RJ Broker:

Automating Delivery of Research Output to Repositories

Muriel Mewissen – EDINAhttp://broker.edina.ac.uk

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Overview

• What is the broker• Early results• Levels of service• What the broker can do for your

institution

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Focus • To increase the number of deposits to UK repositories• To minimise effort by depositors and IR managers

Support Open Access & Funder mandates

Institutional Repo

Subject repo

Publishers

Author 2 / Representative

Funders

Publisher System

CRIS

CRIS

IR

Author/PI

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Broker

IR

IR

RJ Broker Function

RJ Broker provides a delivery service for research output:

1. Take in data (research articles)2. Use the metadata to identify recipients (repositories)3. Transfer the data (or a notification) 4. Provide a tracking ID5. Hold the data for collection

Global outlook with a UK focus

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RJ Broker Middleware Tool

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1. Accept deposit of research articles Bespoke format, SWORD, Eprints

2. Process the deposits into a common format bespoke RJ Broker format

3. Extract authors’ affiliation from metadata and use it to identify target repositories

Organisation and Repository Identification (ORI) http://ori.edina.ac.uk/

4. Transfer deposits to registered repositoriesSWORD, plugins (Eprints, DSpace, Fedora) 5. Provide tracking ID to content supplier

URIs 6. Notify repositories with relevant content

Monthly email7. Allow browsing, search and download

GUI & APIs (Eprints)

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Road to Service

Projects supported by Jisc:

1. Build tool2. ‘Real’ data trial – 20133. Beta service for early adopters – 20144. Service – from Aug 2015

Ongoing technical development & user recruitment and support

http://broker.edina.ac.uk

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Data Trials

February 2013 to July 2013

In

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Out

Europe PMC~84,000 metadata,unrestrictedrecords

Receiving,Processing,Storing,Identifying target IRs

RJ Broker(Dev)

Nature Publishing Group~300 full-textembargoed records

Routing,Sending to EPrints & DSpace IRs

RJ Broker(Dev)

ERA @ University of Edinburgh

Research @ University of St

Andrews

Spiral @ Imperial College

DSpace

OpenDepot.org

City Research Online @ City University

London

EPrints

Data Trials

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http://devel.edina.ac.uk:1203

Beta Service For Early Adopters

Recruiting NOW!

In

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Out

Europe PMC> 80,000metadata,unrestrictedrecords

Receiving,Processing,Storing,Identifying target IRs

RJ Broker

Europe PMCSOONFull-textunrestrictedrecords

Routing,Sending to EPrints & DSpace IRs

RJ Broker

Your IR

Your IR

DSpace

Your IR

Your IR

EPrints

RJ Broker Content in Numbers

Country – Institution – Supplier List • Dev: http://devel.edina.ac.uk:1203/stats/targets.html• Live: http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/test/broker2.html

Date – Supplier – Organisation – Repository Wheel• Dev: http://devel.edina.ac.uk:1203/stats/index.html

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Levels of Service

1. Browse• http://broker.edina.ac.uk/• Non restriction to OA content• By repository• By author

Check the content you could bring to your repository

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Levels of Service

2. Download• http://broker.edina.ac.uk/cgi/oai2• OAI-PMH APIs • By repository• By author• By funder• Supports several format• Non restriction to OA content

Bring content to your repository

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Levels of Service

3. Notification• Monthly email of citation list for a repository• By registration

• Select one of more repository• Provide email address

• Coming soon• http://devel.edina.ac.uk:1203/cgi/postcard_registration

Know when new content is available

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Levels of Service

4. OA Content Delivery • Direct delivery to your repository as soon as content

is received• By registration

• Provide SWORD credentials• Install an importer (available for EPrints 3.2 & 3.3 & DSpace

1.8.*)

• OA content • Metadata• Some full-text

• Register now!

Receive OA content directly in your repository

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Levels of Service

5. OA & embargoed Content Delivery • Direct delivery to your repository as soon as content is

received• By registration

• Provide SWORD credentials• Install an importer (available for EPrints 3.2 & 3.3)• Accept legal agreement

• OA & Embargo content • Metadata• Full-text

• Register now!

Receive ALL content directly in your repository

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Why join?

1. Effective solution to content dissemination• Increase number of deposit in IRs• Support OA (Gold & Green) • Support promotion of research output

2. Saves time & effort (money)• Reduce work needed to enter content in IR• Reduce keying errors

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Why join?

3. Help with reporting & compliance to mandates• Support for metadata & standards

RIOXX, ORCID, V4OA, NISO OA Metadata indicators, ISNI …

• Funder & grant codes, versions, embargoes

4. Europe PMC estimates ~160,000 records per month• Work on getting more content from publishers

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Why Join?

5. Future plans• More sources of content, publishers, etc• Support for more repository platforms & versions• Support for CRIS

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Thank You!

• Development team at EDINA

• Support from Jisc Repository Shared Services and other previous projects

• Trial participants: Nature Publishing Group, Wellcome Trust, Europe PMC, MIMAS & EBI, University of Edinburgh, MIT, University of St Andrews, City University London, and Imperial College.

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