1. ePrints The Glasgow Experience William J Nixon Glasgow University Library 27 February 2002

2. The Open Archives Initiative OAI develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.

3. OAI’s Roots Its roots lie in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication.. But… it now recognises a broader remit for opening up access to a range of digital materials.

4. OAI Protocol “Low barrier intraoperability framework” Metadata: 15 elements of Dublin Core OAI Protocol 1.1 OAI version 2.0 will be released in May 2002

5. A Tale of Two Providers Data Providers support the OAI protocol as a means of exposing metadata about their content. Service Providers issue OAI protocol requests to data providers and use the metadata as a basis for building value-added services.

6. ARC Cross Archive Searching Service

7. Screenshot of Results

8. Wider World JISC FAIR Programme “inspired by the vision of the Open Archives Initiative” Mellon funding of $1.5M for seven projects in the United States

9. Eprints.org Developed at the Electronics and Computer Science Department of the University of Southampton. ePrints version 2.0 now launched We are currently running 1.1.1 eprints.org was previously supported by CogPrints, funded by JISC as part of its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme.

10. The Catalyst of Crisis Crisis in Scholarly Communication Alternative Publishing Models and the push for self-archiving Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)

11. Create Change Website

12. OAI at Glasgow The overarching aim of the development of ePrints at the University of Glasgow is to provide an effective [further] means of ensuring the disclosure of, and access to the scholarly work and research of this institution.

13. Complementary Resource The University of Glasgow ePrints repository will exist, not in competition with the subject based archives, which are already established but rather as a complementary Institutional resource.

14. Goals at Glasgow: Disclosure and access Disclose Glasgow scholarship –Pre-prints & re-prints (formal) –grey literature (reports, conference papers?) –possibly theses and books… Originally… make RAE submission papers available Contribute to liberation of scholarship Raise Glasgow profile

15. Non-goal! Solving the long term digital preservation problem for this material!

16. Other goals Compatible with world-wide OAI infrastructure Material if possible hospitable to both display and future preservation activity

17. Getting the mix right Support, endorsement and vitally, the content of our academic colleagues / partners Resources [staff and equipment] to ensure that it is developed, marketed and launched

19. Implementation Set-up and Installation Configuration Administration Marketing / Promotion

20. Set-up and Installation Installed 3 versions: –Beta - March –1.0 - April –1.1.2 - November 2001 Installed and hosted by Computing Services Staff Configuration by Library Staff

21. Set-up Skill sets: –Apache –Perl –Unix / Red Hat Linux –MySQL Pilot service

22. Configuration Initially much trial and error “MERLIN” Look and Feel Various Document Formats Subject Listing - Library of Congress Browse by Faculties option OAI Registration

23. ePrints @ Glasgow May 2001

24. ePrints Demonstrator November 2001

25. Document Formats Those unsuitable for long term –Word We added RTF –HTML unless carefully checked HTML output from Word unsatisfactory Better formats? –PDF- added –XML?

26. Individual Record

27. Library of Congress Established Subject Scheme Used in our Library catalogue Top Level Headings –Sub-headings for local subjects as appropriate e.g. Computing Science

28. Browse by Subject May 2001

29. Browse by Subject November 2001

30. Browse by Faculties Provides an opportunity to pull papers together by Department Uses pre-configured searches which run under Advanced Search Run from “static” page which is updated manually

31. Screenshot

32. OAI Registration Not registered out of the box Compliance Testing Robustness Testing Had to register with individual service providers e.g. ARC

34. Screenshot

35. Desirable Features Intranet link (single Username / Password) ability to change password! User file over-write option Audit trail Display document status Display of multiple authors (Format)

36. Administration Submission process Administration

38. Marketing / Promotion "If you build it, they will come” - “Field of Dreams” Or Not, as initial experience suggests...

39. Policy implications Copyright Intellectual Policy Rights Collection Policies Who can submit papers? Long term archiving Quality control

40. Initial User Feedback Positive Online help quite good Additional fields and document types –Lecture Paper –Meeting Reports / Project Reports –Language –ISBN/ISSN

41. Who benefits? Operational matters Document formats and Copyright Collection policy Quality control External liaison Academic Concerns

42. Addressing Academic concerns: Giving guarantees that this will not affect the publication process Making the process as simple as possible Being clear why academics will benefit Clarifying the University's position on ownership of copyright

43. The Future Launch of ePrints - 9th April Upgrade to ePrints Version 2.0 Network of OAI Services for different content –Pre-prints –Published papers –e-Theses

44. Implementing ePrints Implementing ePrints is a no longer a luxury to simply be dreamed about... It is a new challenge for Libraries to embrace