The Open EcosystemIssues and challenges for Institutional Repositories

H Anil KumarLibrarian, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

INFLIBNET, January 31, 2014

OUTLINE

• IR@VSL• The Ecosystem of OA• Why we need IRs?• Importance of IRs• Issues and Challenges• Suggestions on Shodhganga and way forward

IR in 2010

After 3 years…

Technical DetailsEarlier Currently

Dspace 1.5.1 (later to 1.8.1)

Operating System: FedoraJava: 1.5.Maven: 2.0.8Ant: 1.6.2Apache Tomcat: 6.0PostgreSQL: 8.1

DSpace : 3.2

Operating System: CentOSJava : 1.7.0_45Maven : 3.1.1Ant : 1.9.2Apache Tomcat : 7.0.47PostgreSQL : 9.3

• Migration issues– Existing backup of database– Customized files (layout, email etc)– Metadata– Cron job

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Full Text Resources Bibliography Only

Thesis and Dissertation (291) Books (480)

Working Papers (2028) Book Chapters (875)

Annual Reports (48) Journal /Magazine articles (2629)

News Paper Clippings (195) Monographs (388)

Conference Proceedings (130) Research Projects (855)

Video Archives (1) Cases and notes (2262)

Student Projects (0) Newspaper Articles [749]

Repository Contents

Discovery Search

Metadata customization

Video Archives

Future Plan

• Up gradation to New Version (4.0)• Video Archives• Individual Author Page• Harvesting data from other IIMs• Student Projects

The Ecosystem of OA

• Open Society• Open Government• Open Institutions• Open Access• Open Data• Open Source• Open Scholarship• Open Publishing• Open Peer Review• Open Education• Open Talent

www.opensocietyfoundations.org/

www.opengovpartnership.org

http://www.openscholarship.org

okfn.org/opendata/

https://index.okfn.org/

http://www.openscholar.org.uk/open-peer-review/

http://www.peerageofscience.org/

• The proportion of the UK’s total annual research output that was available through open access in 2012 was about 40%, compared to a worldwide average of 20%.

• The latest data from the UK Open Access Implementation Group shows that 35% of the UK’s total research outputs are freely provided through Green, through an existing network of more than 200 active institutional and disciplinary repositories

• Inevitable • All agree that it is needed but….funding!• Unsustainable subs

Serials expenditures have been rising at approximatelytriple the rate of the consumer price index over this time

Current business model in the scholarly publishing

• Currently, public funds are used three times in the research process– to pay the academics who conduct the research– to pay the salaries of the academics who conduct the peer review process– to pay for access to this research through institutional journal subscriptions

• UK HE libraries – More than £150m subscriptions annually – Yet cannot afford to access all the research that is needed

• Are we being charged more or less than another – No idea– The power to negotiate is driven down

• There is mounting concern that the financial benefits from the Government’s substantial investment in research are being diverted to an excessive degree into the pockets of publishers’ shareholders.

Why do we need IRs?

• Archiving Need• Current emphasis on research (doctoral,

publishing, etc)• Cost of accessing other research• Improve quality of our research• Access a credible network of Indian

researchers and their research

Why is it important?

• Showcasing academics• Overall improvement of academic culture• Facilitates Collaboration• Transparency of outcomes• Better Ranking of institution• Facilitates evaluation of collections• Demand for ‘India Context’ research• Changing metrics of impact or use of research

Issues and challenges

• Technology• Preservation• Impact on scholarship• Content: Data vs Analysis• Institutional and National Policies• Discoverability and search• Integration with other resources• Copyright• Metrics of usage

Suggestions on Shodhganga

Language

The Next Steps• Populating the repository with more Content• Search, discovery and Usability

– Integrating different formats, Conversion to formats, Data in excel– Enable Discovery

• Sharing – Referencing, Book marking, Lists– Social media linkages

• Value adds– Networking and collaboration– Researcher ID - unique– Research topics, trends, etc – Metrics – usage– Videos of Defense– Publishing– Tutorials on how to upload / search, etc

• Current Ongoing Research Expertise (CORE) – current doctoral scholars• Bank of Indian Research Data (BIRD)• Next level – taking Shodhganga to the World

– Jstor???Proquest???

THANKS

anilkumar@iimahd.ernet.in