1. Institutional Repositories and Open Access
Greg Tananbaum
President
The Berkeley Electronic Press
Society for Scholarly Publishing, June 2, 2005
Berkeley Electronic Press: Uniquely Positioned
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• Founded by UC Berkeley Professors
• frustrations as editors, authors, and reviewers
• technology can be developed to lower access barriers
•Commercial Publisher
• 25 peer-reviewed electronic journals
• quasi -open access model
• Software Developer
• editorial management software (EDIKIT) licensed by other
commercial publishers as well as open access journals
• leading institutional repository software
University of California’s eScholarship Repository
• Dozen research units in “first wave” (summer 2002)
• Grown to ~175 research units as of 5/05, with ~60 more queued to join
• Nearly 15% of research units have a presence; among the most
successful systemwide programs in the history of UC
• Over 1,400,000 full-text downloads (weekly average = 25K)
• Recent launch of peer-reviewed journals in environmental science and
education
**See http://repositories.cdlib.org for more details**
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2. “Next Generation” IRs: Digital Commons
• Launched q3 2004
• Berkeley Electronic Press technology and continuing development
• ProQuest customer support and account representation
• Integration with ProQuest’s historical content
• theses and dissertations
• postprints (including PubMed)
• Over two dozen adopters to date, including Penn, Boston College,
Cornell, and Columbia
**See http://www.umi.com/umi/digitalcommons for more details**
Observations of the OA & IR Movements
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• Where Do OA and IR Movements Overlap?
• both eliminate the costs associated with accessing scholarly
information
• both are made possible by the reduction in communication costs
the internet provides
• both shift those costs to other actors (OA = authors, IR = university
administration)
• Where do OA and IR Diverge?
• OA primarily focuses on peer-reviewed journals
• IR materials are primarily gray literature (working papers, rep orts,
etc.)
How IRs Expand Access to Information
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• New Life to Materials with a Limited or Nonexistent pre-IR Audience
• Example 1: departmental working paper series
• Example 2: conference proceedings
• Example 3: archival materials
• Example 4: non-static materials
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3. Institutional Repositories and Print Journals
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• University Presses: Embracing IRs as Alternative to Print
• many university presses operate at a loss
• institutional repositories can lower costs and increase readership
• faculty interested in launching new specialty journals being
directed to IRs first (e.g., Boston College’s Teaching Exceptional
Children Plus, University of California’s Opolis)
• Recent Development: Free Electronic Access via IR, Fee- Based Print
• balances desire to place journal content within framework of
university’s intellectual output and desire to retain traditional
benefits of print
• Cornell’s ILR Review: free access to book reviews and archives,
most recent issues free
• too early to tell how this hybrid model will impact journal stature,
readership, and revenue
Institutional Repositories and Postprints
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• What is a postprint?
• Why do universities want to include them in IRs?
• How does bepress technology support postprint harvesting?
• Legal and policy considerations
Institutional Repositories and Open Access
Questions?
Greg Tananbaum
greg@bepress.com
(510) 665-1200 extension 117
Society for Scholarly Publishing, June 2, 2005
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