DAEDALUS -An ePrints Case Study

William J NixonService Development

Susan AshworthAdvocacy

The Catalyst of Crisis

• Crisis in Scholarly Communication• Alternative Publishing Models and the

push for self-archiving• Pressure on Library budgets, especially

in STM areas• Other projects had looked at other

solutions - e.g. GAELS and collaboration

Context

Create Change at Glasgow

• Create Change event in April 2002• 40 Academics attended • Issues gained momentum at GU• Range of solutions discussed

– Self-archiving– New Journals

Create Change screenshot

DAEDALUS

• Part of the FAIR Programme• Partner with the CURL SHERPA Project• Evolved from the implementation of our

eprints service• Two strands

– Advocacy– Service Development

Issues we will explore

• Cultural– Encouraging use

• Organisational– IPR and copyright– Plagiarism

• Technical– Standards and formats

Advocacy

• Advocacy Remit• Our Strategies• Issues identified by academics

The Major issues are NOT technical

Remit

• to create an Open Access culture• to gather content for the range of Open

Archives services• to provide advice on policy implications,

guidelines and processes of the services• to formulate an exit strategy that ensures

a full and fully used service

Strategies at Glasgow

• Project Board including an academic from each of three territorial subject groups

• Contacting those academics who are already self-publishing

• Taking over departmental publications databases (RAE)

Strategies cont….

• Raising debate within departments - programme of attending departmental meetings

• Regional meetings, possible subject based, in collaboration with other FAIR projects

• Attempting to get strategic decisions at a high level within the University e.g. on submission of theses

Assistance for Staff

• Focus for publisher copyright policies• Range of repositories• Mediated submission service

– Record enhancement – File conversion

Project RoMEO

• FAIR Project• Investigating the Rights Issues of Self-

Archiving - central issue for researchers• Range of Questionnaires

– Author– Data Provider– Service Provider

RoMEO Screenshot

Concerns

• None• Plagiarism• Commercial gain• Integrity of the work will be compromised• That no journal will subsequently publish it• That it will break existing copyright

agreements with publishers

-From Project RoMEO Author Questionnaire

• Who benefits?• Operational matters• Document formats and Copyright• Collection policy• Quality control

Other Concerns

Service Development

• Published papers / ePrints• Pre-prints, grey literature, technical

reports, working papers• Doctoral theses• Research Finding Aids• Administrative Documents• Search service

Complementary Resource

The University of Glasgow ePrints repository will exist, not in competition with the subject based archives, which are already established but rather as a complementary Institutional resource.

Eprints.org

• Developed at the Electronics and Computer Science Department of the University of Southampton.

• ePrints version 2.0 now launched• We are currently running 1.1.1

eprints.org was previously supported by CogPrints, funded by JISC as part of its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme.

ePrints at Glasgow

ePrints Record

DSpace

• Development driven by Academics at MIT

• Freely available from November 2002• Digital Preservation component• Devolved model• Cambridge• Installation begins January 2003

DSpace at MIT

E-Theses

• Virginia Tech software• Complementary and voluntary• Strong Faculty support• Partners with:

Theses Alive! and E-Theses Project

OAI Theses Catalog

Field of Dreams Principle

If we build it, will you come?- Kevin Costner (after W.P. Kinsella)

http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus