The document discusses the potential for libraries and repositories to play a greater role in supporting open educational resources (OER). It describes how the Leeds Met repository currently hosts both research publications and OER. It argues that integrating research and teaching materials in repositories, along with staff profiles and other systems, could help create a "virtuous circle" of OER creation, sharing, and reuse. The document also examines challenges around different technologies and promoting greater awareness of libraries' potential contributions to OER.

1. Libraries, OA research and OER: towards
symbiosis?
Lightning talk at OER13: Creating a Virtuous Circle
Nick Sheppard
Repository Developer,
Leeds Metropolitan University
UKCoRR (Technical Officer)
n.e.sheppard@leedsmet.ac.uk
Blogs:
http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/
http://ukcorr.org/activity/blog/
@mrnick @ukcorr

2. The Leeds Met repository
• JISC Repositories Start-up (2007)
• Prioritised set of needs
• Broad range of material
• Commercial solution (intraLibrary)
• Multiple Application Profiles
• Flexible organisational structure
• Unicycle - phase 1 ukoer project (2009)
• “Blended” repository
– http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/
• Two publicly accessible collections
– Research (OA full text)
– OER
– Links between collections
– ALPS Common Competency Map
• Developing research management
infrastructure
• Symplectic Elements

3. A New Open Landscape?
• Open Access to research
• Finch report and role of (institutional) repositories
• Gold vs Green (and CC licencing)
• Research Data Management
• Learning objects
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Role of academic libraries
• “outside in” vs “inside out” (Lorcan Dempsey)
• Managing (and disseminating) “institutional assets”
• Open journal publishing
• Open Journal System (OJS)
• EPrints
• The lines are blurring
• Is our software/infrastructure up to the job?

4. We found a clear need to promote the role that libraries and
librarians can play in OER initiatives, highlighting the expertise and
competencies which libraries and librarians can offer. This active
promotion is needed to build awareness among stakeholders about
libraries and librarians potential contribution to the OER
movement, but also, among libraries and librarians about their key
role as OER advocates within and out-with their institutions.
The roles of libraries and information professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives
Gema Bueno-de-la-Fuente, R. John Robertson, Stuart Boon. August 2012
http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2012/492

5. Integrating infrastructure(s)
• Disseminate and discover
• RSP Embedding Guide
– http://www.rsp.ac.uk/embeddingguide/
• Practical guide
• Embedding research repositories
• Institutional processes, systems, culture
• Synced with HR database
• Dynamic feeds to staff profiles

6. Two very different animals?
Academic libraries/repositories historically:
• Focus on access to research materials
• Not closely involved with management
of teaching materials
• Often in VLEs (when available digitally)
• Library may not have access
• Poorly integrated into users’ view of
library resources
• Digital objects
• Quality assurance
• Dissemination
• Discovery (SEO)
• Preservation
• Metadata
• Usage metrics
• Attribution/citation
• Copyright/licensing

7. Research Management infrastructure
Researchers and
HR, Finance, administrators Other
Students, Est repositories Funders’ systems e.g.
ates Research councils
Researchers’
Other internal profiles, web
systems e.g.
CRIS/RMS
pages
email
Repository
Copyright info from RoMEO Publication reporting
(internal, REF), busin
Bibliographic/bibliometric data ess intelligence
from (commercial) databases
Discovery & link resolution:
library catalogue
Usage data
Adapted from the Repositories Support Project
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/embeddingguide/introduction-to-the-guide-2/scenario-2/

8. OER on staff profiles?
• Are you aware of examples of OER included on staff profiles at UK HEIs?
• Bebob at the University of Lincoln
– “the Bebop plugin has provided a way for staff to publish a curated list of their teaching
resources, which can be displayed on their official Staff Directory profile”
• HumBox also incorporates nice user profiles (subject based)
• EdShare?
• Increasingly important for research staff to have online profile
• Listing research outputs
• Link to an accessible version of the full text (research data / other files?)
• Why not OER?

9. Symplectic Elements (or similar)
Manual data
Database of Leeds Met
entry research
All staff have account
(synced daily with HR)
Link to repository
(full text/data/OER)
API to feed data back
out to www

10. The Jorum API

11. Closing the institutional ukoer circle
Repurpose
Local deposit into IR
Relicence
Redeposit
Leeds Met Repository
Open OAI-
API PMH
• Parallels development of OA research aggregation
• CORE (Connecting Repositories)
• http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/
• Ubiquitous CC licensing makes it easier

12. http://libraryonline.leedsmet.ac.uk/pages/resources/for_your_subject/
http://libraryonline.leedsmet.ac.uk/pages/resources/discover

13. References
Discovery vs discoverability ...
Dempsey, L. (2013) Discovery vs discoverability .... Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog On libraries, services and
networks, [blog] 2nd January, Available at: http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002206.html [Accessed: 21st
March 2013].
Libraries, Institutions, and Open Educational Resources: possible connections?
Robertson, J. (2010) Libraries, Institutions, and Open Educational Resources: possible connections?. John's
JISC CETIS blog, [blog] 17 March, Available at: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/03/17/librariesandoers/
[Accessed: 25/03/2013].
Open Educational Resources and the University Library Website
Hirst, T. (2009) Open Educational Resources and the University Library Website. OUseful.Info, the blog…,
[blog] August 10, Available at: http://blog.ouseful.info/2009/08/10/open-educational-resources-and-the-
university-library-website/ [Accessed: 25/03/2013].
BuddyPress, Bebop and building the staff directory
Winn, J. (2012) BuddyPress, Bebop and building the staff directory. BuddyPress OER Profiles: A JISC
Funded Project, [blog] October 11, Available at: http://bebop.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2012/10/11/buddypress-
bebop-and-building-the-staff-directory/ [Accessed: 25/03/2013].