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The library as a virtual research environment
Bill Hubbard
SHERPA Project Manager
University of Nottingham
A virtual research environment
what is in this environment ? what do academics want ? what role does the library play ?
Users wanted . . .
access to financial information access to funding and research opportunities support in working practices access to library services on-line
Portal first page
Portal finance
Research news
Virtual community and support
Weblog support
Virtual working environment
research project management research development support for collaborative working
access to library services and research papers
Resources -
Resources - inc Metalib
Institutional repositories
improve scholarly communication facilitate the research process easy and cheap to establish fit in with current working practices can be built incrementally
Establishing a repository
technically straight forward free software - EPrints.org, DSpace and others standard server needs integration into institutional systems & services collections policy
– different disciplines– different research cultures
Benefits for the researcher
wide dissemination – papers more visible– cited more
rapid dissemination ease of access cross-searchable value added services
– hit counts on papers– personalised publications lists– citation analyses
Why institutional ?
institutions have centralised resources:– to subsidise repository start up– to support repositories with technical / organisational
infrastructures– to deal effectively with preservation issues over the long term
institutions get benefits:– raises profile and prestige of institution– tool for managing institutional information assets– permanent record of research activities– encourages an institutional identity in intellectual output
Nottingham ePrints
Nottingham eprints - record
SHERPA repositories
Birkbeck Birmingham Bristol British Library Cambridge Durham Edinburgh
Glasgow Imperial Leeds LSE Kings College Newcastle Nottingham
Oxford Royal Holloway Sheffield SOAS UCL York AHDS
Institutional repositories worldwide
– United States (57) – United Kingdom (29) – Canada (17) – Sweden (13) – France (12) – Netherlands (12) – Italy (11) – Germany (9) – Australia (8) – Hungary (4)
– China (4) – Brazil (3) – Denmark (3) – Portugal (2) – South Africa (2) – Austria (2) – India (2) – Japan (2) – Mexico (2) – Ireland (2)
– Belgium (2) – Finland (1) – Slovenia (1) – Israel (1) – Norway (1) – Switzerland (1) – Croatia (1) – Peru (1) – Spain (1)
repositories set up in each partner institution papers being added negotiations with publishers discussions on preservation of eprints work on IPR and deposit licences advocacy campaigns
SHERPA - progress
A virtual research environment
offers personalised services syntheses access to information and services provides a supported working environment used for finding information used for disseminating information facilitates collaboration in new ways
and across old boundaries
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk
bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk
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