Open Access Where are we so far?
Bill Hubbard
SHERPA Project Manager
University of Nottingham
Open Access
 Giving anyone online free, unrestricted access to
research information
 Increases citations and use for authors
 Increases profile for institutions
 Publically funded research made publically available
 Open Access Repositories
 Open Access Journals
Institutional Repositories
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Take in articles from staff in any subject-discipline
Simple - very simple - metadata created
Metadata harvested from repositories worldwide
User searches metadata records to locate specific
article
 Rapid, global, “free” dissemination
Building the network
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Repositories need to be in place
Procedures for filling them defined
Legal and IPR issues clarified
Publicity and advocacy to *all* stakeholders
Services - like search - built on top
Initiatives and Policies
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JISC FAIR programme
JISC Digital Repositories Programme
OSI initiatives
Berlin Declaration
Scottish Open Access Declaration
House of Commons Select Committee
NIH policy
Welcome Trust Policy
RCUK policy
Responses
 Academics
– favourable reaction, but few archiving all their work
 Administrators
– cautiously favourable, with growing enthusiasm
– further use - eg RAE
 Publishers – ALPSP, Publishers Association - concerns for publishers’
stability
– Embargoes
– “Open Choice”, hybrids, attempts at redefinition, et al
 Libraries . . .
Implications
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What time-scale are we looking at?
Libraries will continue to adopt a decentralised service
Journals are not going to disappear
Interlibrary loan may diminish for some items
RAE will be affected
Books largely unaffected - by this, anyway
Overall - who is likely to do the work?
Curation and provision of information will remain, with
new developments
How we are involved
 Repositories in the University
– Nottingham EPrints - http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/
– Nottingham ETheses - http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk/
– Nottingham MLPA - http://mlpa.nottingham.ac.uk/
 Departmental web-sites
 Advocacy and information
 Nottingham’s involvement with various projects
Projects involving Nottingham
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SHERPA
SHERPA Plus
SHERPA DP
SHERPA/RoMEO
Knowledge Bank
OpenDOAR
EThOS
IRS
potential projects DRIVER and PLANET
SHERPA partners & repositories
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Birkbeck
Birmingham
Bristol
British Library
Cambridge
Durham
Edinburgh
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Glasgow
Imperial
Leeds
LSE
Kings College
Newcastle
Nottingham
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Oxford
Royal Holloway
Sheffield
SOAS
UCL
York
AHDS
SHERPA - practical outcomes
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establishing an archive
populating an archive
copyright
advocacy & changing working habits
mounting material
maintenance
preservation
concerns . . .
SHERPA Plus
 2 year project to July 2007 for national support
 advocacy strategies and material for the further
population of existing repositories
 resources, information and advice for all institutions
wanting to establish repositories
 support for repository-level, institutional and national
policy development
 review and analysis of extending repository holdings
with datasets, multimedia, grey literature, learning
objects and other content types
Population
Extension
Repository
Development
Policies
Advocacy
SHERPA Plus
Establishment
Support
Representation
Strategies
Resources
Information
Analysis
SHERPA DP
 2 year project to December 2006
 use OAIS model to develop a persistent preservation
environment for SHERPA
 explore use of METS as metadata framework
 protocols for a working preservation service
 extend the storage layer of repository software with
Open Source extensions
 “Digital Preservation User Guide”
SHERPA/RoMEO
 Provides global service (and needs continual updating)
 Development and Knowledge Bank . . .
 www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
OpenDOAR
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18 month project to August 2006
survey of Open Access Repositories
registry of Open Access Repositories
for third party service providers . . .
for end users . . .
EThOS
 Major national project
 Universities of Glasgow, Cranfield, Birmingham,
Warwick, Southampton, Edinburgh, Robert Gordon;
British Library, National Library of Wales, SHERPA
 Developing the British Library’s theses service
 Examining centralised and distributed theses
provision
Other projects . . .
 IRS
 DRIVER
 PLANET
Summary
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Open Access initiatives now have good momentum
Recognition at senior levels
Policy development now happening
Publishers still uncertain
Academics incrementally adopting archiving practice
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk
bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk