Growing Repositories The role of advocacy and support in growing repositories and achieving the DRIVER vision

Bill Hubbard

SHERPA Manager, University of Nottingham

DRIVER Summit, Goettingen, January 2008

Growing Repositories

• Different countries have proved that working repositories can be built and that repository networks can be put together

• The future challenge is to encourage every country to participate and to move beyond local networks to a European Vision

• Experience has shown that effective advocacy, support and promotion is essential in achieving take-up of repository systems

Vision of European repositories

Needs• Functioning national networks of repositories• Engagement of stakeholders• Permissive legal environment• Technical capabilities & systems• Organisation of use and development

Vision of European repositories

Needs• Functioning national networks of repositories• Engagement of stakeholders• Permissive legal environment• Technical capabilities & systems• Organisation of use and development

. . . each of these areas needs active advocacy

Functioning national networks of repositories

• SHERPA (JISC & CURL)• DARE (SURF)• HAL• German Repositories and DINI

• Extension to other countries in the EU– make the case - build - integrate - develop - organise

How DRIVER advocacy is helping• Promotion of Open Access and repositories• Information on repository establishment• Information on forming national networks• Bringing together key contacts• Focus for repository development in a country• Advice for advocates, developers, agents of

change

Functioning national networks of repositories

Engagement of Stakeholders

• Academic authors• Academic researchers• Librarians and information professionals• Senior institutional administrators• Funding agencies

Engagement of Stakeholders

How DRIVER advocacy is helping• Information sheets for different stakeholders• Website addresses different stakeholder needs• Speaking and presence at stakeholder

conferences• Advice on advocacy and materials for local

agents to use with local stakeholders

Legal Environment

• Permission to archive– publishers’ permissions - RoMEO

– contract amendment - Zwolle Group, SPARCEurope

• Direction to archive– funding bodies requiring open access

– public access to publicly funded research

• Complex cross-European environment• Stakeholders - particularly authors - need clarity,

reassurance and service-level assistance

Legal Environment

How DRIVER advocacy is helping• Promoting information and services• Promoting policy development with national and

international funders• Advising on development of services for authors

within repositories

Technical capabilities

• Data Providers– Well served by Open Source and commercial repository

software for basic repositories

• Service Providers– Third parties building on capabilities of repository

infrastructure

• Need co-ordinated advice and development paths for Data Providers

• Need exemplar services to demonstrate benefits of repository materials

Technical capabilities

How DRIVER is helping:• DRIVER developing enhanced technical

capabilities for repository infrastructure• DRIVER is promoting standardisation of quality-

assessed guidelines for repositories• DRIVER is developing test-bed exemplars of

services built on repository materials• DRIVER is promoting these developments to

users

Organisation

• National organisations– SHERPA, DARE, HAL, UKCoRR, etc

• International groups– Software Users’ Group, academic disciplines

• Need for focus for development in each country• Need for self-organisation in each country• Need for pan-European forum for development

Organisation

How DRIVER advocacy is helping:• Providing focus for national development

through establishing contact networks• Supporting development of national

organisations through advice and case-studies

• DRIVER is providing a pan-European organisational framework for administrative, technical and advocacy development

Recommendations

• Institutions set up repositories and form local networks for support

• Local advocacy to engage stakeholders• Encourage supportive mandates and policies• Adopt DRIVER technical guidance in development• Contact DRIVER to take part in pan-European

organisation

Support is available

• For more information

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info@driver-support.eu

Bill Hubbard

SHERPA Manager

bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk

http://www.driver-community.eu/

http://www.driver-support.eu/en

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