Bernard RENTIER Rector, University of Liège, Belgium Chair, EOS

Through Repositories are scanned by search engines make the material available directly or through an e-print request Should Repositories be central? thematic? institutional?

Central Fail to gather everything Cannot impose mandates by lack of authority Make life easier for institutions Thematic Only seductive in definite fields Cannot impose mandates by lack of authority

Funder repositories Fail to gather everything, only what they have funded Can impose mandate for funding, renewals or further requests Can collect data automatically from IRs to generate repertoires of the research they have funded

Institutional repositories (IR) Gather everything Can impose mandates for carreer progress Generate institutional repertoires automatically Can collect data automatically for their own repositories and records

IRs provide researchers with: The means to disseminate their work, free, to the World Secure storage (for completed work and for work-in- progress) A location for unpublished supporting data One input-many outputs (CVs, publications) A personal marketing tool IRs provide Universities with: A tool for research assessment A showcase of their research output

User-friendly interface Top-down message Communicate rationale Good will, motivation > carrot & stick Stick : restrict official publication list (for promotions or internal grant applications) to that generated from full-text deposits in IR Carrot :

Open Repository & Bibliography of Liège University Developed in house using Dspace 18 months development Launched Nov 26, 2008 After 13 months: 27,000 recordings, 68% full text, in ROARs top 50 Success due to mandate (enforced by status as only bibliographic source for in-house evaluations)

A collective tool to coach institutions wishing to set up an IR Informations Tips Dos and Donts References Statistics News and views Legal issues Etc.

Bernard RENTIER (Chairman), U. Liege, Belgium Tom COCHRANE, QUT, Brisbane, Australia William DAR, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India Stevan HARNAD, UQAM, Montréal, Québec & U. Southampton, UK Keith JEFFERY, Sci & Tech Facilities Council, Swindon, UK Sijbolt NOORDA, VSNU, The Netherlands Stuart SHIEBER, Harvard U., Cambridge, USA Ian SIMPSON, U. Stirling, UK Peter SUBER, Harvard U., Cambridge, USA John WILLINSKY, Stanford U., U. British Columbia & Simon Fraser U., USA Alma SWAN, Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK

A collective tool to coach institutions wishing to set up an IR Membership to support basic expenses 500 / yr (institutional) 50 / yr (individual)

Registry of Open Access Repositories Directory of Open Access Journals EOS (Enabling Open Scholarship)