DAEDALUS Project: Building Institutional Repositories for Glasgow

William J NixonService Development

Morag MackieAdvocacy

DAEDALUS Project

• Part of JISC FAIR Programme• Funded until July 2005• Aim is to build a collection of institutional

repositories at the University of Glasgow• Core strategic aim for GUL: project aims to

become a fully functioning service• Two strands

– Advocacy– Service Development

What are institutional repositories?

Freely accessible online databases providing access to the full text of research material produced by members of an institution.

Digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communities.

Background Issues

• Journal price inflation – severe pressure on library budgets – cancellations

• ‘Scholarly communications crisis’• Led to call for publicly funded research to be

freely available to all (open access)• Institutional repositories (online collections of

an institution’s research output) are one way of doing this

Repositories: Benefits for authors

• Maximise the visibility and impact of your research output

• Increased access to research worldwide

• Maximise the visibility of the collective research of the University

• A reliable alternative to mounting publications on personal web sites

Range of repositories

• Published peer-reviewed papers

• Pre-prints, grey literature, technical reports, working papers

• Theses

• Administrative Documents

Worldwide developments

• Number of other FAIR projects in the UK

• Cambridge/MIT DSpace collaboration

• DARE (Netherlands)

• Australian universities

• Other repositories being developed worldwide

Open access developments

• Berlin Declaration

• Wellcome Trust Statement supporting open access

• UK Parliamentary Inquiry

Copyright Concerns

• An increasing number of publishers now permit electronic copies of papers to be deposited in institutional repositories.

• Project staff can establish whether or not papers can be deposited.

• Many publishers now offer a ‘licence to publish’ which may offer you as an author more rights regarding what you can do with your work.

Open Access Journals

• Not the same as institutional repositories• Freely available journals• Peer-reviewed• Allow authors to retain copyright• May ask for authors (institutions/funding

bodies) to pay for publication rather than charging for access

• Complementary to institutional repositories - provide the peer review element that institutional repositories lack

Pre-prints, Grey Literature etc.

• Publications produced by departments• Also unpublished conference papers,

pre-prints etc.• Software enables departments to

administer their own content (if appropriate)

• Helps make material available that is currently not always easily accessible

Theses

• Staff and students generally very keen on electronic theses

• Working with relevant University staff to change regulations relating to thesis submission

• Voluntary electronic submission initially• Issues relating to authenticity, third party

copyright, associated multimedia etc.

Submission of content

Different routes:

• Import from a database such as Reference Manager or EndNote

• Individual submission via the mediated service

• Self-submission using the online form (registration required)

How you can participate

• Decide as a Centre to make your publications available via the DAEDALUS repositories

• Contribute content as an individual

• Talk to colleagues about the work of the project and the open access movement in general

DAEDALUS Projectm.mackie@lib.gla.ac.ukw.j.nixon@lib.gla.ac.uk

http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus

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