Combining Cultures to Create Open Institutional e-Print

Archives

Making Connections: Connecting People, Connecting Technology

ALT/SURF joint one-day conferenceAmsterdam 10th April 2003

Combining Forces:

Jessie Hey Information Manager

Chris Gutteridge Computer Programmer

University of Southampton, England

Cardigans and Anoraks combine forces Information

Specialist

Computer Scientist

Connecting People and Technology Followed by a

complementary presentation developing the issues from the Dutch perspective by

Kurt De Belder

Chief of Electronic Services

(in polo neck?)

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Workshop progression to make you open archive aware! What do we mean? What is the OAI-PMH!!!? (Chris) Subject based and institutional archives (Jessie) What is the GNU EPrints software? (Chris) What is TARDIS about and how have we worked

together? (Jessie) The broader UK vision (Jessie) The Dutch vision and activities (Kurt)

Interspersed with lots of questions

Many catalysts for open archives

Open as in freely available– Encouraged by Budapest Open Access

Initiative

Open as in interoperable– Encouraged by Open Archive Initiative

Budapest Open Access Initiative

http://www.soros.org/openaccess Launched 14th February 2002 by George Soros’s

Open Society Institute Worldwide coordinated movement dedicated to

freeing online access

Even wealthier institutions afford a small and shrinking proportion of the 4 million articles a year

The BOAI

Providing universities with the means through institutional self archiving

Providing support for new alternative journals offering open online access

Open societies need open access

Open Archive Initiative

Open Archive Initiative (OAI) – 1st meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico 3 years ago

Now have an significant solution for open (interoperable) archives in OAI-PMH v 2 (Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) June 2002

Laid down rules which make search services for many distributed archives possible

Your database needs to be OAI-compliant!

e-Prints or eprints or e-prints

Electronic versions of research output including:– Journal articles– Conference papers– Book chapters– Reports– We take a holistic approach and include many items such

as theses– Others take a very narrow approach to further open access

to refereed papers

They may include unpublished manuscripts and papers presented for publication (as copyright allows)

Archives

Common term used for repositories/stores where authors self archive their work on the World Wide Web

Very different in character to traditional library archives

We have therefore used e-Prints service to clarify our mission

Entering another phase

Many enabling technologies, standards, and protocols to support institutional repositories already exist e.g. the OAI-PMH protocol to enable interoperability

The World Wide Web is taken for granted as part of the infrastructure

Anorak time

A busy person’s introduction to OAI-PMH

by Chris

Subject based archives

Pioneering example is ArXiv set up by Paul Ginsparg in 1991 Based on a culture of High Energy Physics preprints - trad.

Science journal so slow and expensive I helped produce the paper listing at CERN in the 70s for

circulation around the world the old-fashioned way Now needs a librarian’s eye to improve the subject navigation,

formats and interface as it is used also by non-techies Other archives now like CogPrints and RePEc - Working papers

in Economics - but not a huge number

All 3 here started by enthusiasts

arXiv – server weekly usage

Red - Number of connections in each week Blue - Number of hosts connecting that week (divide by 10 for correct number) Green - Number of new hosts that week (divide by 10)

eScholarship

The California Digital Library (created 1997) started producing some discipline based archives: as they produce more they see that both subject and institutional archives will emerge and complement each other.

They might, for example, have a branded research centre site and a central repository – TARDIS will be exploring these ideas too

They may contain a variety of e-Prints from preprints through conference papers through journal articles through teaching materials or even data (as planned by MIT)

Institutional Archives

Reawakening to the value of greater access to an institution’s research

Essential increase in visibility of our intellectual output A preservation role (like our traditional archivists?) –

at least a secure system and collaboration on a complex problem

I have papers that my colleagues who collaborated with me cannot read or do not have a copy of because we do not subscribe to that journal (problem highlighted by the UK Research Assessment Exercise)

From our departmental database Google will find the paper if we have self archived it

Range of Software Options for Archives/Repositories GNU EPrints [Southampton] DSpace [MIT/Hewlett Packard, USA] CDSware [CERN, Geneva] ARNO [Tilburg] ETD-db for theses [Virginia Tech, USA] Greenstone for digital libraries [New

Zealand]

Supporting Software

Software such as GNU EPrints from IAM group University of Southampton is free

Pioneered by Prof. Stevan Harnad to further the cause of self-archiving

EPrints 2 developed by Chris Gutteridge

Eprints mailing lists indicate takeup is global and new users feedback into EPrints (e.g. language)

Anorak time

What is GNU Eprints 2? by Chris

Our TARDIS project – what is it about? Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and

Disclosure (as it says on the tin) Building Towards a Sustainable e-Print service

for Southampton research Multidisciplinary collections with views for

communities Extended model with mediated deposit Input to design of the software to match

institutional repositories’ needs Presentations and documents at

http://tardis.eprints.org/

Time of preparatory work with departments, software and library Looking at departmental practice – environmental

assessment

Modifying aspects of software relevant to working on a broader front– Incorporating good library practice– Involving Human Computer Interaction lecturere.g.

• Submission process• Publication types• Format of output

Involving other librarians – e.g. workshop in March

Examples of current departmental web site publication data at Southampton University

Department

Books

Journal articles and book

chapters

Full text

Archaeology 47 205 2 Chemistry 13 1115 111 Economics 9 348 89 Electronics and Computer Science

131 6877 866 (personal web sites not counted)

English 62 181 3 Maths Education 21 149 34 Politics 49 89 6 Health Professions and Rehabilitation Sciences

8 324 0

Some other observations – how can we best complement their practice? Astronomy importing data from arXiv Economics feed into RePEc global archive Physicists may search SPIRES library

database linked to arXiv (recent survey results)

School of Health Professions is example of clear, well organised publications listing for staff but no full text

Academics have many demands for publications listings in a variety of formats

Copyright concerns must be addressed Raising awareness of key issues and making

help visible to depositor RoMEO project – publisher copyright policies

and self-archiving table found useful to both our librarians and academics

The impact of copyright ownership on open access.  EUSIDIC Spring Meeting.  Karlsruhe, 18 March 2003  

Creating author deposit agreement for e-Prints Soton

Working together

Understanding what we both mean by fundamental concepts:

Preservation Cosmetic Understanding how the parts we care about

affect the other’s concerns – chicken and egg!

Library concerns v. database concerns Listening and explaining!

Open Archives Forum disseminates information about European activity An Aim: stimulating building of an open archives

infrastructure in Europe

Found country activity in: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,

Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and 20 countries were at Geneva workshop in October 2002 2nd Workshop – Open Access to Hidden Resources

Lisbon Portugal 5-7 Dec 2002 for Libraries and Archives to explore viability of open archive

approach

Susanne Dobratz, 17. Oct. 2002, Geneva, 2nd Workshop on OAI: Gaining Independence with e-prints and OAI

IST- 2001-320015

We’re not alone – support from the USA The Case for Institutional Repositories:

a SPARC position paper – prepared by Raym Crow July 2002

Supplemented by: SPARC Institutional Repository

Checklist and Resources Guide October 2002

FAIR programme – support in the UK £3 million on 14 projects starting August

2002 Clusters:

– Museums and Images– E-Prints– E-theses– IPR– Institutional portals

UK Focus on Access to Institutional Resources – e-Prints TARDis: Targeting Academic Resources for

Dissemination and dISclosure SHERPA: broader - Consortium of Research

Libraries – filling archives and joint infrastructure

HaIRST: A testbed for Scotland ePrints-UK: also investigating subject

structure using Dewey classification

                                                     

         

ePrints-UK architecture*

* reproduced with permission

FAIR: UK vision to increase access to scholarly assets FAIR programme for a Focus on Access to Institutional

Resources Inspired by the vision of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)

that digital resources can be shared between organisations based on a simple mechanisim allowing metadata about these resources to be harvested into services

To support the disclosure of institutional assets: To support access to and sharing of institutional content

within Higher Education and Further Education and to allow intelligence to be gathered about the technical, organisational and cultural challenges of these processes…

TARDis – to summarise

Providing an exemplar institutional archive at Southampton – practising what we preach and building on the software and advocacy examples provided by Southampton people

Combining self-archiving (including departmental archives) and an institutional archive (mediated by the library)

Feeding back new demands of each into the EPrints software as librarians (not techies)

Describing the vision – but can we change the university culture(s)?

Next stage - Moving on to the Dutch perspective Philosophy Practice Producing Services

How do they relate to our UK experience as illustrated by our e-Prints Soton handout?

Thank you - Chris Gutteridge and Jessie Hey And on to Kurt De Belder