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IISc ePrints Archive[Or, Institutional Repository]

T.B. RajashekarNational Centre for Science Information

Indian Institute of ScienceBangalore – 560 012

(E-Mail: [email protected])

Prepared for presentation in JPGM GoldCon International Conference, 23-26 September 2004, Mumbai

NCSI, IISc

T.B. RajashekarNCSI, IIScJPGM GoldCon, 23-26 Sept 2004

Routes to Open Access

Open Access Journals

Self-Archiving

IRsDisciplinary

Archives


• What is an IR?• Benefits• IISc IR• Copyright

concerns• Cross-Archive

search services

eprints@iisc: An IR Example


What is an IR?

• “An institutional repository is a digital archive of the intellectual product created by the faculty, research staff, and students of an institution and accessible to end users both within and outside of the institution, with few if any barriers to access.”

– The case for institutional repositories: A SPARC position paper. Release 1.0, 2002. http://www.arl.org/sparc


What is an IR? (2)

• Institution-based – service/ infrastructure• Capture and make accessible an

organization’s research output• Cumulative & perpetual• Open & interoperable• Formal extension of researchers’ interest

in using Internet for innovative dissemination of research findings


IR Contents• E-Version of one or more of the following:• Published/ peer-reviewed material

– Ex.: Journal papers (post-prints), book chapters, conference papers

• Unpublished/ gray material– Ex.: Pre-prints, working papers, theses and

dissertations, technical reports, progress/ status reports, committee reports, presentations, teaching material, audio/video clips, etc.

• Supporting material– Ex.: Data sets, models, simulations


How does an IR work?

• A repository server for hosting institutional research publications (ePrints) - metadata and full text

• Provide web interface for online submission of research publications by research staff (self-archiving)

• Provide open (online) access to the content (metadata and/ or full pub) on Internet

• Expose metadata for supporting inter-operability (OAI-compliance), cross-archive aggregation and searching services

• IR software is used for managing the repository and provision of access

Content Producers (Institutional)

Tech Report Conf. Paper Journal article, etc.

Institutional Research Output (self-archiving or mediated submission)

Deposit (Metadata + Full Pub)

Digital Repository (Metadata + Digital Object)

Access &Dissemination

Local intranet access

Remote Internet Access

Metadata Cross-archive search ServiceOAI-PMH

(on institutional intranet)

IR Software


IR Functionality

User Registration

Document Submission

Approval/ Moderation(Workflow)

Archiving

Dissemination

Administration

InstitutionalRepository


Enabling Technologies

• Open source (free) software for establishing and managing IRs– EPrints, DSpace, CDSWare, etc.– OAI compliant

• Metadata standards like Dublin Core• Inter-operability protocols like OAI-PMH• Campus-wide network infrastructure


Open Source IR Software (2)InstallationsSoftware

37OPUS10MyCoRe

NewMPG eDocs30i-Tor

20+Fedora100+Eprints15+DSpace

7CDSware7ARNO

NewArchimede


Benefits of an IR

• Improved impact of institutional research– How?– Open access on the Internet– Greater visibility – Global presence– More researchers can access, so wider usage

and impact

Studies have shown that freely available research literature tends to be accessed more, read more and

cited more.


Benefits of an IR (2)

• Rapid communication of research• Integrated view of institutional research• Promote collaborative research and knowledge

sharing• Establish priority for research findings• Value-added services such as individual and

department-wise online publication lists • Facilitate improved research knowledge

management


The IISc ePrints Archive

http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/


eprints@iisc• Purpose:

– Improve visibility and impact of IISc research– Create a ‘digital research archive’ of IISc

research– Integrated view of research output

(individual researcher/ dept./ institutional)• Pilot implementation: Early 2002• Service launched: December 2002• Use EPrints open source software• Server: P4, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB, Linux Red Hat


Publication Submission Process


Repository Browsing and Searching


Browse by Year


Browse by publication type


More IR Examples

• Australian National University– http://eprints.anu.edu.au/

• University of Montreal (Canada)– http://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/

• University of Essen (Germany)– http://miless.uni-essen.de/

• University of Nottingham (UK)http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/


More IR Examples (2)

• CERN scientific information service– http://cds.cern.ch/

• University of Glasgow (UK)– http://eprints.lib.gla.ac.uk/

• Caltech (USA)– http://coda.caltech.edu/

• MIT (USA)– http://hpds1.mit.edu/index.jsp


IRs and Publisher Copyright

• Publisher copyright – key concern of researchers to deposit their publications to IRs

• Growing number of publishers now permit ePrint archiving in IRs– 61% post-print, 23% pre-print (out of 8242

journals from 97 publishers)– Project Romeo/ JISC – http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/– http://romeo.eprints.org/


OAI and Cross-Archive Search Services

• A few hundred IRs exist today• We cannot afford to search each IR for

resource discovery• Cross-archive search: OAI-PMH

interoperability protocol for ‘harvesting’metadata from different digital archives

• Cross-archive search services: ARC, OAIster, CiteBase

• Google now indexes IRs now!


Metadata Document objects

DC Metadata

OAI-DC (unqualified) (mapping)

Metadata Document objects

DC Metadata

Repository 1 Repository 2

Metadata Harvester (e.g. ARC, OAIster)

Cross-Index

OAI-DC (unqualified) (mapping)

OAI-PMH Protocol


Cross-Archive search Example –OAIster System

http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/


Message?• Institutional repositories have great potential for

improving visibility and impact of institutional research

• Easy to set up and manage• Should be viewed as institutional infrastructure/

service (academic/ R&D organizations)• Particularly relevant to developing nations -

Combined with OA journals, provide global presence to our research findings


Thank You

T.B. RajashekarNCSI, Indian Institute of ScienceBangalore

[email protected]

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