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Open Access: its contribution to developing a National Information Strategy
Elaine FultonDirector
Scottish Library and Information Council
e.fulton@slainte.org.uk
Website: http://www.slainte.org.uk
Scottish Library and Information Council 2004
Scottish Library and Information Council
Advisory body Government and members Advocacy and promotion Standards
Current Activity ICT development in libraries,
Interoperability, Standards schools, FE, public, Cultural Commission, Content Creation, Cultural Portal, Reader Development, Prison libraries, 21stC govt, consultancy support to members…..
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Enabling Seamless Access : call for a National Information Strategy
Knowledge Skills Creativity Building democratic intellect-
citizenship Health Impact of ICT on individuals and
communities NGFL, People
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Current Landscape
Knowledge economy World Summit on Information Society Economic development e-government Lifelong learning Seamless access to information Smart Successful Scotland - Digital Scotland and
its various guises Social inclusion and Universal access Falling population
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Research Funding in ScotlandSource: Univerisities Scotland
wins 12 per cent of the total UK funding council resources for research.
wins 12 per cent of the research councils' resources for research.
wins 13 per cent of government research departments' resources for research.
wins 12 per cent of the EU research resources spent in the UK.
has 16 per cent of all UK departments rated in the top three RAE categories.
has 12.5 per cent of all 5 and 5** - rated departments in the UK.
has 12.1 per cent of UK research active staff submitted to the 2001 RAE.
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Open Access – Why?
Widening Access Economic Opportunity – Scottish
Enterprise, SME’s Former students? Best Value – modernising, 21stC, efficient Help secure Higher Education Inclusive Quality kite mark for Scottish Research
Community Scotland the Brand – leaders in the global
knowledge economy
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Open Access – Why?
Securing the Digital Future OCLC Report. Five Year Information Format
Trends, March 2004 Rightly or wrongly, in the information seekers
start with the web. Information seekers have increased
expectations – Martini principle Availability v format
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Open Access – Why?
How do we ensure that these information seekers can easily access Scottish Research?
Any impact of Freedom of Information legislation
Not just science but health, Enterprise, culture, government, environment…
Open Access Repositories, with the right metadata, will create a quality resource to market Scottish Research
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Open Access – Next steps
Sign up to declaration. SLIC will be ensuring that this is an intrinsic element of its own Innovation and Development programme.
Encourage Funding Councils to adopt similar approach
Establish institutional or shared repositories, which meet interoperable metadata standards, to ensure effective and efficient retrieval of information
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Open Access – Next steps
Encourage researchers to at least publish a Executive summary and deposit this
Lobby Scottish Executive to offer its support and ensure that publicly funded research has to be published for the wider public good.
Could Scotland be the first to have a nationally agreed policy on Open Access?....
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