Repositories and RAE Submission Getting More Out Of Institutional Repositories

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Repositories and RAE SubmissionGetting More Out
Of Institutional Repositories

• Bill Hubbard
• SHERPA Manager
• University of Nottingham

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To get more out . . .

• You have to put more in!

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Repositories and the RAE

• In principle good fit for sciences
• eprints as digital duplicates of articles
• conference papers
• but in a digital world, will articles remain as
  sole object of assessment?
• Arts and Humanities?
• book chapters
• videos
• multimedia
• exhibitions, etc
• Challenges but soluble and being worked on

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Underlying issues with using IRs

• Encouraging use by academics
• Versions of papers
• pre-print
• post-print
• authors version
• publishers pdf
• What is being assessed?
• Rights to house materials
• for RAE
• for Open Access

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Funding cycle and assessment
Publishers
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in practice . . .
Publishers
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Timing, timing, timing . . .

• Next time . . . well get it right!
• What can we do now?
• IRs can be used as Institutional Research
  Management System (IRMS)
• IRs can be used as partial solution for OA
  materials or where panels give the lead that
  they will accept author-versions

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Modifying the repository

• Dark archives
• Dark corners
• Metadata only entries
• pointing to external RAE/OA-access source
• pointing to publisher site accessible by RAE
• pointing to subscription site
• But this does loose the fundamental idea of an
  Open Access Repository
• Carts and horses . . . which is which?

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UK Institutional Repositories

• Aberdeen
• AHDS S
• Bath
• Birkbeck S
• Birmingham S
• Bristol S
• British Library S
• Cambridge S
• Cardiff
• CCLRC
• Cranfield
• Durham S
• Edinburgh S

• Glasgow S
• Imperial S
• Lancaster
• Leeds S
• Loughborough
• LSE S
• Kings College S
• Manchester
• Middlesex
• Newcastle S
• Nottingham S
• Open University
• Oxford S

• Portsmouth
• Royal Holloway S
• Sheffield S
• St Andrews
• SOAS S
• Southampton
• Stirling
• Strathclyde
• Surrey
• UCL S
• York S
• Warwick

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UKCORR- UK Council Of Research Repositories

• Arts and Humanities Data Service
• University of Bath
• Birkbeck College
• University of Birmingham
• University of Bristol
• British Library
• University of Cambridge
• University of Chester
• De Montfort University
• University of Durham

• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• Imperial College
• Kings College
• University of Leeds
• University of Liverpool
• Liverpool John Moores
• London School of Economics
• University of Newcastle
• University of Nottingham

• Open University
• University of Portsmouth
• Royal Holloway
• School of Oriental and African Studies
• University of Sheffield
• University of Southampton
• University of Stirling
• University of Strathclyde
• University College, London
• University of York

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Futures

• 10 years - what changes are coming down the track
  and what responses are needed?
• What is inside your control and what is outside?
• Irrespective of repositories, author-side
  charges, open access - what will develop?
• Developments in the web and ICT alone will
  produce substantial change . . .
• Some themes . . .

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Journals

• Governments will not loosen the purse strings
• Subscriptions per journal will continue to
  decline
• Continued agglomeration of publishing concerns
• Smaller publishers will continue to be squeezed
  and have to react
• The big and the nimble will survive
• Editorial and peer-review process will be
  technologically mediated
• Unbundling of products, processes and services -
  with a global marketplace for service provision

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Academics and IT

• Increasing connectivity
• Increasing demand for rapid, permanent access,
  everywhere
• Increasing demand for more information
• Increasing demand for free access
• Information per se will be more freely available
  and the links between information will become the
  valued commodity

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Research

• Full Economic Costing and Value For Money
• Public awareness and public availability
• Raised awareness of IPR issues
• Institutions being pressured to capitalise on
  assets
• Cross-disciplinary research
• Synthesis - evidence based research - data mining
• Emergence of global standards - quality control?
  - with a global marketplace for service provision

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Research Assessment - processes

• Change to metrics based assessment
• IT-based access, analysis, storage, process
• Continual rather than periodic
• Cross-publication and cross-discipline metrics
• Information that we will have at hand, rather
  than publishers
• We will have the capability to service these
  needs in-house
• We need to advertise our place in the process and
  lead innovation

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http//www.sherpa.ac.ukhttp//www.opendoar.org
bill.hubbard_at_nottingham.ac.uk
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SHERPA -

• Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research
  Preservation and Access
• SHERPA Partner institutions
• Birkbeck College, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge,
  Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Imperial College,
  Kings College, Leeds, LSE, Newcastle,
  Nottingham, Oxford, Royal Holloway, School of
  Oriental and African Studies, Sheffield,
  University College London,York the British
  Library and AHDS
• www.sherpa.ac.uk

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SHERPA - projects

• SHERPA
• SHERPA Plus
• OpenDOAR
• SHERPA/RoMEO
• SHERPA DP
• EThOS
• Institutional Repository Statistics (IRS)
• Linking Repositories
• - MIDESS, IRIS, VERSIONS, SPECTRa and StORe