RCAAP: Scientific Open Access Repository of Portugal: Introduction

RCAAP: Portuguese Open Access Scientific Repository

5th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar

João Mendes MoreiraRCAAP Project Manager, FCCN

jmm@fccn.pt

1. Background2. Services3. Stats4. Future Work5. Critical success

factors

RCAAP Project• Promote visibility and accessibility to the

Portuguese scientific output• Improve access to information about national

scientific output• Integrate Portugal into international Initiatives

Goals

• UMIC – Knowledge Society Agency (Political support and funding)

• POSC (funding agency)• FCCN (General and Infrastructures Coordination)• UMinho (Scientific and Technical Coordination)

Governance

• RCAAP Portal and Directory• SARI – IR’s in SaaS regime• Blimunda - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving• Communication, awareness, training• Advocacy and Networking

Services

Retrospective

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Studies andGuidelines

Dissimination

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Type #Univ 18Polit 6Hosp 4LAB 3

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RCAAP Portal

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SARI – IR’s (SaaS)

Service highlights

• Target (R&D)• Free• Ruled by a

contract• Based on

SaaS model

Team Responsibilities

• Housing (N-REN Datacenter)

• Infrastructures management

• Software conf & manag

• Training• Helpdesk and support

Institutions rights

• 1 TB Host capacity

• Own look and fee

• RCAAP portal Indexing

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Integration - B-On - National Consortium

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Integration – DeGóis - CRIS

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Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

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http://http://sites.google.com/site/projectoblimunda/

Blimunda Project

Activities

1. Registration of Portuguese journals (12?/25?)

2. SHERPA-ROMEO Portuguese version

FCCN Signed MoU with SHERPA-ROMEO

Serviços - Disseminação

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Disseminação e comunicação Web 2.0

●Blog – http://blog.rcaap.pt ●Twitter – www.twitter.com/rcaap●Facebook – www.facebook.com/rcaap ●Website Projecto http://projecto.rcaap.pt

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Sensibilização e Divulgação

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Relevant deliverables● State of the Art Report on Open Access in

Portugal● Open Access Policies Kit● State of the Art Report on Scientific Data

Repositories

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Work on Progress• Partnership with Brasil• PT-BR Portal (IR, Journals, T&D)• PT-BR Directory (IR, Journals)• Conference (1st Portuguese-Brasilian)

• Integration with OpenAIRE – European Repository

• Scientific Data Repositories• OpenAccess website + RCAAP website

refurbishing + e-learning modules + Statistics Module

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1. Background2. Services3. Stats4. Future Work5. Critical success

factors

IRs evolution

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Evolução Repositórios

Documents evolution

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41 PostsMax 584 visits March/2010

RCAAP Portal usage

Policies and OA Mandates in PortugalInstituição Ano

Universidade do Minho 2005ISCTE 2007Universidade do Porto 2008Universidade Aberta 2010Instituto Politécnico de Bragança 2010

Universidade de Coimbra 2010

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Future Work

●Scientific Data Repositories●Portuguese Scientific journals in SaaS●Digital preservation

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1. Background2. Services3. Stats4. Future Work5. Critical success

factors

Critical Success Factors• Global Approach (advocacy, collaboration, partnerships,

training and dissemination, support, services and infrastructures)• Governance Model

• Commitment at all levels (political, funding, operational)

• Based on centers of expertise (coordination, infrastructures, Services, etc) and Trustable Players

• Service Model• Free institutions to focus on core activities• Economies of Scale (Level of service, Rapid deployment)

• Institution members participation03-05-2023 26RCAAP - Repositório Cientifico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal

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Thanks

João Mendes Moreirajmm@fccn.pt