Open access & visibility

Management

Digital Preservation

ORA: Purposes

• Conference items: Papers; Posters; Presentations• Articles: Including supplementary material and extended

versions; No page limit • Books and book sections and chapters; Out of print• Working and discussion papers• Reports and technical reports• Questionnaires• Pre-prints• Audio files; Images and diagrams • Research theses• [Datasets]

ORA is designed to hold any type of item produced as a result of academic research

Usage stats

• Open access • Increased readership (and citations)• Easy sharing with colleagues• Speed of publication• Interoperability with other systems eg SOLO• Usage statistics• Google• Open search and Embed search by author, dept etc as required,

RSS feeds• Unique identifiers & Persistent links• Immediate deposit/optional access (preservation & visibility)• Research materials stored in a single location (shop window)• University Press Office

Research data• ORA: for storing or referencing data• DataBank Proof of concept as Oxford data store and access provider• Linking data and publications

• Funding agency requirements (full text and possibly data) – Eg AHRC (see summary at

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php)• List/search by author/research group/department

– as required• Embed search by author, dept etc as required• All types of research materials• Multiple versions if required• Relate items to each other• Research materials stored in a single location

• Contact with REF system developers

• Harvest data from REF system (data obtained from PMC, WoS etc)

• ORA for full text

• ORA as the means to create automatically updated lists of publications on web pages

• REF system for REF reporting

No downloads

For use eg with sensitive materials, copyright

Content can be preserved in ‘dark archive’

Can be included in full list of publications

Included in Google search – visibility

Links to published version

Record only

Detailed search

Grouped results

RSS feed

URL of search

Conference ‘event’ in ORAWith papers listed

Papers related to event

Formally published itemsEg Books, journal articles

Author signs ‘Transfer of copyright’ (see Author choices)

Articles: many publishers permit a version to be

made available in ORAhttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

‘Unpublished’ materialEg most conference papers,

posters, reports etc

Copyright usually remains with author

Third party copyrightCan affect all items

Tends to affect images, maps, diagrams etc

Permission to make materialfreely available on the Internet

Author choices

• Transfer copyright (CTA)

• Retain copyright

• Licence to publish

• Alternative wording for CTA

Help: www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ora Or contact ORA@ouls.ox.ac.uk

BRII (Building the Research Information Infrastructure)• University ‘Blue Pages’• Themed website• Data for ORA item records

Interoperability with other systems: SOLO, Symplectic, geospatial data

Semantic web technologies – forward looking, enables flexibility and machine-readable data and context

EasyWeb form

Standard[Quick]Email

BulkBulk upload

of data (where a source

exists)

New items Legacy items

* Symplectic and future plans…

• Digital preservation• High visibility…citations, impact• Open access• Persistent links• Unique identifiers • All item types – published or unpublished• Supplementary material• Articles at any length ie no page limit• Semantic web technologies – relationships • Research in a single location• RSS feeds• Funding agency requirements• Easy deposit

Roadmap includes (informed by focus groups):• Importing content from other sources• Creating author profiles• Exporting data to EndNote• Search and web interface development • Filter search (publication date; has full text etc)• Reports (how author’s work was discovered)• Easier item deposit (cf BRII project)• Generating reports – to be investigated to find out user

requirements• Increased storage• Statistics: web usage and tracking• Projects eg BRII

Research data• Linking data and publications• ORA: for storing or referencing data (and DataBank)• DataBank pilot as Oxford data store and access provider for

research data