The SHERPA Project

Bill Hubbard

SHERPA Project Manager

University of Nottingham

SHERPA aims and outcomes

Establish institutionally-based eprint repositories 7 Partners plus 7 Associate Partners

– actually 21 partner institutions, plus affiliates

Experience– in consortia, maintainance, population

Advice– technical, organisational, IPR, preservation

Advocacy– strategies, events, materials

SHERPA - practical outcomes

establishing an archive populating an archive copyright advocacy & changing working habits mounting material maintenance preservation concerns . . .

SHERPA partners & repositories

Birkbeck Birmingham Bristol British Library Cambridge Durham Edinburgh

Glasgow Imperial Leeds LSE Kings College Newcastle Nottingham

Oxford Royal Holloway Sheffield SOAS UCL York AHDS

National development

Research-led universities adopting research repositories– extension with eTheses, data-sets, multimedia, etc

Policy development – from research funders; institutions; departments– level playing field needed for policies to operate effectively

National perspective – of repositories, repository holdings – for search and analysis of contents– for UK research on the global stage

1994 Group

University of Bath University of Durham University of East Anglia University of Essex University of Surrey University of Exeter Lancaster University Birkbeck University of London

Goldsmiths LSE Royal Holloway University of Reading University of St Andrews University of Sussex University of Warwick University of York

over 50% operational repositories

. . . more on the way . . .

Russell Group

University of Birmingham University of Bristol University of Cambridge Cardiff University University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow Imperial College King's College London University of Leeds University of Liverpool

LSE University of Manchester University of Newcastle University of Nottingham University of Oxford University of Sheffield University of Southampton University of Warwick University College London

16 out of 19 operational . . . 100% on the way . . .

SHERPA Plus

2 year project to July 2007, for national support advocacy strategies and material for the further

population of existing repositories resources, information and advice for all institutions

wanting to establish repositories support for repository-level, institutional and national

policy development review and analysis of extending repository holdings

with datasets, multimedia, grey literature, learning objects and other content types

SHERPA Plus

RepositoryDevelopment

Support

Advocacy

Resources

PopulationExtension

Establishment

Policies

Strategies

Analysis Information

Representation

OpenDOAR

18 month project to August 2006 survey of Open Access Repositories registry of Open Access Repositories for third party service providers . . . for end users . . .

metadata harvestingby Service Providers

harvesting

research

researcher

?

metadata harvestingby Service Providers

harvesting

selective harvesting

selective harvesting

OpenDOAR eg - UK repositories

or - biology archives

enhanced harvesting

enhanced harvesting

OpenDOAR

eg - learned society

eg - biology archives

SHERPA DP

2 year project to December 2006 use OAIS model to develop a persistent preservation

environment for SHERPA explore use of METS as metadata framework protocols for a working preservation service extend the storage layer of repository software with

open Source extensions “Digital Preservation User Guide”

SHERPA/RoMEO

continuing project & under development . . . www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Futures . . . issues

Population Extension Establishment National infrastructure Search Policy development Publishing futures Emergence of services and users

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk

bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk