12/12/2015 Open Archives Institutional Issues Dr Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services, UCL

12/12/2015 Crisis, what crisis? The pricing of journals Intellectual Property Rights Alternative Publishing models –SPARC Electronic archiving

12/12/2015 Finance

12/12/2015 The institutional view Costs of the STM crisis 24x7 services –any time, any place, anywhere The Research Assessment Exercise Growth in library use

12/12/2015 The academic view (1) Peer Review –Membership of Editorial Boards IPR – Signed away; Institutions slow to realise implications Archiving –Digital Libraries Coalition is vital

12/12/2015 The academic view (2) Public Library of Science – org/ –24948 academics from 167 countries have signed an open letter that urges publishers to allow published research reports to be included in electronic archives

12/12/2015 The academic view (3) ELSS - Electronic Library of Social Sciences –£36,800 awarded from the Royal Economic Society to further this alternative approach to journal production

12/12/2015 CURL’s view (1) Task Force on Scholarly Communication ‘Discussions’ with publishers –National deals have proved difficult for CURL –Lobby for a general review of STM publishing by the Director General of Fair Trading?

12/12/2015 CURL’s view (2) CURL is producing advocacy packs for members for 2001/2002 session CURL encourages alternative forms of publishing: –SPARC –Open Archives Initiative

12/12/2015 The way forward? OAI-compliant servers in each institution? Consortial approach: –By Region? –By Library? –By subject?

12/12/2015 The way forward? Is this best as a library-based operation? –It is an information activity –Librarians understand metadata –Initiative sits comfortably with digital libraries –Complements library housekeeping systems

12/12/2015 Risk analysis (1) Multiple costs –Universities pay for printed journals AND OAI infrastructure Importance of peer review –Peer review is essential in some subjects, but not others –Link between unrefereed e-print and later refereed publication?

12/12/2015 Risk analysis (2) What are the costs of OAIs? –Staffing costs? –Metadata costs? –Infrastructure costs? Who owns IPR? –University or individual? –OR talk about rights management?

12/12/2015 Action Plan (1) From an institutional view point: –Glasgow, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Southampton and Strathclyde are investing in OAIs –Can JISC offer funding for an evaluation of these initiatives down the line?

12/12/2015 Action Plan (2) –Can this review identify Best Practice? –Lobby the Funding Councils for monies to establish an over-arching body to co-ordinate these developments in the UK? –Obtain national funding to set up Open Archives in all universities?

12/12/2015 The biggest risk... is to do nothing and allow Universities to continue to be victims...