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The Development of a Socio-technical
infrastructure to support Open Access
publishing through Institutional Repositories
Andrew Dorward
10th July, 2012
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UK RepositoryNet+ (RepNet)
What is RepNet ?
•a socio-technical infrastructure supporting deposit,
curation & exposure of Open Access research
literature.
What is its aim ?
•To increase the cost effectiveness of repositories of
such literature.
How will it do this?
•offering a sustained and well-used suite of services
that enable repositories to operate more cost
effectively
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Mapping the publishing
landscape …
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Funder, researchers, publishers and institutions…
Monograph
Teacher Article Journal
Reader
Author
Academics Publishers
P.I.
Subject
Repository Open
Access
Institutional
Repository
Funders
Repository
Research
Information
CRIS
Research
Awards
Management Library
Faculty
Institutions
Research
Grant
Funders Office
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Rich Picture: Actors, Agency & Relationships for Report, Deposit
& Access
Licensed/
teacher editor monograph
Academic Publisher tollgate
student referee access to
Publisher’s
researcher Final Copy
journal
(PFC)
P.I. author(s)
Subject
Deposit of metadata/text of Repository
SWORD
Authors’ Final Copy
(AFC)
Research Digital
UKPMC reader
metrics Library
Award EU
reporting
Eval
Research
Outcomes Institutional
NORA Repository
curation
CERIF
micro - services
UKCoRR
EU RCUK Wellcome
Trust stewardship budgets
ARMA
UK Research Library
Funder CRIS HEI
[OA mandate] Institution
Research Excellence Framework [OA mandate]
HEFCE, SFC …
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Sketch of UK RepositoryNet+ Infrastructure & Components
Funders’ Subject Institutional
Repositories Repositories Repositories
consumers
Service Support Service Desk Service Directory
hacks
…
Rapid
Innov.
Service components
/
…
…
curation …
Innovation micro-services hosted
remote
Zone UK RepositoryNet+ Production Environment
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Production, Failover & Development
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Helpdesk & Technical Support
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High-Level Plan
2011 2012 2013
Aug Oct Jan Apr Jul Oct Jan Mar
Other JISC Programmes (Open Access Implementation Group, Research Information Management, etc.)
Preparation:
JISC Service Portfolio Review
Stakeholder analysis
Functional requirements
Select components
Implementation: Wave One
Integrate components into a production environment
Sustainability business models
Implementation:
WaveTwo
Service enhancement
Integrate new components
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Web Site/Production Environment
http://www.repositorynet.ac.uk/
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Roadmap with functional areas
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Interactions with Innovation Zone
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Context, Scope and Focus
Open Access
Context Government policy
Funder mandates
Publisher practises
Gold OA – payment mechanisms
Scope Research data sets
Co-operation with Open AIRE
Executing SIPG Wave 1 business proposals
Focus
Data integration – working together
Identifying Wave 2 Services
RepNet products/services
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Context
• Government Policy
• David Willets: UK government “will make publicly funded research accessible
free of charge to readers. Giving people the right to roam freely over publicly
funded research will usher in a new era of academic discovery and
collaboration, and will put the UK at the forefront of open research.”
• Neelie Kroes (EC): 48 billion Euros for FP7 projects conditional on OA
publication in lead-up to horizon 2020 (PEER and Nordbib, June 2012)
• Finch Report – Gold OA recommended route to Open Access
• Funder Mandates
• RCUK write to University VCs in July mandating use of RoS and instructing to
use RIOXX guidelines for funder info
• Publisher Practises
• PEER end of project report - Large-scale EC-funded project (€4.2 million, 3
year, 9 months) to model impact of Green OA on STM publishers
• Green OA has positive impact on publisher downloads, Gold OA is preferred
business model
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Scope
• Gold OA Payment Mechanisms
• Currently do not exist – will be barrier to implementing Gold OA
• Cannot be entrusted to publishers
• Must be run by trusted middleware broker supported by UK/European FE
institutions
• Must be transparent to allow APCs to be governed by free market for
journals
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Scope - 2
• Research Data Sets
• Included within RIOXX guidelines, focus of Nordbib conference
• Mandated by NERC, ESPRC
• Future first step to create a registry of data sets
• OpenAIRE co-operation
• Projected MoU with RepNet as first step
• Very interested in more closely integrated set of RepNet Wave 1 for
DRIVER
• Interest in co-operation on Gold OA, Data sets Registry
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Focus
• Optimising wave 1 components
• SIPG executing business proposals
• Closer integration of existing services within data-driven infrastructure
• Comprehensive set of tools: Publisher, funder policies; deposit tools;
reporting, impact analysis tools
• Wave 2 service components - process
• Curation micro-services – in contact with U3C DCC
• JISC RI Call, JISC Elevator
• OR12 workshop
• OARR tender
• Search consultancy
• Advisory Board input
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Components for Wave 1
A: Aggregation, Text mining & Search D: Deposit Tools
Innovation Zone
REPUK RoMEO Wave 1
Innovation zone Juliet
CORE Wave 1
IRS Innovation Zone Open UI for OARJ
Depot
B: Benchmarking, Statistics and Report
RJBroker Wave 1
IRUS-UK Wave 1
C: Creating Relevant Registries E: Enhancing Metadata Quality
Open ITT - OARR NAMES2 Align with ORCID
DOAR
ITT - OARR
ROAR
ORI Wave 1
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Implementation Roadmap
2012 2013
Apr Jul Oct Jan Apr
Initial Production
Environment
ITIL Service Strategy
ITIL Service Portfolio
JISC Service Portfolio Review
Service Desk
Wave 1 Selection
Production Environment 2.0
Integrate Wave 1
(IRUS-UK, ROMEO, JULIET)
Enhance RJ-Broker, ORI
Wave 2 Selection
ITIL Lead Identification Guidance
ITIL Service Design Package
ITIL Operational Level Agreements Proto-service
ITIL Incident Management Process ITIL Service Acceptance Criteria
Enhance Service Desk ITIL Performance Monitoring
ITIL Problem Management Process ITIL Service Level Agreements
ITIL Release & Deployment Process ITIL Change Management Process
ITIL Service Continuity Process Service Hosting
(ROMEO/JULIET/RJBroker/ORI)
Wave 2 Integration
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Sustainability
• Individual sustainability plans submitted by
SIPG members
• Various business models: subscription,
voluntary contributions, payment for use of
data by commercial third parties
• Aim to have sustainability plan in place for
fully integrated service by March 2013
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Service Directory
Continual
Service
Improvement
Service Third-party
Design components
Market
Research RoMEO
Juliet Service
Service Retired
IRUS-UK Transition Operational services
Concepts Services
ORI
REPUK RJBroker
CORE
IRS
Innovation
Zone
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Wave 2 Candidates - current
• Curation micro-services
• Characterisation, Validation, Metadata Creation
• DROID (Digital Record Object identification)
• JHOVE – Java library to detect file formats Done by IR
• NLNZ metadata extractor software tools
• Identification
• Online registry on tech file formats –
• PRNOM, GDFR UDFR
• Migration and Transformation
• Complex, expensive, outwith scope, done elsewhere
• Devise policy
• Necessary if RepNet successful, IRs become central, post Wave 2
• Improving Metadata
• Bringing in DOIs from CrossRef
• Data-mining metadata from PDFs (Uni Novi Sad)
• OpenAIRE tools (GROBIT)
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Summary
• Wave 1 of RepNet provides an excellent service to support
Green and Gold Open Access
• Full range of deposit, reporting and policy tools in place
• Will justify JISC’s investment in IR infrastructure
• Move to data-driven infrastructure and closer integration
• Wave 2 to focus on micro-services
• Sustainability plan in progress to support transition from
project to service in March 2013
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