Libraries as Knowledge Infrastructure of the 21st century: the role of Libraries in the future of Research and Higher Education
Dr Paul AyrisPresident of LIBER [email protected]
European Commission, Brussels23rd September 2013
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WORKING AT SCALE
LIBER has members in each member state
400+ members in total
LIBER Strategy - http://www.libereurope.eu/strategy Is built on Research support Does not attempt to replicate institutional Strategies Adds value by providing a pan-European Strategy layer 3 Key Performance Areas Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructures Reshaping the Research Library Advocacy and Communications
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTIONALREGIONAL/NATIONAL LIBER
OA Policy positions across Europe UK Finch Report set the UK policy position
- See http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/ - Recommended a clear policy direction in the UK
towards support for ‘Gold’ open access publishing- Opposed by the research-intensive universities- £100 million will go to publishers over 5 years- No real attempt by Finch or RCUK to protect the UK
research community from escalating publishing costs
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT: Case Study
INSTITUTIONALREGIONAL/NATIONAL LIBER
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT: European Case Study
INSTITUTIONALREGIONAL/NATIONAL LIBER
49 mandatory policies in ROARMAP
Type Number
Green OA mandate 36
Green OA mandate with Gold option 12
Gold preference with Green option 1
Gold costs can be paid from research grant or claimed from funder = 19
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT: European Case Study
For an individual institutional policy, Green is the only affordable practical option
JISC Report by John Houghton and Alma Swan – Going for Gold
See http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/610
RESOURCING: UK library block grants as a % on institutional spend
2011-12 UCL EDIN IC KCL UMAN OXFD
Block grant to Library £ 14,990,928 12,700,718 9,536,941 12,067,047 17,958,780 38,850,503
Total institutional expenditure £ 843,425,000 659,913,000 702,049,000 522,707,000 758,157,000 971,831,000
% 1.78 1.92 1.36 2.31 2.37 4.00
All Libraries Block Grant £ 376,812,618Total institutional expenditure £ 28,881,371,655
% 1.30
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OPPORTUNITIES
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DART-Europe research theses portal DART-Europe portal Access to 418,896 open access research theses from
541 Universities, in 27 European countries
Discovery and retrieval by end-users
Data Service feeding other discovery systems
Marketing tool by university Graduate Schools
To aid selection by student of where to study
Early European Books
Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.
Complements EEBO – Early English Books Online
Early European Books
Contributing LIBER LibrariesDet Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library, Copenhagen)Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di FirenzeKoninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)The Wellcome Library, London
Early European Books
The St Andrews Universal Short Title Catalogue project (USTC) will create one of the most powerful resources ever envisaged for the study of book and print culture, providing a complete survey of all printed books – at least 350,000 editions – published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth centuryhttp://www.ustc.ac.uk/
Cheryl LaGuardia, Library Journal, 04/01/2010:When completed, EEB is going to fulfil the dreams of scholars around the world. A natural complement to EEBO, this is essential for every library supporting scholarly humanities research.
The CERL Thesaurus contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, personal names and corporate names found in found in Early Modern printed books, including variant spellings, forms in Latin and other languages, and pseudonyms.http://www.cerl.org
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Research Data
http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/policy/projects/sape/2012-06-20-SAOE.pdf
Research Data: 10 Recommendations for Libraries
1. Offer research data management support. 2. Engage in the development of metadata and data standards and services.
3. Create Data Librarian posts and develop professional staff skills for data librarianship.
4. Participate in institutional policy development.
5. Liaise with researchers to create interoperable data infrastructures.
6. Support the lifecycle for research data via service provision
7. Promote research data citation by applying persistent identifiers to data.
8. Create an institutional Data Catalogue/Repository
9. Get involved in subject specific data management practice.
10. Offer or mediate storage with institutional and/or external providers.
http://www.libereurope.eu/news/ten-recommendations-for-libraries-to-get-started-with-research-data-management
Research Data
Research Data
ODE Data Publication Pyramid
Research Data
7 roles for Libraries in Data Management
Availability Making data available and providing search services
Findability Support for best practice in managing data
Interpretability Provision of, and training in, metadescriptions
Usability Advice on subject archives and licences for re-use
Citability Best practice in citations, use of Persistent Identifiers
Curation Curation, and provision of training
Preservation Advocacy for good data management practices and archiving
Research Data
LIBER Survey on the ODE Recommendations for Libraries in Research DataThe biggest gap between demand and supply was for support in the creation of data management plans, with only 19% of libraries providing support in this area
Publication Fund management
JISC Collections trialling a shared service to UK universities
OAK will manage OA funds held in universities
And payments for APCs for Gold OA publishing
Need is for automated tools and workflow management, both for researchers and for libraries administering funds
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LERU and the European Researcher
LERU Roadmap, including support from LIBER, was produced in 2011
Advocates a balanced approach between Green and Gold OA
Most LERU universities more comfortable with Green than Gold
LERU Roadmap for Research Data approved in principle in September 2013; signoff in November at LERU General Assembly
UCL’s digital library provision
Learning Satisfaction Online Library
UCL RGI (mean)
International 91.80% 91.27%
Home 93.57% 92.27%
Overall 92.65% 91.94%
Traditional role of resource provision continues Even in an Open Access world
National and International Student Barometers, Summer 2012
Overlay journals system developed
Full-text resides in UCL Discovery and the overlay layer for presentation uses OJS
Partnership between UCL Library Services and academic Departments
Service will be promoted to UCL in 2013-14
See Slovo from UCL SSEES postgraduates at http://ojs.lib.ucl.ac.uk/index.php/Slovo 31
University publishing
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Access to centrally-maintained journal management software o Ease of useo Optionally, supports a range of journal management functionso Supports rolling publication, if desirable
Use of UCL Discovery for storage and dissemination o High visibility of articleso Stable URLso Customisable download of reportso Access to repository tools for dissemination, embedding
Support from UCL Library Services in a range of areas including OJS configuration, repository upload, formats, encoding, rights and licensing
Long-term hosting and digital preservation
University publishing: Benefits
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Conclusions
Saint Jerome in his Study, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480. Church of Ognissanti, Florence
Traditional role of research libraries as collectors of content continues
Challenges to working at scale across Europeo LIBER can provide focus for this activity
New roles for libraries as research infrastructureo By being embedded in research
workflowo Leading on Open Access to
Publications and Research Data Management
o Managing funds for OA publication and dissemination
o Library as publisher
Thanks for listening
Questions?
