'Collecting everything & the challenge of digital only publications; the case of edeposit Ireland' Christoph Schmidt-Supprian TCD. Case study presented at 'Information Innovators: Librarians evolving in the digital environment' the Academic & Special Libraries conference 2014

1. A&SL Annual Conference 2014: “Information Innovators”
... a home for Ireland's electronic publications
Christoph Schmidt-Supprian,
Trinity College Library, Dublin
28 February 2014

2. What is edepositIreland?
New at TCD Library
Collecting electronic publications
Self-archiving model

3. Why?
Irish legal deposit: print only
Government information: electronic only
Future legislation versus Present demand

4. Goals (1)
Start now
• Government
sector
(demand)
• Open access
(contrast UK eLegal Deposit)
• Medium-term
preservation
Work smart
• Use existing
infrastructure
• Publisher-side
deposit and
metadata
creation
Design as service
• Archive for the
future
• Publication
listings on
departmental
websites

5. Goals (2)
Future-proofing
• Scalable to highvolume deposit
• Access control for
commercial content
• Platform migration
(e.g. for long-term
preservation)
Collaborate
• Work with other Irish
legal deposit libraries
• Build a collaborative edeposit infrastructure
for Ireland
• One-stop deposit for all

6. What have we done?
TARA (proven functionalities, customisable)
Re-branding, re-design
Website (publisher engagement)

7. How does it work?

12. “Information Innovators: Librarians
evolving in the digital environment”
Electronic deposit
• Not just change in format
• Change in relationship
with publishers
• Evolution of role of
librarian
Changing library roles
• Acquisitions librarian:
advocacy and support
• Cataloguers: collections
administrators and
content managers
• All: Managing parallel
workflows, print and edeposit

13. In Conclusion:
edepositIreland for …
Publishers
A platform to
manage and host
your publications
Researchers
An open access
repository for
your research
Librarians
De-duplication of
effort

14. Vision
National infrastructure for Irish electronic legal deposit
Publishers submit to central portal only
If you would like to become involved, get in touch!

15. Questions?
Contact Information:
edepositIreland Manager –
Niamh Harte harteni@tcd.ie
Christoph Schmidt-Supprian schmidc@tcd.ie
http://www.tcd.ie/Library/edepositireland/