The IReL-Open initiative and institutional repositories in Ireland: increasing the visibility of Irish research. Rachel Hill DORAS Institutional Repository Manager, Dublin City University Library Talis Irish Academic Event 08, UCD, 24 June 2008

Background information on institutional repositories IReL-Open overview How institutional repositories are increasing visibility of Irish research Some challenges faced by IReL-Open partners Outline

Background information on institutional repositories

IReL-Open overview

How institutional repositories are increasing visibility of Irish research

Some challenges faced by IReL-Open partners

Digital collections of scholarly research from academic communities Online and Open Access Showcase of research output from institution Increase visibility of research Potential to increase the impact of research Typically contain research papers such as journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, working papers, etc. OAI-PMH: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Institutional repositories

Digital collections of scholarly research from academic communities

Online and Open Access

Showcase of research output from institution

Increase visibility of research

Potential to increase the impact of research

Typically contain research papers such as journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, working papers, etc.

OAI-PMH: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

What is OAI-PMH? Data Provider Service Provider Data Provider Data Provider e.g. Portal e.g. IRs Metadata Harvester

3 year project 2007-2010 Managed by IUA Librarians Group € 1.6m funded through HEA Strategic Innovation Fund and matched by the institutions Project workspace: http://www.irel-open.ie IReL-Open Overview

3 year project 2007-2010

Managed by IUA Librarians Group

€ 1.6m funded through HEA Strategic Innovation Fund and matched by the institutions

Project workspace: http://www.irel-open.ie

Establish IRs in all 7 IUA universities Create a National Research Portal Contain content harvested from the individual IRs Facilitate a range of value-added services Potential of scaling up to include harvested content from other partners beyond the IUA universities IReL-Open goals

Establish IRs in all 7 IUA universities

Create a National Research Portal

Contain content harvested from the individual IRs

Facilitate a range of value-added services

Potential of scaling up to include harvested content from other partners beyond the IUA universities

What stage are we at now?

Metadata: collaboration on standards Guided by international and European standards IReL-Open core set IReL-Open core set for theses Publicity: Open Access event organised by IUA in May National Research Portal on the way What stage are we at now?

Metadata: collaboration on standards

Guided by international and European standards

IReL-Open core set

IReL-Open core set for theses

Publicity: Open Access event organised by IUA in May

National Research Portal on the way

Will be completed by end of Year 3 Will use OAI-PMH to harvest metadata from Irish IRs Planned services Search across repositories Faceted browse facility Author Institution Year of publication Keywords RSS feeds based on search and browse queries Potential to scale up and include other value-added services National Research Portal

Will be completed by end of Year 3

Will use OAI-PMH to harvest metadata from Irish IRs

Planned services

Search across repositories

Faceted browse facility

Author

Institution

Year of publication

Keywords

RSS feeds based on search and browse queries

Potential to scale up and include other value-added services

Demo: IRs ncreasing visibility of Irish research DCU Online Research Access Service Demo of accessing DORAS papers via OAI-PMH portals Search Engines

DCU Online Research Access Service

Demo of accessing DORAS papers via

OAI-PMH portals

Search Engines

Open Access to European research DRIVER’s m ain objective: “to build a virtual, European scale network of existing institutional repositories using technology that will manage the physically distributed repositories as one large scale virtual content source.” DRIVER portal (beta) http://www.driver-community.eu / European portal: DRIVER

Open Access to European research

DRIVER’s m ain objective: “to build a virtual, European scale network of existing institutional repositories using technology that will manage the physically distributed repositories as one large scale virtual content source.”

DRIVER portal (beta)

http://www.driver-community.eu /

DART-Europe E-Theses Portal (DEEP) http://www.dart-europe.eu / Free online access to over 90,000 research theses 34 European partners, including DCU and TCD European portal: DART-Europe

DART-Europe E-Theses Portal (DEEP)

http://www.dart-europe.eu /

Free online access to over 90,000 research theses

34 European partners, including DCU and TCD

Search for journal article: "Cavity length independent continuous repetition rate tuning of a self-seeded gain-switched Fabry-Pérot laser"

optical communication dcu

prince anandarajah dcu

Statistics

Some challenges faced by IReL-Open partners Getting the content in Advocacy Open access mandates/policies Metadata issues Local metadata practices vs. IReL-Open metadata core set National Research Portal: normalisation of metadata Integrating IRs with other systems: research support systems, author CV pages, departmental websites, etc.

Getting the content in

Advocacy

Open access mandates/policies

Metadata issues

Local metadata practices vs. IReL-Open metadata core set

National Research Portal: normalisation of metadata

Integrating IRs with other systems: research support systems, author CV pages, departmental websites, etc.

Rachel Hill DORAS Institutional Repository Manager, Dublin City University E: [email_address] T: +353 1 700 8747 W: http://www.ir.dcu.ie Questions??

Rachel Hill

DORAS Institutional Repository Manager, Dublin City University

E: [email_address]

T: +353 1 700 8747

W: http://www.ir.dcu.ie