Jisc Publications Router – helping you capture your institution’s outputs 10 Sept 2015

Lifecycle of a research article Where Router fits in 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 2 Alerts: Jisc Publications Router

Overview of Router – its rationale » Simplify many-to-many relationship between publishers and IRs » Direct articles to appropriate institution(s) » Alert institution to its outputs » Help capture them to repository or CRIS What it’s for… » Scalability: capturing outputs published globally » Capturing at acceptance Key challenges 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 3

Jisc Publications Router – mark one » Developed for Jisc by EDINA » Project objective: to demonstrate a viable prototype 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 4

Content providers to Router 1.0 » Europe PMC (metadata only) » Trial with Nature Publishing Group (with embargoed full text) Initially » Full-text feed from Europe PMC (from February 2014) » eLife (from March 2015) Currently 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 5

Engaging content providers In-principle discussions held with about a dozen further publishers » Both subscription-dominated and OA » Progressing to technical implementation has proved challenging » Plan to add direct feeds from mix of publishers » Also investigating feasibility of multi-publisher solutions 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 6

Institutions benefiting from Router 1.0 Existing participants: » University of Huddersfield from 19 May 2014 » University of Reading from 4 Aug 2014 » University of Salford from October 2014 HEIs that indicated they were scheduling installation of importer: » Leicester, Southampton, Glasgow, Robert Gordon, Sussex Registered for alerts: » Sussex, Nottingham, Brunel Signed agreement on embargoes: » MIT, Leicester Further interest from » Warwick, Bath, Liverpool 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 7

A new phase for Jisc Publications Router » Project at EDINA completed on 31 July 2015 » Succeeded in demonstrating viable prototype » Jisc has commissioned build of successor system 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 8

Introducing Jisc Publications Router 2.0 » Currently being developed by Cottage Labs » Handover to Jisc staff early 2016 » Objective to develop a pilot for service » Migrate existing institutions and content providers during August-September 2015 » Recruit new participants thereafter » Hope to move to full service status by August Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 9

New Router – new system architecture » Institution specifies parameters to decide which articles it wants » No longer needs installation of importer » Flexibility in range of systems it can deliver to » Focus on delivering current content 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 10

Operational and contractual overview 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 11 Operational overview Jisc Publications Router Publisher Repository or CRIS Publication event (& text) Contractual framework Institution Jisc Legal agreement Security Embargo periods Routing based on author affiliation to institution

Technical overview 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 12

Data interchange formats 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 13

Keeping what we’ve learned Initially » Institutions voiced preference for full-text deposit Now » Priority is to alert institutions to as much of their content as we can » Alert at acceptance, update on publication 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 14

New Router – closer integration » Closer interoperability with the rest of Jisc's OA services » Aiming for rapid expansion of content captured » Open to serve more institutions in 2016 » Exploring international interoperability 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 15

Your priorities – how can we help? Some ideas: » Pass on metadata-only notifications from multi-publisher sources? – some entries at or near acceptance… » Sharing between institutional repositories – co-author problem » Initial balance of OA vs non-OA publishers – try to go for bigger publishers first? » Anything we’ve not thought of? 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 16

jisc.ac.uk Find out more… Contact… Steve Byford Scholarly Communications Manager, Jisc 10 Sept 2015 Jisc Publications Router – Open Access and the REF, Southampton 17