Bill Hubbard

Centre for Research Communications

UKCoRR Can!

UKCoRR membership meetingKingston UniversityFriday 14th August 2009

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just before we start . . . where’s SHERPA?

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SHERPA Partnership

News - Information - Investigation

SHERPA Services

RoMEO - JULIET - OpenDOAR

JISC ResearchCommunications

StrategyStrategy Development - Feedback - Dissemination

SHERPA Projects

RSP - DRIVERII - Depot - Intute RS - NECOBELAC

National Partner DRIVER

Confederation

University OA Services

R & D

OA Research, Surveys, Projects

Centre for Research

Communications

Activity Structure

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Centre for Research Communications

UKCoRR -- where we have come from

• SHERPA – partners list

• SHERPA Plus– JISC support

• Identified a need and a role . . . • Website and email list• . . . getting going . . .

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Last meeting University of Nottingham, Friday 23rd November 2007

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. . . developments

• Bill Hubbard• Stephanie Meece• John Murtagh

• Talat Chaudhri• Miggie Pickton• Les Carr• . . . and others!

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Vision

• UKCoRR has a vision of the work of repository management as a professionally recognised and supported role within UK research institutions.

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Mission

• UKCoRR is an independent body for repository managers, administrators and staff in the UK that

• Promotes repository management as a recognised and respected profession

• Provides a forum for discussion and exchange of experience

• Represents the views and concerns of those who work with repositories in organisational, policy and strategic development

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UKCoRR -- where we are

• Moved beyond establishment - now at the start of real development

• Libraries are changing– RIN - Mind the Skills Gap

• Universities are changing• Research communication is changing• Funding is changing - private and especially

public• Repositories be called on for many solutions• . . . so we will be called on to provide them!

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National scene

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UK Map - Leeds Met as ship!

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International scene

• DRIVER - COAR• NECOBELAC• Australia• India• USA• Africa

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Boloka Map

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Africa• Boloka, the Repository of the North-West University, South

Africa - “Global”? Since November last year . . .

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Open Access Repositories

• Bring the world to your door• Services will come and grow and go or some

may become permanent . . . • But the repository remains . . .

• Service get the notice, but repositories are the key

• We must retain the ability to be simple - simple access, simple metadata - simply “open”

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What are our challenges?

• Copyright• Mandates - institutional and funders• Cultural change• Workflows• Management within institutions• Complex objects• Staffing levels• Integration - systems, staff, management• REF

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What do we do back in the office?

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What UKCoRR can do

• Peer support and networking• Identify needs

– support– training– information

• Identify good practice - and share it!• Act as a voice for you

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Centre for Research Communications

• Bill Hubbard• bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk