28th June 2014
ALA
Metadata Indicators for Open Access:
RIOXX and V4OA
Introducing Jisc
Jisc offers digital services for
UK education and research.
The charity does this to
achieve its vision for the UK
to be the most digitally
advanced education and
research nation in the world.
Jisc.ac.uk
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Overview
1. Brief background/overview
2. Overview of vocabularies for
open access (V4OA)
3. Overview of RIOXX
4. Implications of OA indicators and
connections to other initiatives
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Background
» Confusing landscape
» A number of key drivers:
› Finding research
› Tracking research outputs across systems
» Consistency is required on key metadata fields – RIOXX
Application Profile
» Agreement and consistency was required on vocabularies
(terms) being used within particular metadata fields. –
Vocabularies for Open Access (V4OA)
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The Aim of V4OA…
The intention is to establish an ongoing process by which
agreements can be reached on which standard
vocabularies will be used in particular circumstances in
the OA context, and to create a Web resource to act as a
focal point for these agreements.
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V4OA: Expert Advisory Panel
The project has benefited from the input of the following
organisations:
ALPSP, ARMA, COAR, CrossRef, Jisc, OASPA, PA/STM,
RCUK, RLUK, SCONUL, SPARC Europe, UKCoRR, UKSG
v4oa.net
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V4OA: Key Vocabularies
A focus on 4 key areas:
• Embargoes (Derive from Licence)
• Rights/Licences (LicenceRef)
• Open access identifier (NISO - Free to read
tag)
• Article Processing Charges (APCs)
• Versions (NISO)
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V4OA: Take-up
• V4OA outputs will be incorporated in RIOXX Metadata
Application profile – to meet UK research funder
requirements.
• EDItEUR / ONIX (for publishers and libraries)?
• CrossRef (for journals)?
• CASRAI (for research management systems)
• Other?
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V4OA: Benefits
• Improved metadata quality and consistency across key
information systems.
• Easier tracking of outputs across
scholarly systems
• Enable institutions and funders to
capture and assess the nature and
scale of Open Access ‘transactions’.
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RIOXX: Application Profile and Guidelines
• UK focused metadata initiative for research papers.
• Working with UK research funders (RCUK and
HEFCE) to align key metadata requirements to
support policy compliance
• Initial focus for RIOXX was to apply consistency for
project ID (grant number) and funder name.
www.rioxx.net
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RIOXX: Integration
• Next version release due end of July 2014
and V4OA outputs will be incorporated.
• Software plug-ins for EPrints and Dspace
will be developed. Repositories to
implement these in 2014/2015.
• Will be providing a support framework in
the UK for integration via Eprints, Dspace
and Fedora.
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RIOXX: Benefits
• Facilitates interoperability.
• Will support consistency for key
metadata fields to facilitate the
tracking of research outputs across
scholarly systems.
• Will facilitate reporting from
institutions to funders.
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Jisc Monitor
» Shared research reporting service focusing on priority
use-cases for researchers, institutions, funders and
publishers:
› Monitoring publication activity
› Collaboration: Standards development and
interoperability
› Funder mandate compliance
› Monitoring publication charges
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Further Information
» Rioxx: Rioxx.net
» V4OA: v4oa.net
» Jisc Monitor: http://jiscmonitor.jiscinvolve.org/
» CASRAI: casrai.org
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Find out more…
RIOXX : Paul Walk @ EDINA
p.walk@ed.ac.uk
V4OA : Sheridan Brown @
Chygrove Ltd
s.brown@keyperspectives.co.uk
Except where otherwise noted, this
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