OpenDOAR : the Directory of Open Access Repositories

The last year has seen wide-spread growth in the idea of using open access repositories as a part of a research institution's accepted infrastructure. Policy development from institutions and funding bodies has also supported the growth of the repository network. The next stage of expansion will be in the provision of services and cross-repository facilities and resources. Of course, it is hoped that these will then establish a feed-back loop to encourage repository population and further repository establishment, as the potential of open access to research materials is realised. The growth of repositories has been organic, with a variety of different repositories based in departments, institutions, funding agencies or subject communities, with a range of content, both in type and subject. Existing repositories are expanding their holdings, from eprints to associated research data-sets, or with learning objects and multimedia material. This presentation will look at the development of the Directory of Open Access Repositories, OpenDOAR, and the way we intend to clarify the overall picture of repositories and their holdings. In providing this information, OpenDOAR should act as a bridge between data providers and service providers in analysing and listing repositories and facilitate the interchange needed to establish services. It will look at OpenDOAR's place as one of a number of registers of open access sources and repository based services and the scope of its initial survey of repositories. OpenDOAR is intended to help repository administrators in providing a better service for their users and facilitating repository growth. We will be asking what help we can give to repository administrators and to service providers to facilitate the development of innovative services like search, access, analysis and linking of repository holdings

The COAR Notify Initiative

On January 28, 2021, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) launched the COAR Notify Initiative. The aim is to develop and accelerate community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralized approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of (data) repositories with resources from external service providers such as overlay-journals and open peer review services, using linked data notifications. In the presentation an overview will be provided with the technical challenges in current repositories and how decentralized solutions could have an impact on the current scholarly communication system. We will present the Event Notifications in Value-Adding Networks protocol which provides a network topology with data nodes and service nodes that inform each other about artifacts and services that are provisioned pertaining to artifacts. Using this protocol examples will be provided how this protocol can be used in various scholarly scenarios and relations with other projects that are implementing this protocol

The COAR Notify Initiative

On January 28, 2021, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) launched the COAR Notify Initiative. The aim is to develop and accelerate community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralized approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of (data) repositories with resources from external service providers such as overlay-journals and open peer review services, using linked data notifications. In the presentation an overview will be provided with the technical challenges in current repositories and how decentralized solutions could have an impact on the current scholarly communication system. We will present the Event Notifications in Value-Adding Networks protocol which provides a network topology with data nodes and service nodes that inform each other about artifacts and services that are provisioned pertaining to artifacts. Using this protocol examples will be provided how this protocol can be used in various scholarly scenarios and relations with other projects that are implementing this protocol

Araştırma Kurumları İçin OpenAIRE Kılavuzu

This text is transcript of OpenAIRE Guide which is prepared in order to help research institutions was released on 13.04.2011and translated with the cooperation of ANKOS Open Access and Institutional Repositories Grup members and OpenAIREplus project team of Turkey which is coordinated from Izmir Institute of Technology Library. OpenAIRE Project aims to support researchers in complying with the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme Open Access Pilot through a European Helpdesk System; support researchers in depositing their research publications in an institutional or disciplinary repository; build up an OpenAIRE portal and e-infrastructure for repository networks. The project will work in tadem with OpeanAIREplus Project which has the principal goal of creating a robust, participatory service for the cross-linking of peer-reviewed scientific publications and associated datasets

Facilitating Crosslinking Services in an Institutional Repository

In March 2020, Harvard Library launched a fast-tracking deposit program into DASH, the university’s institutional repository, in order to facilitate the rapid release of Harvard’s COVID-19 research. Over the course of the fast-tracking program, papers related to COVID-19 have seen over 400,000 downloads, with one paper having registered over 21,000 readers during its first four days in DASH. As part of the program, we also began linking research outputs together with their underlying datasets by collaborating with Harvard’s Dataverse. It soon became clear that crosslinking the metadata records is a valuable service opportunity regardless of the research topic or any fast-tracking programs, and so we began brainstorming ways to scale the crosslinking service using Linked Data Notifications. Enhancing discovery in this way doesn’t simply save users’ time. We also hope to encourage deeper exploration of the open-access scholarly resources Harvard researchers have made available to the public—and in such a way that is manageable for repository staff. In addition, we are building this feature with the global scholarly community in mind, choosing standard protocols over the bespoke, so that anyone can use our code to make similar enhancements to their own repositories. In this presentation, we will review our approach to crosslinking metadata records across repositories using Linked Data Notifications and will discuss our progress so far

Eprints and the Open Archives Initiative

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was created as a practical way to promote interoperability between eprint repositories. Although the scope of the OAI has been broadened, eprint repositories still represent a significant fraction of OAI data providers. In this article I present a brief survey of OAI eprint repositories, and of services using metadata harvested from eprint repositories using the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH). I then discuss several situations where metadata harvesting may be used to further improve the utility of eprint archives as a component of the scholarly communication infrastructure.Comment: 13 page

New wine in old bottles: current developments in digital delivery and dissemination

The purpose of this paper is to identify and assess current developments in scholarly publishing in Europe. Current models for disseminating content have limitations and Open Access models of publishing have been endorsed by the European Universities Association. The Harvard mandate for the deposit of materials in Open Access repositories is a bold new development, and the community is watching it with interest. It is possible that e-books may be the next large form of content to be made available to the user. Users certainly express interest in using this form of material. However, current library systems need to be developed in order to cope with this mass of new content. E-theses, available in Open Access from institutional repositories, are a form of content that is made much more visible than the paper equivalents. The DART-Europe portal, supported by LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) currently provides access to 100,000 research theses in 150 European Universities. At an institutional and academic level, however, much remains to be done to embed Open Access into the landscape: the current situation is described in a new report for UCL (University College London), produced by RAND Europe

Content repositories and social networking : can there be synergies?

This paper details the novel application of Web 2.0 concepts to current services offered to Social Scientists by the ReDReSS project, carried out by the Centre for e-Science at Lancaster University. We detail plans to introduce Social Bookmarking and Social Networking concepts into the repository software developed by the project. This will result in the improved discovery of e-Science concepts and training to Social Scientists and allow for much improved linking of resources in the repository. We describe plans that use Social Networking and Social Bookmarking concepts, using Open Standards, which will promote collaboration between researchers by using information gathered on user’s use of the repository and information about the user. This will spark collaborations that would not normally be possible in the academic repository context

OCRIS : online catalogue and repository interoperability study. Final report

The aims and objectives of OCRIS were to: • Survey the extent to which repository content is in scope for institutional library OPACs, and the extent to which it is already recorded there; • Examine the interoperability of OPAC and repository software for the exchange of metadata and other information; • List the various services to institutional managers, researchers, teachers and learners offered respectively by OPACs and repositories; • Identify the potential for improvements in the links (e.g. using link resolver technology) from repositories and/or OPACs to other institutional services, such as finance or research administration; • Make recommendations for the development of possible further links between library OPACs and institutional repositories, identifying the benefits to relevant stakeholder groups