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Maynooth’s ePrints & eTheses archive

Health Sciences Libraries Group

Suzanne Redmond Maloco

s.redmondmaloco@nuim.ie

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ContentsWhat is an “Institutional Repository” (IRs)?

Irish approach to IRs.

What are ePrints?

The setup?

Why the Library?

Maynooth’s experience?

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GlossaryMetadata:

Structured information about resources, the most common operation is discovery and retrieval.

OAI: (Open Archives Initiative)Is an initiative to develop and promote

interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.

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Institutional Repositories

• Online database of eprints

• Maintained by an organisation or institution

• Freely accessible to the public

• Linked through international research networks using “Open Archives Initiative”

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Irish Approach to IRs

Irish Universities Association Librarians IR Working Group

Remit:

to make recommendations on both the foundation of local IRs and on [Irish] national structures.

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Irish Approach to IRsSIF funding – 3 year planProject Objectives (increase profile & visibility)Project Deliverables (7 IRs)National PortalResources & FinancePartners

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“The Maynooth experience”

Project Manager: Suzanne Redmond Maloco (Library Systems)

Software support: David Cahill (6 month work placement student)

Server support: Jason Doran (Computer Centre)

Damien Gallagher (Library Systems)

Policy Advisors: Agnes Neligan (Librarian)

Helen Fallon (Deputy Librarian)

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Library Strategic Plan2006-2008

Mission statement

“To provide high quality library and information services in support of the teaching, learning and research objectives of the university by developing a library for the early 21st century through its own collections and through access to worldwide resources in both print and electronic formats.”

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What are “ePrints”?

•Pre and post print research papers made available online by their authors.

•They may be journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, theses, technical reports or any other form of research output.

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The Server

Dell powerEdge 2850

Setup of Server

RedHat Enterprise Release 4 ApacheMySQL Perl (DBI modules)

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The software

Eprints software was developed at the University of Southampton by Stevan Harnad and Christopher Gutteridge First released in 2001Version 2.3.13.1Designed for maintaining OAI compliant ePrint archives                  

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The role of the LibraryAdvocacy

Encouraging

Advising

Converting material (pdf, txt, ??)

Depositing material

Quality control

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CopyrightJournal policies

Needs to be handled on a case-by-case basis

Preprints not a problem as author owns copyright

Most publishers are now seeing “ePrints” as an electronic resource

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/intpub.html Stevan Harnad: For Whom the Gate Tolls?

How and Why to Free the Refereed Research LiteratureOnline Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving, Now

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My Bible! http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Sherpa: Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access

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Journal Policies

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Publishers

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So what do the colours mean?

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How to add to archive

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