V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 The plan WhoThe Project Manager Goal and corresponding tasks today Interim results, and sneak preview of a new service in development; highlighting the portal, technical aspects and the dataset pilot Decentralised subject repository Managed by consortium of leading libraries A possible model of interest for other Duration mins + time for questions

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 “This EU funding and the widespread collaboration on NEEO are exactly what will make this a success, and, more important, critically allow the world greater and readier access to best research.” Danny Quah, Prof. of Economics and Head of Dept Co-funded by the European Union

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Key objectives To improve the usability and global visibility of economics research Providing easier and open access to high-quality multilingual academic output of leading economics institutes and their researchers Via a sustainable portal with aggregated and enhanced metadata enabling an infrastructure for new services

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Background 18 partners, including Columbia Univeristy, + (16 EU-funded, including the LSE, universities of Oxford, Tilburg, Toulouse, Leuven, Warwick, and UCL) Finance: almost € 2m = +/- $ 2,7m eContentplus, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission Nereus: Consortium of 23 academic institutions and their libraries with strengths in economics Duration: 30 months Sept – March 2010

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Some stats 890> authors participating Over 2,300 researchers at NEEO institutions in publication lists 41,108 metadata records 16,868 full text records 2,583 current content Publishing over 4,000 docs in 2007 Currently 6 partners online & RePEc Economists Online gateway, versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, version 1.3. Public launch 28 January 2010

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Accessibility RePEC services –IDEAS (4)IDEAS –Econpapers (100)Econpapers –RePEC author service (22)RePEC author service Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (10)SSRN Econbiz (1)Econbiz Google Scholar (294)Google Scholar Google (185,000)Google Author web page (0) Economists Online123

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Improving access to full text

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Key results User requirement studies –Defining and confirming content acquisition and service specs. e.g. books & chapters, datasets and DB, aim –Quality content, scope, would contribute, visibility+, 73% rec Advocacy support: awareness and dissemination plan, IPR report, PR Report on the data repository and data issues report Business and sustainability plan Workshops and lessons learnt Long-term preservation Economists Online portal

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V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Points of interest to OR09 1.Technical aspects 2.Enhanced publications: Data

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May Technical aspects: NEEO SOA

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Technical aspects 1.OAI-PMH exchange of DIDL-MODS formatted metadata 2.OAI-PMH exchange of usage metadata 3.Full-text searching 4.Automated publication lists per author 5.Automated enrichment of metadata 6.Integration with RePEc: push and pull 7.Multilingual searching

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Enhanced publications: data Access to the primary research datasets (and supplementary materials) that underpin economics publications Exploring the issues that hinder OA availability of research data, e.g. privacy, IPR, DB rights One of the only concerted European efforts in the social sciences that systematically links primary research datasets to publications

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Enhanced publications: data Pilot with 10 datasets per partner Using DDI standard and Dataverse NEEO accredits all contributors to the data life cycle, that is, dataset owners, data sources, data providers/distributors (capturing data provenance info) Case study for researchers Spin-offs –Emergence of institutional departmental policies for archiving, sharing and improving access to research data –Introduces the development of new skills and professions for the library community: The Data Librarian

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Is this a model of interest to others building subject repository services?

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Final conference Theme: The future of subject repositories –Geographic overviews: US, Australia and Europe –Workshops on interoperability, datasets, IPR, content recruitment, multilingual systems and usage statistics January 2010, British Library, London Programme to be published shortly Interested in attending? Please mail

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 A model for other subject repositories? A strong consortium of institutions with a member base With high-level support from the subject community Where the institution’s rank and quality content is key Making concrete efforts to provide new content OA Showcasing and disseminating work worldwide Data ownership and management is at & with the organization A central md store and portal, where added value services are developed and tested collaboratively Knowledge exchange activities increase efficiency and inspire A sustainable model that can be built upon in the future

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Are you interested in joining us?

V. Proudman, OR09, Atlanta 18 May 2009 Acknowledgements