Lightning talk at OER13: Creating a Virtuous Circle

Nick Sheppard

Repository Developer, Leeds Metropolitan UniversityUKCoRR (Technical Officer)

n.e.sheppard@leedsmet.ac.uk

Blogs:http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/ http://ukcorr.org/activity/blog/

@mrnick @ukcorr

Libraries, OA research and OER: towards symbiosis?

• JISC Repositories Start-up (2007)• Prioritised set of needs • Broad range of material• Commercial solution (intraLibrary)• Multiple Application Profiles• Flexible organisational structure• Unicycle - phase 1 ukoer project (2009)• “Blended” repository

– http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/• Two publicly accessible collections

– Research (OA full text)– OER– Links between collections– ALPS Common Competency Map

• Developing research management infrastructure• Symplectic Elements

The Leeds Met repository

A New Open Landscape?

• Open Access to research• Finch report and role of (institutional) repositories• Gold vs Green (and CC licencing)• Research Data Management• Learning objects• Open Educational Resources (OER)• Role of academic libraries

• “outside in” vs “inside out” (Lorcan Dempsey)• Managing (and disseminating) “institutional assets”

• Open journal publishing• Open Journal System (OJS)• EPrints

• The lines are blurring• Is our software/infrastructure up to the job?

The roles of libraries and information professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) initiativesGema Bueno-de-la-Fuente, R. John Robertson, Stuart Boon. August 2012

We found a clear need to promote the role that libraries and librarians can play in OER initiatives, highlighting the expertise and competencies which libraries and librarians can offer. This active promotion is needed to build awareness among stakeholders about libraries and librarians potential contribution to the OER movement, but also, among libraries and librarians about their key role as OER advocates within and out-with their institutions.

http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2012/492

Integrating infrastructure(s)• Disseminate and discover• RSP Embedding Guide

– http://www.rsp.ac.uk/embeddingguide/ • Practical guide• Embedding research repositories • Institutional processes, systems, culture• Synced with HR database• Dynamic feeds to staff profiles

Two very different animals?Academic libraries/repositories historically: • Focus on access to research materials • Not closely involved with management

of teaching materials • Often in VLEs (when available digitally) • Library may not have access • Poorly integrated into users’ view of

library resources

• Digital objects• Quality assurance• Dissemination• Discovery (SEO)• Preservation• Metadata• Usage metrics• Attribution/citation• Copyright/licensing

Research Management infrastructure

Adapted from the Repositories Support Project

http://www.rsp.ac.uk/embeddingguide/introduction-to-the-guide-2/scenario-2/

CRIS/RMS

Repository

Discovery & link resolution: library catalogue

Bibliographic/bibliometric data from (commercial) databases

Copyright info from RoMEO

Other internal systems e.g. email

HR, Finance, Students, Estates

Researchers and administrators Other

repositories Funders’ systems e.g. Research councils

Researchers’ profiles, web pages

Publication reporting (internal, REF), business intelligence

Usage data

• Are you aware of examples of OER included on staff profiles at UK HEIs?• Bebob at the University of Lincoln

–  “the Bebop plugin has provided a way for staff to publish a curated list of their teaching resources, which can be displayed on their official Staff Directory profile”

• HumBox also incorporates nice user profiles (subject based)• EdShare?• Increasingly important for research staff to have online profile • Listing research outputs • Link to an accessible version of the full text (research data / other files?)• Why not OER? 

OER on staff profiles?

Symplectic Elements (or similar)

Database of Leeds Met research

All staff have account (synced daily with HR)

Link to repository (full text/data/OER)

API to feed data back out to www

Manual data entry

The Jorum API

Closing the institutional ukoer circle

Leeds Met Repository

• Parallels development of OA research aggregation• CORE (Connecting Repositories)

• http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/ • Ubiquitous CC licensing makes it easier

OAI-PMH

Open API

RepurposeRelicenceRedeposit

Local deposit into IR

http://libraryonline.leedsmet.ac.uk/pages/resources/for_your_subject/http://libraryonline.leedsmet.ac.uk/pages/resources/discover

ReferencesDiscovery vs discoverability ...Dempsey, L. (2013) Discovery vs discoverability .... Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog On libraries, services and networks, [blog] 2nd January, Available at: http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002206.html [Accessed: 21st March 2013].

Libraries, Institutions, and Open Educational Resources: possible connections?Robertson, J. (2010) Libraries, Institutions, and Open Educational Resources: possible connections?. John's JISC CETIS blog, [blog] 17 March, Available at: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/03/17/librariesandoers/ [Accessed: 25/03/2013].

Open Educational Resources and the University Library WebsiteHirst, T. (2009) Open Educational Resources and the University Library Website. OUseful.Info, the blog…, [blog] August 10, Available at: http://blog.ouseful.info/2009/08/10/open-educational-resources-and-the-university-library-website/ [Accessed: 25/03/2013].

BuddyPress, Bebop and building the staff directoryWinn, J. (2012) BuddyPress, Bebop and building the staff directory. BuddyPress OER Profiles: A JISC Funded Project, [blog] October 11, Available at: http://bebop.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2012/10/11/buddypress-bebop-and-building-the-staff-directory/ [Accessed: 25/03/2013].