open access & visibility management digital preservation ora: purposes
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Open access & visibility
Management
Digital Preservation
ORA: Purposes
• Conference items: Papers; Posters; Presentations• Articles: Including supplementary material and extended
versions; No page limit • Books and book sections and chapters; Out of print• Working and discussion papers• Reports and technical reports• Questionnaires• Pre-prints• Audio files; Images and diagrams • Research theses• [Datasets]
ORA is designed to hold any type of item produced as a result of academic research
Usage stats
• Open access • Increased readership (and citations)• Easy sharing with colleagues• Speed of publication• Interoperability with other systems eg SOLO• Usage statistics• Google• Open search and Embed search by author, dept etc as required,
RSS feeds• Unique identifiers & Persistent links• Immediate deposit/optional access (preservation & visibility)• Research materials stored in a single location (shop window)• University Press Office
Research data• ORA: for storing or referencing data• DataBank Proof of concept as Oxford data store and access provider• Linking data and publications
• Funding agency requirements (full text and possibly data) – Eg AHRC (see summary at
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php)• List/search by author/research group/department
– as required• Embed search by author, dept etc as required• All types of research materials• Multiple versions if required• Relate items to each other• Research materials stored in a single location
• Contact with REF system developers
• Harvest data from REF system (data obtained from PMC, WoS etc)
• ORA for full text
• ORA as the means to create automatically updated lists of publications on web pages
• REF system for REF reporting
No downloads
For use eg with sensitive materials, copyright
Content can be preserved in ‘dark archive’
Can be included in full list of publications
Included in Google search – visibility
Links to published version
Record only
Detailed search
Grouped results
RSS feed
URL of search
Conference ‘event’ in ORAWith papers listed
Papers related to event
Formally published itemsEg Books, journal articles
Author signs ‘Transfer of copyright’ (see Author choices)
Articles: many publishers permit a version to be
made available in ORAhttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
‘Unpublished’ materialEg most conference papers,
posters, reports etc
Copyright usually remains with author
Third party copyrightCan affect all items
Tends to affect images, maps, diagrams etc
Permission to make materialfreely available on the Internet
Author choices
• Transfer copyright (CTA)
• Retain copyright
• Licence to publish
• Alternative wording for CTA
Help: www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ora Or contact [email protected]
BRII (Building the Research Information Infrastructure)• University ‘Blue Pages’• Themed website• Data for ORA item records
Interoperability with other systems: SOLO, Symplectic, geospatial data
Semantic web technologies – forward looking, enables flexibility and machine-readable data and context
EasyWeb form
Standard[Quick]Email
BulkBulk upload
of data (where a source
exists)
New items Legacy items
* Symplectic and future plans…
• Digital preservation• High visibility…citations, impact• Open access• Persistent links• Unique identifiers • All item types – published or unpublished• Supplementary material• Articles at any length ie no page limit• Semantic web technologies – relationships • Research in a single location• RSS feeds• Funding agency requirements• Easy deposit
Roadmap includes (informed by focus groups):• Importing content from other sources• Creating author profiles• Exporting data to EndNote• Search and web interface development • Filter search (publication date; has full text etc)• Reports (how author’s work was discovered)• Easier item deposit (cf BRII project)• Generating reports – to be investigated to find out user
requirements• Increased storage• Statistics: web usage and tracking• Projects eg BRII
Research data• Linking data and publications• ORA: for storing or referencing data (and DataBank)• DataBank pilot as Oxford data store and access provider for
research data