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1 DAEDALUS Project William J Nixon Service Development Susan Ashworth Advocacy

2 Scholarly Communications Debate Arisen out of problems caused to academic communities by excessive price inflation on journals Debate taken up strongly by CURL Open access movement gaining ground in the US and Europe - driven by SPARC Open Archives are a single strand of Open Access

3 Context

4 DAEDALUS Part of the FAIR Programme Funded until June 2005 Partner with the CURL SHERPA Project Core strategic aim for GUL Two strands –Advocacy –Service Development

5 Issues we will explore Cultural –Encouraging use Organisational –IPR and copyright –Plagiarism Technical –Standards and formats

6 Advocacy Advocacy Remit Our Strategies How you can help The Major issues are NOT technical

7 Remit to create an Open Access culture to gather content for the range of Open Archives services to provide advice on policy implications, guidelines and processes of the services to formulate an exit strategy that ensures a full and fully used service

8 Strategies at Glasgow Project Board including an academic from each of three territorial subject groups Scholarly Communications working party including range of Library staff Contacting those academics who are already self-publishing Exploring taking over departmental publications databases (RAE)

9 Strategies cont…. Raising debate within departments - programme of attending departmental meetings Regional meetings, possible subject based, in collaboration with other FAIR projects Attempting to get strategic decisions at a high level within the University e.g. on submission of theses

10 Assistance for Staff Focus for publisher copyright policies Range of repositories Mediated submission service –Record enhancement –File conversion

11 Subject Librarian Input Get on agendas of Faculty Committees Arrange for Project Managers to attend meetings/give presentations in departments etc. Encourage feedback, both good and bad, on the issues Promote issues in Departmental documentation e.g. Newsletters Distribute publicity materials

12 Other JISC FAIR projects E-Theses projects at Edinburgh and RGU HaiRST at Strathclyde SHERPA – Partners with Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Oxford universities ROMEO Project at Loughborough

13 Some Concerns Plagiarism Integrity of the work will be compromised That no journal will subsequently publish it That it will break existing copyright agreements with publishers Who benefits? Institutional liability Document formats Collection policy Quality control -From Project RoMEO Author Questionnaire

14 Service Development Published papers / ePrints Pre-prints, grey literature, technical reports, working papers Doctoral theses Research Finding Aids Administrative Documents Search service

15 Range of Software GNU Eprints (Southampton) DSpace (MIT & H-P) ETD-db (Virginia Tech) ARC Search Software (Old Dominion)

16 Complementary Resource The University of Glasgow ePrints repository will exist, not in competition with the subject based archives, which are already established but rather as a complementary Institutional resource.

17 GNU Eprints Developed at the Electronics and Computer Science Department of the University of Southampton. ePrints version 2.0 launched 14 Feb 02 We are currently running 2.2 67+ sites now running ePrints eprints.org was previously supported by CogPrints, funded by JISC as part of its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme.

18 ePrints at Glasgow

19 ePrints Record

20 OAIster

21 DSpace Development driven by Academics at MIT Freely available from November 2002 Digital Preservation component Metadata: Dublin Core “qualified” DSpace Federation: Cambridge Installation began February 2003

22 DSpace at MIT

23 E-Theses Virginia Tech software Complementary and voluntary Strong Faculty support Partners with: Theses Alive! and E-Theses Project

24 ETD-db

25 DAEDALUS – Freeing Research at the University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus DAEDALUS


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