BMC Open Access Colloquium, 8 February 2007 1 Morgan: "Open Access Repositories"

BMC Open Access Colloquium, 8 February 20071Morgan: "Open Access Repositories

" BMC Open Access Colloquium, 8 February 2007 1Morgan: "Open Access Repositories"

An overview of open access repositories

Peter MorganLibrarian, Cambridge University Medical Library

& formerly Project Director, DSpace@Cambridge

BioMed Central Colloquium

Thursday 8th February 2007, The Royal College of Physicians, London, UK


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Budapest Open Access Initiative(2002)

"To achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, we recommend two complementary strategies.

I. Self-Archiving: First, scholars need the tools and assistance to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives, a practice commonly called, self-archiving. When these archives conform to standards created by the Open Archives Initiative, then search engines and other tools can treat the separate archives as one.

II. Open-access Journals: Second, scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access… "


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Berlin Declaration (Oct 2003)

"Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions:

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2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving."


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Early days of repositories

origins in academics' desire to disseminate papers

early archives subject-based – e.g. arXiv (physics, 1991-), RePEc (economics, 1993-),

CogPrints (cognitive science, 1997-)

Open Archives Initiative – interoperable metadata harvesting standard (OAI-PMH)

development of OAI-compliant Open Source repository software platforms

concept of institutional repositories emerged


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Technology platforms

Open Source– e.g. Eprints (Southampton, 2000), DSpace (MIT, 2002),

Fedora (Cornell/Virginia, 2003)– local customisation– international community development– software “free” but hidden development costs

proprietary– e.g. bepress (Berkeley), Digitools (Ex Libris)– dependence on commercial vendor– loss of local control/flexibility– costs more explicit

hybrid– e.g. BMC Open Repository (commercial hosted DSpace

service)


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Progress to date

Directory of Open Access Repositories, a.k.a.“OpenDOAR” (www.opendoar.org) at 26/1/07:

838 registered repositories in 44 countries 67 contain "Health & Medicine" collections USA: 250 repositories Europe: 410 repositories in 23 countries UK: 93 repositories

73 @ ac.uk 20 other

(.org, .com, .gov, .net, .bl.uk., .nhs.uk, .eu)


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Four key repository functions

submission– self-archiving by author, or mediated deposit

indexing – each object is assigned metadata (descriptive,

technical, administrative)

dissemination – content is identifiable and retrievable via OAI-

PMH and a range of search engines

preservation – content remains usable over time (file

migration, persistent identifiers)


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Organisational policy questions

institutional (e.g. university) or subject (e.g. UK PubMed Central)?

types of content (papers, theses, images, data, etc.?)

types of activity? (research, teaching, admin?) file formats? (exclusions? single/complex?) quality control? (metadata? suitability?) storage capacity? (rationing? scalability?) who owns/manages IPR? (©, , RoMEO) mandated or voluntary deposit? open or closed access? (embargo? Open Data?)


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Thank you

Peter Morgan<[email protected]>

01223 336757

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BMC Open Access Colloquium, 8 February 2007 1 Morgan: "Open Access Repositories"