Group 1 – Session 3 Key Points

Experiences in digital archiving Who is involved? –Partnerships with library and computer centre –Who should be responsible? –Who pays for it? No money to be found within libraries What is being archived? –Digitisation is often project-based (externally funded) –Yes: Academic papers, Student theses –No: scientific data Technology issues –having to redo work due to new technologies. –smaller libraries: availability of technology eBooks on demand (for out of copyright texts) –take-up is an issue –who pays – student?

Problems with Project-based approach No overall strategy What happens after digitisation? –Long-term preservation Limited both in timeframe and geographically –Very little collaboration with other institutes –Collaboration planned for future

Policies –Information Policy Plan –Collection policy –Preservation plans Role of the national library –(e.g. e-Depot in the Netherlands) Feeds into a digitisation plan

Group 1 – Session 4 Key Points

Public/private partnerships British Library / Microsoft Digitisation example – would this work in other countries? Public/public partnerships: Paris Universitas –Confederation – only recently co-ordinated approach –Learning Centre –Access to teaching materials Netherlands – Planned 3TU (Technical Universities) Data Centre

Open Access Need to make it very easy to add content Reasons for not depositing material: –Time to deposit material –Creating metadata Who should be responsible for the work? Where should the work be done? Unique Author identifier Download statistics might be useful Flexibility needed with what/how research is made available Role of an overall Research Information System – a researcher fills out metadata only once. e.g. for theses – making records creation as part of the research process. Recognition / impact factor / ranking system is important – it will take a long period for open access to gain the same level of recognition as other journals. Alternatives – Mesur Project in US measures actual usage