Open Access: its contribution to developing a National Information Strategy Elaine Fulton Director Scottish Library and Information Council Website:

Scottish Library and Information Council 2004 Scottish Library and Information Council  Advisory body Government and members Advocacy and promotion Standards  Current Activity ICT development in libraries, Interoperability, Standards schools, FE, public, Cultural Commission, Content Creation, Cultural Portal, Reader Development, Prison libraries, 21 st C govt, consultancy support to members…..

Scottish Library and Information Council 2004 Enabling Seamless Access : call for a National Information Strategy  Knowledge  Skills  Creativity  Building democratic intellect- citizenship  Health  Impact of ICT on individuals and communities NGFL, People

Scottish Library and Information Council 2004 Current Landscape  Knowledge economy  World Summit on Information Society  Economic development  e-government  Lifelong learning  Seamless access to information  Smart Successful Scotland - Digital Scotland and its various guises  Social inclusion and Universal access  Falling population

Scottish Library and Information Council 2004 Research Funding in Scotland Source: Univerisities Scotland  wins 12 per cent of the total UK funding council resources for research.  wins 12 per cent of the research councils' resources for research.  wins 13 per cent of government research departments' resources for research.  wins 12 per cent of the EU research resources spent in the UK.  has 16 per cent of all UK departments rated in the top three RAE categories.  has 12.5 per cent of all 5 and 5** - rated departments in the UK.  has 12.1 per cent of UK research active staff submitted to the 2001 RAE.

Scottish Library and Information Council 2004 Open Access – Why?  Widening Access  Economic Opportunity – Scottish Enterprise, SME’s Former students?  Best Value – modernising, 21 st C, efficient  Help secure Higher Education  Inclusive  Quality kite mark for Scottish Research Community  Scotland the Brand – leaders in the global knowledge economy

Scottish Library and Information Council 2004 Open Access – Why?  Securing the Digital Future OCLC Report. Five Year Information Format Trends, March 2004  Rightly or wrongly, in the information seekers start with the web.  Information seekers have increased expectations – Martini principle  Availability v format

Scottish Library and Information Council 2004 Open Access – Why?  How do we ensure that these information seekers can easily access Scottish Research?  Any impact of Freedom of Information legislation  Not just science but health, Enterprise, culture, government, environment…  Open Access Repositories, with the right metadata, will create a quality resource to market Scottish Research

Scottish Library and Information Council 2004 Open Access – Next steps  Sign up to declaration. SLIC will be ensuring that this is an intrinsic element of its own Innovation and Development programme.  Encourage Funding Councils to adopt similar approach  Establish institutional or shared repositories, which meet interoperable metadata standards, to ensure effective and efficient retrieval of information

Scottish Library and Information Council 2004 Open Access – Next steps  Encourage researchers to at least publish a Executive summary and deposit this  Lobby Scottish Executive to offer its support and ensure that publicly funded research has to be published for the wider public good.  Could Scotland be the first to have a nationally agreed policy on Open Access?....