project
• A joint project between BIBSYS and 22 libraries
• Estimated date of completion November 2006

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The NORA project

• Part I - 2005
• Establish a national search service for open
  institutional repositories (IRs) in Norway the
  service will be part of the Norwegian Digital
  Library (NDB)
• This includes the development of an OAI-PMH
  harvesting service
• Stimulate Norwegian universities, university
  colleges and other research institutions to
  establish local institutional repositories
• Create a harmonised metadata model for Norwegian
  IRs
• Make the service available through a standard
  search protocol (for example SRU/W) for use in
  local search systems (such as library portals)
• Establish the service as part of NDBs common
  search system through a standard search protocol
  (for example SRU/W)
• Supervise area development and inform the
  Norwegian research community on open repositories
  and open access in general

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• Part II 2006
• Continue development of the national search
  service for open IRs in Norway.
• This also includes implementation of Open URL
  support
• Assist local IRs to facilitate for metadata
  harvesting
• Harvest and ascertain quality of metadata in
  local IRs
• Make NORA available internationally through
  global vendors of search services
• Harmonise use of indexing schema
• Develop an URNNBN-service together with the
  national library, and establish an
  internationally adapted resolution service
• Create support for submission of articles to the
  IRs through Frida, a CRIS used by the largest
  Norwegian universities.
• Establish an information web-site about Open
  Access in a Norwegian context
• Supervise area development and inform the
  Norwegian research community on open repositories
  and open access in general

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NORA
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Collaboration advantages

• Financial advantages
• Central access point to all IR resources in
  Norway
• Standardization
• Required support for OAI-PMH
• Common metadata model
• Norwegian Science Index
• Submission via CRIS
• Support for SRU/W etc.

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Alternatives to NORA

• Disciplinary repositories
• arXiv.org
• EconPapers
• OAI service providers
• OAIster
• BASE
• Google and Google Scholar
• Scirus

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NORA compared to other services

• Search limited to Norwegian academic resources
• Facilitated participation
• Subject searching
• Integration with CRIS
• Main target a common gateway to Norwegian
  research documents

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Future developments

• Common vocabulary for document types and resource
  types
• Add new repositories to NORA
• Version control
• Implement the use of the Norwegian Science Index
  for subject indexing purposes
• Lobbyism make Norwegian research funding bodies
  to make self-archiving a pre-requisite when
  funding research

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Questions?