JISC eScience All Hands Meeting

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

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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)

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UK Repositories
Data from OpenDOAR
Map generated by Repository 66
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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

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http//depot.edina.ac.uk
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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

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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

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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

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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
• Doesnt 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

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Put it in the Depot

• Contact EDINA for more information
• edina_at_ed.ac.uk
• Tel [phone]

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• Gareth J Johnson
• gareth.johnson_at_nottingham.ac.uk