open access: a global perspective morag greig & william j. nixon
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Open Access: a global perspective
Morag Greig & William J. Nixon
Initiatives and developments
• UK initiatives• Initiatives worldwide
UK Developments : Timeline
• 2002 – JISC FAIR Programme• 2004 – Scottish Open Access Declaration• 2006 – JISC Repository Net• 2007 – Repository Support Project
UKCORR
FAIR Programme (2002-2005)
• Focus on access to institutional resources • 3 Year Programme• Wide range of projects set-up
– E-Theses projects at Edinburgh and RGU– SHERPA – Partners with Nottingham, Leeds,
Sheffield, Oxford universities– ROMEO Project at Loughborough
Growth of Repositories in the UK
• 112 Registered Repositories• The UK currently has 11% of the global
repositories, Germany has 12% and the USA 28% [Source: OpenDOAR]
Growth in UK Repositories and Records
Key Role for JISC in UK: Repository Net (2006-)
• JISC has committed £15 million towards Digital Repositories and Preservation activity
• Established JISC RepositoryNet– Research Support Project– Intute Search Service– The Depot
Repositories Support Project
• Funded by JISC• Launched 2007• Mission:
“to co-ordinate and deliver good practice and practical advice to English and Welsh HEIs to enable the implementation, management and development of digital institutional repositories.”
Screenshot: RSP
Intute - Repository Search Service
• Goals:– Make it easier for Universities to find Open Access
Content– Raise the visibility of content– Encourage the deposit of content
• Funded from 2006-9• Wide range of content
– 86 UK Repositories– 168,000 Papers
Screenshot: Intute
the Depot
• National Repository Service for Institutions without a Repository
• Provides a national gateway to repositories• Accepts published and peer-reviewed
materials• Will provide assistance to transfer material• “Put it in the Depot”
Screenshot: the Depot
International declarations
• Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
• Bethesda Statement, 2003http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm
• Berlin Declaration, 2003http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
• National Institutes of Health, 2004• UK Research Councils, 2006
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/outputs/access/default.htm
• See http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm for many more!
International conferences on open access
• OAI workshops (Geneva) - 5 held already• Nordic Conference on Scholarly
Communication (Lund)• Open Scholarship (Glasgow)• Open Repositories• Many individual events in countries
worldwide – Tanzania, Rio de Janeiro, Jeddah, Bern, Athens, Aleppo – to name a few for November/December 2007!
• List of events: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm
Selected initiatives
• DRIVER (European)• DARENet (Netherlands)• Arrow (Australia)
Software user groups and communities
• DSpace Federation (http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=30&Itemid=55)
• Fedora Users Group • ePrints Community
(http://www.eprints.org/community/)
Repositories listed by continent
Conclusions
• Open access is an important worldwide movement
• Researchers and librarians worldwide are working towards the same goal
• Together we can revolutionise access to the scholarly literature