1. University of Bergen Library Electronic publishing Bergen – Makerere visit February 2005

2. Agenda Institutional repositories The Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) Introduction to Dspace, the software Uganda Science Digital Library Q&A Collaboration Programme between University of Bergen and Makerere University

3. Institutional Repository Institution-based Scholarly material in digital formats Cumulative and perpetual Open source and interoperable Potentially new publishing models Provides faculty with long-term storage of research data and publications Collaboration Programme between University of Bergen and Makerere University

4. Benefits The institutions research freely available in one database on the internet for everyone to access Maximise the visibility and impact of research for individual researchers and their fellows Uniform Resource Identifiers are given to each document Searchability through Google, and Union Catalogues Maximise the access to research at other institutions [who follow suit]

5. Copyright issues When authors publish articles in peer reviewed magazines they have to give up their copyright 91% of academic publishers allow self-archiving of research papers in institutional repositories The Sherpa project The Romeo copyright overview

6. 60% 62 69%6133 Postprint +6% (=66%)6+22% (=91%)1975 Preprint 34%359%754 Neither yet (100%)103(100%)8862 % Publishers % Journals Green light to self-archive: Kilde: Stevan Harnad, PowerPoint Presentation - Self-archiving Illustration

7. Why Libraries? Expertise –Large-scale collection management Collection policies Preservation –Metadata –Solid business practices Commitment –Long time frames –Fits with Libraries’ mission

8. Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) Main goals: –Enabling secure digital long term storage of research from the University of Bergen –Make this research freely available on the internet Working group: University library + ITdept. Established cooperation with University of Glasgow Pilot projects

9. BORA – further development ● Two databases ● BORA – containing peer review material, dissertations and masters theses ● The exam archive – containing phd-dissertations, masters theses (complete collection) ● And possibly a third database – containing series, reports, out of print monographies etc. All of these made available by using DSpace

10. What is DSpace? Software for institutional repostiories Captures –Digital research material in any format –Directly from creators or other fascilitators –Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage Distributes via the internet Preserves –Bitstream guaranteed –A few supported formats where we guarantee longterm usability (pdf)

11. Information Model Communities –Research units of the organization Collections (in communities) –Distinct groupings of like items Items (in collections) –Logical content objects –Receive persistent identifier Bitstreams (in items) –Individual files –Receive preservation treatment

12. Possible DSpace Content Articles –Preprints, e-prints Technical Reports Working Papers Conference Papers E-theses Audio/Video Datasets –Statistical, geospatial Images –Visual, scientific Teaching material –Lecture notes, visualizations, simulations Digitized library collections

13. Easy to Use Easy to add content Easy to create permanent identifiers for your content browse and search content

14. Uganda Science Digital Library (USDL) Pilot project –Digitization select information sources to digitize learn to use scanner and software –USDL assess copyright issues document formats train project employees in using DSpace start use...

15. USDL – building the Communities Assess what a department has published Check copyright Set up the Community Add content Use metadata (keywords, descriptions) to aid search and retrieval Update community’s content with new research

16. Q&A