1. Open Access: Developing a National Information Strategy in Scotland Professor Derek Law Information Resources Directorate University of Strathclyde

2. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 2 May 12-13 2005 Scottish traits  Reverence for education  Socialist – belief in community  Careful with money – leveraging the agenda means someone else pays!!  It’s better to be approximately right than precisely wrong  Anti-establishment  8% of UK population but 25% of the noise  Small is beautiful – 15 universities

3. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 3 May 12-13 2005 [Scottish] Government Agendas  Knowledge economy – inward investment  Economic development – relies on research  Lifelong learning – access to information  Smart Successful Scotland  Social inclusion and universal access  Falling population - Fresh Talent  Digital Scotland as a delivery vehicle  Seamless access to information

4. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 4 May 12-13 2005 Research Funding in Scotland Source: Universities Scotland  wins 12% of the total UK funding council resources for research  wins 12% of the research councils' resources for research  wins 13% of government research departments' resources for research  wins 12% of the EU research resources spent in the UK.  has 16% of all UK departments rated in the top three RAE categories  has 12.5% of all 5 and 5** - rated departments in the UK  has 12.1% of UK research active staff submitted to the 2001 RAE

5. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 5 May 12-13 2005 Open Access – Why government is interested  Veneration of education: Scottish education/universities seen as distinctive  Widening Access to publicly funded research  Pooled research – not competition seeking world class excellence  Economic Opportunity and inward investment  Best Value – modernising, 21 st C, efficient government  Social Inclusion – opportunities for all  Quality kite mark for Scottish Research Community  Scotland the Brand – leaders in the global knowledge economy

6. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 6 May 12-13 2005 Open Access – Why government is interested  Inward Investment: to ensure that information seekers can easily access Scottish Research  Public access to publicly funded research: potential impact of Freedom of Information legislation  Not just science but health, enterprise, culture, government, environment…  Institutional Repositories, with the right metadata, will create a quality resource to market Scottish Research NB we WANT free riders. This gives visibility, equity and pooling  Two cabinet ministers are former convenors of SLIC

7. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 7 May 12-13 2005 Institutional repository – Why Institutions are interested  Repurposing of information Research Assessment Exercise Annual Staff Review Scottish Research Directory  Influencing league tables Citation based  Linkage to other research data Research Applications Internal peer review Interdisciplinary boundary blurring  e.g. knowledge management  Commercialisation/ Patents  Covers ALL Research outputs

8. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 8 May 12-13 2005 The Fun Part: what goes into the repository? Not just text  Peer Reviewed journal articles  Peer reviewed conference papers  Peer reviewed presentations  Peer reviewed poster sessions  Theses  Books  Book chapters  Music, film, statues, jewellery…….

9. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 9 May 12-13 2005 Quality assurance  The obsessions of science  Scientists are a minority  Not all disciplines publish in peer reviewed journals  The key is the norms in the discipline not the paranoia of scientists  Mediaeval history is not like chemistry – thank the Lord!!!!

10. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 10 May 12-13 2005 Why libraries SHOULD be interested  Requires classic library skills from classification to access  It will happen, so we can do it well - or watch computer scientists do it badly  Ensures the professional future when everything is googled  “Less visible but more involved” [Leo Waaijers]

11. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 11 May 12-13 2005 Open Access – the origins  Scottish Consortium of University Research Libraries (SCURL) has existed for a decade  Minister for Science appointed 2002 Strategy developed 20% increase in science funding  Scottish Science Information Strategy Working Group  3 sub groups National Licensing Science Portal Open Access  Information Scotland Event, November 2003

12. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 12 May 12-13 2005 The Timetable  SLIC (Scottish Library and Information Council) becomes involved  Development of the Scottish Open Access Declaration  SLIC Convener gets a post in Cabinet  11 th October 2004 Open Access Event  The Declaration is adopted at the Royal Society of Edinburgh

13. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 13 May 12-13 2005 The declaration “The timely, universal and organised dissemination of advances in scientific and public policy research is fundamental to the proper operation of a modern society, in terms of community awareness and empowerment, economic advance, and optimal functioning of health, education and other vital services. For Scotland, this means not only gaining access to the fruits of research from throughout the world but also exposing the endeavours of our researchers as widely as possible to the world at large. “ http://scurl.ac.uk/WG/OATS/OAprojects.htm

14. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 14 May 12-13 2005 Open Access – The Story since 11 th October 2004  All 15 HE Institutions have signed up.  SLIC has declared that this is an intrinsic element of its own Innovation and Development programme.  [Scottish] Funding Councils are supportive of this approach.  Bids for national structures encouraged and now funded  A national programme of work under way  A distributed not a single repository preserves institutional autonomy

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16. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 16 May 12-13 2005  Overarching OATS Programme co-ordinating implementation  DAEDALUS - http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/daedalus/http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/daedalus/  Electronic Theses - http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/library/e-theses.htmhttp://www2.rgu.ac.uk/library/e-theses.htm  HaIRST - http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/  Theses Alive! - http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/  OAISIS (The OAI Scotland Information Service) - http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/oaisis/ http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/oaisis/

17. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 17 May 12-13 2005 Open Access – Next steps  Establish a national network of institutional repositories, which meet interoperable metadata standards, to ensure effective and efficient retrieval of information  Establish one or more shared repositories for small research and other institutes through the National Library  Continue to lobby Scottish Executive to offer its support and ensure that publicly funded research has to be published for the wider public good.  Using the RAE and RCUK declaration as tools for mandating deposit  Most repositories exist, but now require populating

18. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 18 May 12-13 2005 IRiS: Institutional Repositories In Scotland  €400,000 over two years  Five strands Cultural and organisational change A toolkit to encourage standardisation A cross repository search and browse service A national repository for smaller organisations hosted by national library Preservation - or do publishers have grandmothers?

19. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 19 May 12-13 2005 Conclusions  Small countries can organise better  It is easy to demonstrate that this is not an esoteric academic argument but a key mechanism for delivering a range of government policies  It is not expensive Why else would the Scots and the Dutch do it?  It is essental to use international standards OAI-PMH  There is room for a European linking initiative  But let me tell you a story…..

20. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 20 May 12-13 2005 The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 After the death of William Wallace but before the death of Mel Gibson Scotland and Portugal have one thing in common…… [England]

21. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 21 May 12-13 2005 The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 “For so long as one hundred of us remain alive, we will yield in no least way to English Dominion. It is not for glory nor riches, nor honours that we fight, but only and alone we fight for freedom, which no good man surrenders save with his life."

22. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 22 May 12-13 2005 Cracking the [Da Vinci] Code  Declaration of Arbroath signed in 1320 at Arbroath Abbey  The most famous remaining part of the ruin is the destroyed rose window  It is called the round “O”

23. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 23 May 12-13 2005 Cracking the Code  The Round O  Open Access  The version of the Declaration of Independence we have is a pre-print  From Mel Gibson to Stevan Harnad, what we really wanted to say……

24. Openaccess Conference, University of Minho 24 May 12-13 2005 What we really wanted to say….. “For so long as one hundred of us are left alive, we will yield in no least way to Elsevier dominion. It is not for glory nor riches, nor honours that we fight, but only and alone we fight for freedom to deposit, which no good researcher surrenders save with his life."