The Institutional Repository: Open Access’s Green Alternative Douglas Macbeth The Jackson Laboratory AIRI 2012 Philadelphia

2 Numbers of OPEN ACCESS Biomed Papers

3 What is an Institutional Repository? Platform for fast, cheap, author-initiated Self-Archiving “AKA” Green OA “AKA” the Institutional Repository model IR’s Host research output of an institution Funding agency 50+ / universities 100+ adopted strong Open Access (AO) policies (i.e. HHMI) IR asks authors obtain right and submission permissions Performs no peer-review May host peer-reviewed published papers May contain Gold OA papers with adequate permissions

4 What is an Institutional Repository? Online discoverable collection of Open Access (OA) works Open Archives Initiative compliance - searchability Protocols for Metadata Harvesting – interoperability System that provides Metrics - Usage Statistics Types of IR Platforms – Hosted vs OS Local Bepress – 137 sites (PaaS) DSpace Multi-purpose platform ~ theses, archives, media “Organizational commitment to the stewardship” of an institution’s works ( Clifford Lynch )

5 IR as Cure for Research Publication Problems Researchers write for impact, not money Scholarly journals don’t pay authors Voluntary Peer-reviewer Increased Grant cost of publication in traditional journals Want to expand audience’s knowledge Need to advance their own subject knowledge Publication determines promotion / tenure Over Reliance on Impact Factor metric Established scientist vs. new scientist Surrender rights and permissions to publishers

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9 Next Steps for The Mouseion Support and Promote OA publishing Encourage Lab authors to obtain rights to their works Educate Lab authors as to their OA alternatives Re-exam our staff publications for OA Green availability Think Creatively on how to host other Lab Depts/Services Champion Gold OA as “inevitable” OA standard (Finch Report, UK)

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11 Collaboration with Researchers Embedded Librarianship Supporting Scholarly Publishing New Role / Visibility for Library Professional Preservation Increased Access Establish Guidelines for Research Data Re-purpose your Unique and Special Collections Exposes your Research to the World

Questions? Douglas Macbeth AIRI 2012 Philadelphia

13 So why call the JAX Library Repository The Mouseion? "This legendary library was the mind and glory of the greatest city on earth, and was the first center for scientific research in the history of the world, in this Mouseion lived a community of scientists who discovered the sciences of physics, linguistics, medicine, astronomy, geography, philosophy, mathematics, biology and geology. Here scientific studies reached adulthood. Here genius flourished. Here in the Library of Alexandria were the first serious trials to understand the world." ~Carl Sagan, Cosmos