KE General Presentation June 2009
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Introduction: The Knowledge Exchange initiative, its vision and achievements Speaker: Knowledge Exchange Steering Group member Dr. Marjan Vernooy (SURFfoundation)
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KE General Presentation June 2009
- 2. Brussels, 22 June 2009 Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (Denmark) German Research Foundation (DFG) (Germany) Joint Information Systems Committee (United Kingdom) SURFfoundation is part of SURF (Netherlands) Shared aim: innovative use of ICT to support education and research Who is Knowledge Exchange (KE)?
- 8. Thank you! Brussels, 22 June 2009
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- Good morning ladies and gentlemen, The 3 national studies about Costs and benefits of OA to Knowledge Information are brought together by Knowledge Exchange. That’s precisely what we do in KE, upscale national initiatives to a higher level. In the coming minutes I would like to tell you something about Knowledge Exchange.
- Knowledge Exchange is an initiative started in 2005 as an collaboration between four national organisations. After the first three year period, the partners decided to extend the collaboration for a further three years, so we are certain to proceed until 2012 DEFF Denmark's Electronic Research Library (DEFF) is an partnership between research libraries. DEFF's purpose is to advance the development of a network of electronic research libraries that make their electronic and other information resources available to their patrons in a coherent and simple way. This is obtained partly through government funding and partly by joint purchase of licenses. The Danish National Library Authority runs the secretariat of the partnership. DFG The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) is the central, self-governing research funding organisation that promotes research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions in Germany. The DFG serves all branches of science and the humanities by funding research projects and facilitating cooperation among researchers. It is also responsible in facilitating the research infrastructure and research libraries. JISC JISC is an abbreviation for Joint Information Systems committee. This organisation is funded by Higher Education and Further Education funding bodies in the United Kingdom. It is directed at providing world-class leadership in the innovative use of ICT to support education and research. This is undertaken in 16 programmes supporting many projects. JISC also supports 49 Services that provide expertise, advice, guidance and resources to address the needs of all users in HE and FE. SURFfoundation SURFfoundation unites research universities, universities of applied sciences, and research institutions in The Netherlands. All these institutions collaborate on innovative projects to improve the quality of higher education and research. SURFfoundation initiates, orchestrates and drives innovation in ICT through knowledge-sharing, incentive programmes, and partnerships. (I, Marjan Vernooy, work at SURFfoundation in the department focusing on research infrastructure. I am also the steering group member for KE from the Netherlands keeping track of the KE activities and initiatives.) Although the four organisation might come from different backgrounds, we share a common goal. We all seek to improve the quality of education and research by innovative use of ICT in Higher education and research,
- Although the four organisation might come from different backgrounds, we share a common goal. This is the vision that Knowledge Exchange is working on: ‘ To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the internet’ To achieve this vision we have chosen to direct our energies at: Not just building a repository infrastructure, but also to work towards integrating this. The digital age is making the Open Access to research output possible, this does require a different approach to publishing. The Houghton studies are a result of this effort. The benefits that Knowledge Exchange expects to achieve with this vision are: For learners and practitioners: free access to a diverse range of high quality learning materials For researchers: Online access to collaboration tools and research resources, including the very latest data and research findings For institutions: The ability to effectively manage their information resources and technologies For governments and national funding organisations: An aid to lifelong learning.
- We attempt to achieve these goals by getting persons at various levels in the four partner organisations to know each other and exchange knowledge, Hence the term ‘Knowledge Exchange’ We expected this to offer benefits to the initiatives taking place in the four countries and increase our return on investment. So we are working towards Knowledge Exchange, not only between the partner organisations (first bullet) But we also a free flow of knowledge by improving the access to scholarly and research materials. (second bullet) This free flow of knowledge requires a virtual environment which will facilitate it. We are working on technologies required to create the infrastructure needed (third bullet) --------- Knowledge Exchange is founded on an agreement between four partner organisations, to collaborate for a period of three years (2005 – 2008), in an effort to improve the digital infrastructure for information and communication technology as it relates to the research and university library sectors. Knowledge Exchange enables all four partner organisations to combine their strengths and speak with one voice. The four Knowledge Exchange partner organisations are: Denmark’s Electronic Research Library ( DEFF) in Denmark German Research Foundation (DFG) in Germany, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United KingdomSURFfoundation in the NetherlandsThe Knowledge Exchange organisation The Knowledge Exchange organisation consists of the Knowledge Exchange Steering Group which is composed of representatives from each of the four partner organisations and the KE Group with designated partner representatives from the sponsoring organisations, and a co-ordinating office located at the Danish Agency for Libraries and Media in Copenhagen, Denmark. Vision and goals The agreed vision for Knowledge Exchange is: To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet. The goals that have been set to achieve that vision include: Building an integrated repository infrastructure Exploring new developments in the future of publishing Facilitating integrated management services within education and research institutions Supporting the European digital libraries agenda.Knowledge Exchange aims to foster co-operation and collaboration between the four partner organisations in order to:Add genuine value to currently funded activities Increase returns on investment in ICT Improve infrastruture in the partner countriesEnhance shared knowledge and collaboration possibilities Improve the quality of learning, teaching and researchFor more information and updates please contact: Knowledge Exchange Danish Agency for Libraries and MediaH.C. Andersens Boulevard 2 DK-1553 Copenhagen V Denmark Telephone +45 3373 3315 E-mail office@knowledge-exchange.info www.knowledge-exchange.info
- So how does this work in practice? Each partner regularly shares their progress through a partner representative. By keeping in touch we can easily pick up the common ground. We exchange reports, findings and studies and, if relevant, we commission studies which are relevant to the four countries. This report is a nice example. Annually the strategic management meets to compare their strategies and realign the initiatives taking place within Knowledge Exchange. In order to collect the expert knowledge, we bring together experts not only from our four organisations, but also from other organisations in our countries but also beyond these borders. These workshops prove to be very valuable and can often spark off initiatives which otherwise may have taken a lot longer to get underway. Knowledge Exchange is not a funding body though, and it is up to the four partners to adopt projects. The four partners are still independent and then choose to follow recommendations or take part in joint actions.
- We have brought together our experts in six thematis strand. The repositories working group has been very active right from the start and has initiated some valuable projects. They are now focusing on connecting the repositories and ensuring the exchange of information (for example usage statistics) and persistent retrieval of records (through the use of persistent identifiers). Libraries in the digital age is a younger group and is still in the phase of defining the role they can play in the discussion regarding the role of libraries. The licensing working group has initiated a call for tender for multinational licenses. This was a first for our countries, which only was possible through the collaboration in Knowledge Exchange. This has resulted in a series of four multinational licences which libraries can choose to buy. By working across our borders we have managed to achieve an economy of scale on the one hand and offering publishers a means of promoting materials (for example e-books) they would otherwise have more trouble getting to market. We are here this morning due to the hard work of the Open Access working group, a number of the members are present today. The various studies on the costs and benefits of Open Access were shared and coordinated in this group, though the studies were undertaken and funded in the separate countries. Rather than a technical perspective this group is directed at addressing the policy issues regarding the free flow of knowledge. Not only research publications should be freely accessible, but we also feel that there are great benefits to research, education, industry and society if research data would become more openly available on the internet. This raises questions on legal matters, technical and policy issues and the question regarding responsibility and funding. This is enough to keep this working group occupied. The last of the working groups is working on sharing the initiatives in the four countries on creating virtual research environments. These will support the collaboration and the exchange of materials between researchers and can form an integrated part of the whole research infrastructure.
- From the start of Knowledge Exchange back in 2005 we have undertaken various activities, only some of them are mentioned here: We offered the EU a petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results together with SPARC Europe, this was signed by over 20.000 people and presented to Janez Potocnik in February 2007 As I mentioned before the tender for multinational licences proved to be ground breaking and has attracted a lot of attention. This was set up using the EU tender process called Competitive Dialogue. The tender is underway and the licences are now being purchased by the libraries. An evaluation on the tender process will be available this Autumn. The institutional repositories workshop in Amsterdam in 2007 was a success in defining topics which are necessary to take repositories forward and improve the exchange of information within the research infrastructure. This has spawned a number of projects: The project on enhanced theses is now completed and has produced some valuable lessons on creating enhanced publications. The project on the collecting usage statistics is about to start and is aiming at collecting initiatives in this field (for example OApen, PEER, OAstatistik, PIRUS and Counter). We are not only attempting to collect the statistics, but also find a way to present these. We feel that this will provide a valuable tool in assessing the impact of research materials in an Open Access world. Whenever materials are moved on the internet this leaves us with dead links. We are now starting a project to assign materials with a persistent identifier service based on an URN:NBN based infrastructure. This will also include a number of parties from outside our four countries which have been working on this technology. We will also be commissioning a study on the legal issues regarding research data, as these regularly crop up in the four countries when working towards the sharing of research data. And as a final example: combining the findings from separate studies written by John Houghton for the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Denmark on the Costs and benefits of research communication.