WIT Libraries. Our Institutional Repository Story David Kane, WIT.

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WIT Libraries

Our Institutional Repository Story

David Kane, WIT

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About Scholarly Communication

• Current System (for 350 years)• Print Paradigm

• Problems• Increased sum of human knowledge

• The Journals Crisis• The Internet

• Disintermediation

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Journal Prices

From 2000 to 2004, the increase in median price for 12 journal publishers rose between 27% (Cambridge U.P.) and 94% (Sage).

Library and Information Statistics Unit (Loughbrough University)

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Journal Prices

Average prices of peer-reviewed titles increased by an annual average of 6.5% from 2009 to 2011.

2010 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Society Journals: Society Journal Pricing Trends and Industry Overview

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Physics Reports

Print: €8,467

I.F. = 20.394

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Brain Research

Print: €23,843

I.F. = 3.417

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Institutional Annual Subscription USA Canada & Mexico UK Europe (Euro zone)

Rest of World

Online Only $30,860 $30,860 £ 15,747 €19,910 $30,860

Print + Online $35,489 $35,993 £ 18,557 €23,463 $36,245

Print Only $30,860 $31,364 £ 16,133 €20,398 $31,616

Journal of Comp. Neurology

I.F. = 3.808

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Nature

Print (51 issues):Personal: £135

Postdoc: £89

Student: £79

I.F. = 36.280

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1963

• Articles freely given by authors for publication

• Published by many small scholarly societies

• Not for profit

2013

• Articles freely given by authors for publication

• Published by a very few commercial publishers

• Research generated at public expense is viewed as a commercially exploitable commodity

The Changed Character of Scholarly Communication

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Big Publishers are doing well: Profits posted for 2012.

• Elsevier: Profit: £724 Million (36% of £2 Bn. revenue)• Springer: Profit: £294 Million (34% of £0.8 Bn.)• John Wiley: Profit: £106 Million (42% of £0.25 Bn.)• Informa Plc: Profit: £47 Million (32% of £0.14 Bn.)

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Enter Open Access

• Free, immediate, permanent access to research for use, downloading and distribution.

• 2 Approaches• Free, online journals

(published by small scholarly societies)

• Institutional Repositories

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Copyright

• Authors of preprints hold the copyright to them

Publisher OA Policies on Copyrighthttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Publisher O.A. Policies

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Open Access Benefits

• Promotion of institutions, research groups.• Cross-fertilization between disciplines• Access for non-academic users ( e.g. policy makers )• Citation advantage

Steve Lawrence (2001)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Eysenbach, G. (2006)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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A Look at WIT’s Repository

http://repository.wit.ie/

Repository Birthdays

NUIM, May 2002

Trinity, March 2006

DCU, June 2006

Waterford IT, Feb 2007

UCD, August 2007

DIT, May 2008

U.Limerick, May 2008

RCSI, Nov 2008

HRB, Dec 2008

HSE, Dec 2008

UCC, March 2009

NDLR, Jan 2010

DCU, March 2010

U. Ulster, Nov 2010

Marine Institute, March 2011

Dublin Bus. Sch., March 2012

NUIG, July 2012

Teagasc, August 2012

Repository Birth Dates in Ireland

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Software

Dspace (9) TCD, UL, UCC, NDLR, DBS, Marine Inst., NUIG, Teagasc, HSE

Fedora (1) UCD

Eprints (5) Maynooth, WIT, DCU, HRB, DKIT,

Digital Commons

(2)DIT, RCSI

• Emails• Information Sessions• Flyers• Video• Institutional Website – RSS Feeds• Twitter • Data entry• Statistics

Promotion Efforts

Promotion Efforts

The Big Challenge

• Researchers are:– Comfortable with tried and tested forms of

scholarly communication– They already have their ‘social’ networks

Current Focus• Working closely with the Research

Office– Gathering of references from institute staff

for inclusion in ‘Research Matters’– Creation of an easy to use deposit form on

institutional website– Institutional Open Access Mandate

Promotion Efforts

Institutional Mandates

• DIT• Trinity• Maynooth

Funder Mandates OA Policies on Copyrighthttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/

Funder Mandates

Funder Mandates

IRELAND• HRB (position statement)• SFI • HEA• Irish Research Council

EUROPE• European Commission• European Research Council• CERN

• Portal for all Irish Repositories• Standardised Metadata

(Qualified Dublin Core)• Only harvests Open Access and

Peer-Reviewed articles

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National Aggregator: RIAN

Aggregators/Harvesters

(Now Incorporates DARE)

ResearchScope.ie

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European Aggregator: Open Aire

“an electronic infrastructure and supporting mechanisms for the identification, deposition, access, and monitoring of FP7 and ERC funded articles”

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