Repositories, Learned Societies and Research Funders Stephen Pinfield University of Nottingham
Outline Repositories: What they are What they do What they dont do What they should do What they might do
What repositories are
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Repositories Subject / institutional Open access / restricted access E-prints / other digital content
Open archives Open access –free, unrestricted, immediate availability of full content (and unrestricted re-use) Interoperable –Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI PMH)
OAI Protocol: key concepts End User Data Providers Service Provider Harvester
Publication & self-archiving Author writes paper Author submits paper to journal Editor and referees review paper Author revises paper Author submits final version Publisher copy edits and formats paper Author self-archives paper in e-print repository Paper published in journal post-print pre-print
What repositories do
Provide (open) access to content –to research community –to other stakeholders: health professionals, industry, media etc. Accelerate dissemination Store and manage content Preserve content Complement journals –provide copies of papers –provide services Act as shop window for institution/organisation Expose content/metadata for harvesting
OAI Service Providers What repositories plus Service Providers do Search – retrieve Value-added services
What repositories dont do right now
Repositories DONT… Provide peer review Provide journal brand Provide the article of record Replace journals Cost a lot!
What repositories should do
RCUK The June 2006 updated statement: Reaffirms the principle that publicly- funded research should be publicly available Devolves responsibility to individual research councils Initiates further consultation and research
Research Councils OA mandate: BBSRC, ESRC, MRC OA encouraged: CCLRC Policy to be released soon: AHRC, NERC No OA policy: EPSRC, PPARC
Wellcome Open access mandate Deposit in (UK)PMC Fund OA charges Publisher agreements Open licence agreements Deposit of article of record
What repositories might do
What repositories might do (1) More value-added services –search –citation analysis/metrics –plagiarism detection –text/data mining Create publishing efficiencies
What repositories might do (2) Deconstructing the journal –content distribution –quality control Overlay journals Quality –pre-publication screening –pre-publication peer review –post-publication metrics –post-publication dialogue
Role of Learned Societies? Journal publishers – new business models Data providers Service providers Quality control/measurement services Overlay journal providers