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Repositories, Learned Societies
and Research Funders
Stephen Pinfield
University of Nottingham
Outline
Repositories:
 What they are
 What they do
 What they don’t do
 What they should do
 What they might do
What repositories are
Screen shot arxiv
Screen shot DSpace@MIT
Repositories
 Subject / institutional
 Open access / restricted access
 E-prints / other digital content
‘Open archives’
 Open access
– free, unrestricted, immediate availability of
full content (and unrestricted re-use)
 Interoperable
– Open Archives Initiative Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting (OAI PMH)
OAI Protocol: key concepts
Service
Provider
End User
Harvester
Data
Providers
Publication & self-archiving
Author writes paper
Author submits paper to journal
pre-print
Editor and referees review paper
Author self-archives
paper in e-print
repository
Author revises paper
Author submits final version
Publisher copy edits and formats paper
Paper published in journal
What repositories do
What repositories do
 Provide (open) access to content
– to research community
– to other stakeholders: health professionals, industry, media etc.
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Accelerate dissemination
Store and manage content
Preserve content
Complement journals
– provide copies of papers
– provide services
 Act as shop window for institution/organisation
 Expose content/metadata for harvesting
OAI Service Providers
What repositories plus Service
Providers do
 Search – retrieve
 Value-added services
right now
What repositories don’t do
Repositories DON’T…
 Provide peer review
 Provide journal ‘brand’
 Provide the article of record
 Replace journals
 Cost a lot!
What repositories should do
RCUK
The June 2006 updated statement:
 Reaffirms the principle that publiclyfunded research should be publicly
available
 Devolves responsibility to individual
research councils
 Initiates further consultation and
research
Research Councils
 OA mandate: BBSRC, ESRC, MRC
 OA encouraged: CCLRC
 Policy to be released soon: AHRC, NERC
 No OA policy: EPSRC, PPARC
Wellcome
 Open access mandate
 Deposit in (UK)PMC
 Fund OA charges
 Publisher agreements
 ‘Open’ licence agreements
 Deposit of article of record
What repositories might do
What repositories might do (1)
 More value-added services
– search
– citation analysis/metrics
– plagiarism detection
– text/data mining
 Create publishing efficiencies
What repositories might do (2)
 Deconstructing the journal
– content distribution
– quality control
 ‘Overlay journals’
 Quality
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pre-publication screening
pre-publication peer review
post-publication metrics
post-publication dialogue
Role of Learned Societies?
 Journal publishers – new business
models
 Data providers
 Service providers
 Quality control/measurement services
 Overlay journal providers
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