UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Pulling Together the Threads Next Steps for Repositories Dr Paul Ayris Director...

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES

Pulling Together the Threads Next Steps for Repositories

Dr Paul Ayris

Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer

e-mail: [email protected]


Content

Scholarly Communication – New Definition New Developments – Gap Survey New Services - Overlay Journals New Tools - Digital Curation Conclusion


Scholarly Communication – New Definition



Scholarly Communication- what do we mean?

Scope of the term is wider than "scholarly publishing" and covers the authoring, publishing (in a broad sense), and reading of information produced by members of the academic community for teaching or research. "Information" in this context may be in a variety of formats. (CURL/SCONUL definition)

Stakeholders usually defined simply asAuthors + Publishers + Librarians + Readers

Other stakeholders not usually included in the debate This needs to change


Definition

Scholarly Communication encompasses everything that researchers, teachers and learners need in order to be effective – and this makes Repositories important

New definition The authoring, publishing, dissemination, and reading of

information produced for teaching, learning or research in whatever format,

with the tools, measures and systems needed to provide access to and store these materials in perpetuity

It is an inclusive definition – of both partners and processes


New Developments – Gap Survey



Gap Surveyof our understanding of journal publishing

Analysis of data on scholarly journals publishing Published under the auspices of the Research Information Network http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-scholarly-journals Research undertaken by EPS Ltd


New Services – Overlay Journals



RIOJA

RIOJA – funded by JISC Capital Programme (April 2006) Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives Academic-led project

UCL University of Cambridge University of Glasgow Imperial College London Cornell University


Deliverables

RIOJA tool to support automated interactions between journals and open access repositories

Demonstrator Journal in Astrophysics and Cosmology Using Cornell University's open source DPubS software Interfacing with and overlaid on the arXiv subject repository Content of the demonstrator journal will be test papers Submitted to and housed on the arXiv server Illustrate the use of the RIOJA tool to facilitate the overlay of peer

review onto repository content


And…

RIOJA Will explore social and economic aspects of building certification onto

repositories in support of the creation of overlay journals Carry out a survey of researchers from the field of Astrophysics and

Cosmology Aim to deliver a continuation plan for the demonstrator journal, founded on

a cost-recovery business model tested on the Astrophysics and Cosmology community

RIOJA has strong academic support Impetus for the RIOJA project comes directly from academic users of the

arXiv subject repository


New Tools – Digital Curation



LIFE – Preservation and Digital Curation Findings

LIFE has developed a Generic Preservation Model for costing digital curation at an item level

Preservation = Technology watch + Preservation frequency * Overall preservation action

Preservation = t * TEW + (t / ULE + PON) * (CRS + UME + PPA + QAA)

Worked out by look at BL’s VDEP, Web Archiving Project and UCL’s E-Journals service

Fits into formula for identifying whole lifecycle costs over time: LT=Aq+IT+MT+AcT+ST+PT

http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/archive/00001854/01/LifeProjMaster.pdf


Generic LIFE Preservation Model


Preservation Elements – Web Archiving Case Study


Suggested actual costs –Web Archiving Case Study


LIFE Phase 2

Has been funded by the JISC Will look at

Firming up the economic modelling in partnership with an academic economist

Will work up more Case Studies to test the modelsRepositories are two such Case StudiesLooking at the SHERPA-LEAP and SHERPA-DP

– http://www.sherpa-leap.ac.uk/

– http://ahds.ac.uk/sherpa-dp/


Conclusions

Scholarly Communication represents a revolution in the way researchers and students disseminate and use information

There are gaps in the knowledge base which hamper our ability to assess the impact and importance of new dissemination models

Overlay Journals represent an opportunity to marry Open Access Journals with Open Access Repositories

Digital Curation will ensure the long-term preservation of digital assets in Repositories, and the costs are becoming clearer

The most important asset is YOU, because YOU can effect change


And finally…

If you have been, thanks for listening

Happy to answer questions and hear comments

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