1. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Facilitating access and dissemination of research: role of the university library Robin Adams Irish Universities Association Librarians’ Group

2. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Traditional research role of the academic library Acquisition Organisation Dissemination Preservation

3. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Contemporary research role of the academic Library Acquire, organise, access, preserve + Enhance access and use Add value Create and remodel research resources Links disparate resources Evaluate Engage in the discovery process

4. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 IReL e-journals initiative - background Emerging economic role of scientific research User pressure on university/research funding agencies Subscription price inflation Value for money International exemplars (FINeLIB, Canada, JISC) Technological progress

5. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 IReL – summary of service Consortial purchasing scheme for 7 universities Access to (1) STM and (2) A&H material Supported by State agencies – research/education (Science Foundation Ireland/Higher Education Authority) Supplementary funding 3,000+ e-titles Centrally negotiated Centrally administered

6. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 IReL timescale May 2004 – invited proposal Science Foundation Ireland and Higher Education Authority decisions €20M over 5 years Universities, initially Phase I live by December 2004 Now 6,000 STM titles – 2006 extended to HSS €17m funding Now 18,000 HSS titles

7. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 IReL Impact Survey 55% no longer use print versions of IReL titles (63% STM, 34% HSS) ‘very positive’ impact – speed, coverage, ease of access, greater competitiveness, multidisciplinary research, currency Use – literature searching, identifying publication target, current awareness, thesis, research proposal, teaching, supervision, impact assessment, cv prep

8. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 IReL Architecture Publisher package model IUA Librarians’ Group oversight Negotiating agent – Content Complete Ltd. IRIS Ltd. as the managing agent Direct consultation with users IReL Model Licence 2-3 year licences

9. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 IReL - deliverables Powerful resource for research, teaching, learning Attract high-flyers Promotes local academic and national socio- economic objectives Establishes top-slicing model Positive user impact: affirms role of the library and sharpens image Reduces physical processing Prompts joint print rationalisation

10. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 IReL - challenges Relies on external funding Ties up local funds Reduces flexibility Reduced meta-searchability Obscures the role of the library? Eclipses print information needs Reinforces the commercial publishing model Conflicts with Open Access philosophy?

11. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 IReL Open Initiative “Governments should increase access to findings from publicly funded research to maximise social returns on public investments”(OECD)[1][1] “Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded research [should be] made available and accessible for public use, interrogation, and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly and effectively as practicable. ” (Research Councils UK)[2][2] [1] http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/12/35393145.pdf [1] [2] RCUK position statement on access to research outputs. http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf[2]http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf

12. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 National environment HEA funded under Strategic Innovation Fund National Development Plan Research as critical to economic development National research profile

13. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Institutional environment Research as strategic to university planning Institutional research profiles Citation impact enhancement Research partnerships HEA Matching Funding

14. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Objectives Enhance the profile of Irish research Maximise the impact of Irish research Make research data available to Irish researchers Increase accountability of Irish universities Make publicly-funded research available publicly Provide means of archiving results

15. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Objectives 2 Provide free-to-user access to research results Add value to other components of the national information infrastructure – Expertiseireland, IReL Scalability Development

16. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 National portal Hosted by ExpertiseIreland Single point of access to national research output Harvested from University Research Repositories Includes published research across all disciplines Data sets

17. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 National portal Value added service –Preservation of electronic resources –Metadata standards –Maintenance standards –Enrichment of content Links to Research Support Systems Enhanced searching through full-text access Analysis of content/use/ Identification of research trends

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20. IReL-Open, Status Formal Opening April 2007 IUA IR Working Group IReL-Open Metadata and Harvesting Standard Licenses Local Implementation

21. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Some repository sites JISC United Kingdom –http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digital _repositories.aspxhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digital _repositories.aspx CARL, Canada –http://www.carl- abrc.ca/projects/institutional_repositories/member_resources- e.html DAREnet,Netherlands –http://www.darenet.nl/en/page/language.view/search.page Natl Inst Informatics, Japan –http://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/index-e.htmlhttp://www.nii.ac.jp/irp/index-e.html

22. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Open Access Factors Digital publishing technologies and networking drives demand for broader access to research and for more robust digital presentation. Increases in volume of research, especially in sciences, strains the print publishing model and exacerbates user dissatisfaction with the latency in print. Dissatisfaction with traditional print and electronic journal price and market models - become less relevant and more difficult to sustain with rapidly escalating prices and relatively flat library budgets. Uncertainty over the preservation & archiving of digital scholarly research material.

23. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Open Access and Subscription Model Research funders mandates – NIH OA mandate, requires researchers to deposit final papers funded by NIH in PubMed Central repository –OA Mandates – UK Research Councils, Agence nationale de la recherche, Canadian Inst Health, EU FP7, IRCSET, JISC, Research Foundation Flanders (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek), Swiss National Science Foundation 65 journals converted from TA to OA in 2007

24. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Open Access journals 65 journals converted from Toll Acess to OA in 2007 Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) reports 2,555 titles (+20% 2007) OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories), reports 1,017 repositories ( + 22% 2007) Number of records on deposit grew by 4,560,809, or 46%. On the journal side, the Directory of Open Access Journals reached the milestone of 3,000 titles, and SHERPA's RoMEO database documented more than 300 publisher policies on self-archiving..

25. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Journal Impact Factor

26. Robin Adams, IUA Librarians, 100108 Open Access v. Subscription Access OA Repositories provide a central component in reforming scholarly communication by stimulating innovation in a disaggregated publishing structure serve as tangible indicators of an institution’s quality, thus increasing its visibility, prestige, and public value. AAP - OA“undermines publishers' ability to exercise their copyrights in the published articles…threatens the intellectual freedom of authors, including their choice to seek publication in journals that may refuse to accept proposed articles that would be subject to the new mandate"