Open Access to Science: a practical Institutional Repository perspective

Open Access to Science: a practical Institutional Repository perspective 6th CALSI Workshop Polytechnic University of Valencia Valencia, Spain 14-16 November 2007 Dr Jessie M.N. Hey Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group Learning Societies Lab School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton, UK http://eprints.soton.ac.uk

From Southampton to sunny Valencia on the Med

Southampton – also a port

Valencia Workshop

University of Southampton - Computer Science influences

Professors include:

Prof. Stevan Harnad

Visionary and tireless archivangelist

of Open Access

Inspiration behind the first software for

departmental and institutional repositories (EPrints)

Prof. Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Also Founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative - subject of his inaugural lecture 14 th March 2007

Among a distinguished group of knowledge,

multimedia and Semantic Web scientists

What is Science?

Useful to think broadly for this purpose:

Including engineering, arts and scholarship

“ Science” is the activity of researchers and scientists in universities and research institutions throughout Europe and the world, all of whom are concerned with novel insights and creating new knowledge

What is Open Access?

Open Access brings us free online access to peer-reviewed research

Potentially including 2.5 million articles a year from 25,000 journals

Ensures ideas and results are taken up by as many other researchers as possible

Influenced by Budapest Open Access Initiative 6 years ago

What are Institutional Repositories (IRs)?

Institutional Repositories curate and showcase the intellectual output of the institution

Broader, in principle, than the Open Access vision

Also include potentially conference papers, theses, reports, working papers, presentations, posters, multimedia outputs, data, etc

Concepts explored in the TARDis project

Simpson, Pauline and Hey, Jessie M.N. (2005) Institutional e-Print repositories for research visibility. In, Drake, Miriam (ed.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 2nd ed. USA, Dekker. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/9057/

Research is global We recently had a workshop thinking far ahead to the Global Research Library 2020 Willows Lodge Workshop Woodinville, Washington, USA 30 Sept – 2 nd Oct 2007 http://www.lib.washington.edu/grl2020/

We anticipate profound changes in science (becoming e-science or more broadly e-research) and in library community roles

See for example:

Towards 2020 Science ed. Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research Ltd 2006

http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science/downloads.htm

e-Science and Its Implications for the Library Community Tony Hey and Jessie Hey 2006

http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00009155/

A telling view from a global researcher

Ann Marie Kimball, Professor, Epidemiology, University of Washington and Director, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Emerging Infections Network (APEC EINET)

A Grand Challenge to Information Systems: Success in Infectious Disease Control in the Asia Pacific

http://www.lib.washington.edu/grl2020/presentations.html

.........Open Access is vital to speed of reaction

Workshop followed by the Microsoft Library Summit 2007 on Oct 3rd

Keynote by Jon Udell: Remixing the library

Abstract : In an online world of small pieces loosely joined, librarians are among the most well qualified and highly motivated joiners of those pieces . Library patrons, meanwhile, are in transition. Once mainly consumers of information, they are now, on the two-way web, becoming producers too. Can libraries function not only as centers of consumption, but also as centers of production?

http://jonudell.net/talks/lib2020/talk.html

And we see, eg at the E-LIS workshop before this one, librarians are regaining a more active role in Institutional Repositories – getting closer to the action

Institutional and related repositories Nov 2007 - symbols of change http://maps.repository66.org/ 6.6 million items in 813 repositories – up from 6.4 million items and 763 repositories August 2007

Institutional Repositories by size But beware: L. Carr, T. Brody: Size Isn’t Everything: Sustainable Repositories as Evidenced by Sustainable Deposit Profiles. DLib Magazine 13(7/8) July/August (2007) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13872 /

The future is joined up: the scholarly knowledge cycle (joining up research and learning) Our latest project http://www.edspace.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ is exploring the creation of a learning materials repository EdShare - part of our whole vision of the University of Southampton institutional repository Thanks to Liz Lyon

Southampton portfolio of databases combine towards the institutional repository with increasing heterogeneity

Research – more full text but also expect more video/audio with talks/delivering papers

Expect more complex objects in the Arts

eCrystals – specialised formats for data

SERPENT – more video and audio

EdShare – again more multimedia

eCrystals: Fundamental and derived data resulting from a single crystal X-ray structure determination

Crystal structures stored as e-prints

Individual entries consist of 3 parts:

Core bibliographic data, such as authors, affiliation and a number of chemical identifiers

Data collection parameters that allow the reader to assess at a glance certain aspects of the crystallographic dataset

Files available for download. These files are: visualisations of the raw data (.jpg), the raw data itself (.hkl), experimental conditions (.htm), outputs from stages of the structure determination (_xs.lst, _xl.lst & .res), the final structural result (.cif & .cml) and the validation report of the derived structure (_checkcif.htm).

SERPENT image and video database

SERPENT: Piglet squid image from the bottom of an oil rig

Next stages: projects aim for richer, better preserved ‘joined up’ repositories

KULTUR creating a transferable and sustainable institutional repository model for research output in the creative and applied arts

PRESERV and PRESERV2 http://preserv.eprints.org/

enabling long term access to materials in institutional repositories

CLADDIER http://claddier.badc.ac.uk/

exploring joining up data in environmental databases e.g. British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) to the institutional repositories at Southampton and STFC

DataShare http://www.disc-uk.org/datashare.html

exploring ‘orphaned’ datasets and institutional repositories

We represent Scientific authors well – how do we do justice to our Artists? IRs are multidisciplinary

But we are not alone! Everyone wants their own picture to showcase their expanding area

Repositories expanding linearly (Tim Brody’s E-LIS talk this week)

Departmental

Institutional

National e.g. UK, Wales, Scotland...

Netherlands - a good size.....

Europe – e.g. funded research

Following example of other funders eg UKPMC funders group

Today we are thinking about Europe and Europe is now in the driving seat!

Real action by the UKPMC Funders Group (including the Wellcome Trust) provides a good exemplar

More subject based repositories affect IRs however

Especially PubMed Central – funder obviously wants theirs to be priority

Ideally we want a copy in our repository too to be sure

Will need new ways of working with these - easy deposit or compromise on easy trusted links

The increasing activities in Europe – our first speaker

A Conference of Rectors of European Universities convened in Liège on 18 October 2007 by the Rector of the University of Liège, Bernard Rentier, has launched EurOpenScholar :

“ a showcase and a tool for the promotion of Open Access (OA) in Europe.”

It will be a consortium of European universities resolved to move forward on OA and to try to convince the largest possible number of researchers, their institutions and their European Funding Agencies to engage now in what will undoubtedly be the mode of communication of tomorrow.

Initiatives in different regions can be practical and appropriate

In a victory for libraries, the Senate on October 23 passed an appropriations bill that included a mandatory public access directive for research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

On a local level