JISC e-Science All Hands Meeting Sept 2007 Gareth J Johnson.

JISC e-Science All Hands Meeting

Sept 2007

Gareth J Johnson

RSP Series (Part II)

2ND OF 3 RSP talks(1) RSP & OA

(2) The Depot

(3) OpenDOAR & RoMEO/JULIET services

Talk follows on from this morning• Open Access & Institutional repositories • Perceived OA benefits• Funders’ mandates• The Repositories Support Project (RSP)

UK Repositories

Data from OpenDOAR

Map generated by Repository 66

What is The Depot

A service that enables all UK researchers to deposit their academic papers and other outputs under terms of Open Access• Including those whose institution does not yet have a

repository

Launched in June 2007• Preliminary research 2006

Managed by EDINA, Edinburgh• Funded by JISC• Supported by SHERPA & RSP

http://depot.edina.ac.uk

Who is The Depot For?

Provided as a UK national facility • Supporting UK universities & National funding agencies’ Open

Access policies• Aids policy development in advance of a comprehensive

institutional repository network• Operates as a trusted repository for other sites

Academics with no institutional repository• Deposit in The Depot• Ensures/allows compliance with funding mandates

JISC Strategy• Institutional repositories not centralised services• Provides the last piece of JISCs strategy in supporting IRs

How does the Depot work?

An interim supporting measure• Whilst IR networks develop• Bridging the gap between nothing and something

Repository junction function• Draws on invaluable community i-resources• OpenDOAR & RoMEO

Alerts and links to appropriate institutional resources for users with IRs

Accepts deposits from those who do not

What Goes in the Depot

Main objective Ingest of post-review articles into the Depot• Published papers from researchers at institutions that

do not currently have an institutional repository.

It conforms to institutional repository standards • E.g. OAI-PMH protocol• Search engine services can locate and use contents• Special compliance with Intute: Repository Search

Why Deposit?

A keep-safe repository• Institutions will be notified when deposits are made • Offers a safe harbour for research• Offers equality of OA research benefits to all

Doesn’t offer all IR benefits• Such as showcase function and IPR asset management

Exit strategy• Eventual content migration to local servers• Will support transfer of relevant content to help populate new

institutional repositories• Legacy access from tombstone citations on Depot

“Put it in the Depot”

Contact EDINA for more information

[email protected]

Tel: 0131-650-3302

Gareth J Johnson

[email protected]