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SHERPA

Securing a hybrid environment for research preservation and access

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SHERPA

Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee

Additional funding from CURL (Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles)

Hosted by the University of Nottingham

Part of the JISC FAIR Programme (Focus on Access to Institutional Resources)

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SHERPA

The SHERPA project aims to:

• set up institutional open access e-print repositories in 20 partner institutions which comply with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI PMH) primarily using eprints.org software

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SHERPA

•investigate key issues in creating, populating and maintaining e-print

collections, including:

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) e.g. RoMEO

quality controlcollection development policiesbusiness modelsscholarly communication culturesinstitutional strategies

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SHERPA

• work with OAI Service Providers to achieve acceptable standards (technical, metadata and collection management) for the effective dissemination of the content

• investigate digital preservation of e-prints using the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model

• disseminate lessons learned and provide advice to others wishing to set up similar services

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SHERPA

Development partners:

University of Edinburgh

University of Glasgow

University of Oxford

White Rose partnership (University of Sheffield, University of Leeds, University of York)

University of Nottingham

AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service)

British Library

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SHERPA

Associate partners

University of Birmingham

University of Bristol

University of Cambridge

University of Durham

University of Newcastle

London LEAP

Birkbeck College

Imperial College

Kings College

LSE

Royal Holloway

SOAS

UCL

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SHERPA

The British Library SHERPA repository will include research by:

BL staff

BL users (arts and humanities) with no institutional affiliation

plus

papers of conferences organised or hosted by the Library

It will also aim to host papers from small institutions/societies e.g. Arts Council England

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SHERPA

The BL SHERPA repository will

• capture and preserve research which otherwise might be lost

• provide a showcase for the research work of BL staff (and link to the Research Register)

• make it freely available to the worldwide scholarly community

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SHERPA http://www.sherpa.ac.uk

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SHERPA http://sherpa.bl.uk

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SHERPA

Eprints

can be “pre-prints’ or “post-prints”

book chapters

conference papers

working papers

technical reports

Papers can be submitted through the online registration form

PDF format preferable but non pdf formats will be converted

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SHERPA projects RoMEO (Rights Metadata for Open archiving)

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RoMEo

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RoMEo

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RoMEO

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SHERPA projects

SHERPA Digital Preservation – SHERPA DP

• funding to extend and expand the preservation strand of SHERPA

SHERPA DP aims to:

• create a collaborative, shared preservation environment for the SHERPA institutional repositories project, framed around the Open Archiving Information Systems (OAIS) Reference Model.

• to bring together the SHERPA institutional repository systems with the preservation repository established by the AHDS to create an environment that addresses all the requirements of the different phases within the life cycle of digital information

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SHERPA DP

• will remove from each individual institutional repository the burden of adding a preservation layer to their repository

• will investigate the business case for this model and seek to establish an economic cost model that could be used to ensure its long-term sustainability

• will bring together the SHERPA institutional repository systems with the preservation repository established by the AHDS to create an environment that addresses all the requirements of the different phases within the life cycle of digital information

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SHERPA projects

EThOS – eTheses Project

• will deliver (over 18 months) a prototype UK e-theses online service

• will enable end-users to access the full text of elctronically stored theses from a UK Database of Theses (UKDoT) via one single web interface

• will enable Higer Education institutions, in partnership with the British Library, to ensure a higher level of national and international visibility for the UK postgraduate research output, as well as its preservation in perpetuity

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SHERPA

SHERPA is a partner in

DOAR – The Directory of Open Access Repositories

• Joint collaboration between the University of Nottingham and the University of Lund

• Will categorise and list the wide variety of Open Access research archives that have grown up around the world

• Will provide a comprehensive and authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories, as well as archives set up by funding agencies

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SHERPA proposals

SHERPA has submitted 3 proposals under the JISC Call 03/05

SHERPA Plus• To look at advocacy strategies and materials,

new institutional repositories and expanding content types (e.g. grey literature)

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SHERPA proposals

SUBSET

• To develop a federated search service building on eprints UK

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SHERPA proposals

PROSPER

• To promote institutional repository development and create a limited lifespan holding repository for academics whose institutions have not yet created an IR

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SHERPA

BL SHERPA team

Stephen Bury: Project officer

Carole Holden: content acquisition and selection

Adam Farquhar: EiS

Jan Ashton: metadata

Adrian Arthur: web services