JISC Research Information Management28th June, 2012

Andrew Dorward

What is RepNet ?•a socio-technical infrastructure supporting deposit, curation & exposure of Open Access research literature.

What’s 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

UK RepositoryNet+ (RepNet)

Mapping the publishing landscape….

Funder, researchers, publishers and institutions…

PublishersAcademics

Institutions

Funders

Reader

Author

P.I.

Teacher

Faculty

ResearchAwards

Institutional Repository

Subject Repository

Funders Repository

Monograph

JournalArticle

CRISLibrary

Open Open AccessAccess

Research Research Information Information

ManagementManagement

Research Grant Office

Eval

Academic

reader

researcher

ResearchOutcomes

UKPMC

HEI Institution

[OA mandate]

Library

CRIS

InstitutionalRepository

Publisher

author(s)

editorreferee

teacherstudent

P.I.

journal

monographLicensed/tollgate

access toPublisher’s Final Copy

(PFC)

Rich Picture: Actors, Agency & Relationships for Report, Deposit & Access

ARMA

ResearchAward reporting

Deposit of metadata/text of

Authors’ Final Copy(AFC)

DigitalLibrary

curation micro - services

Research Excellence Framework

metrics

SubjectRepository

stewardship budgets

NORA

UK Research Funder

[OA mandate]

HEFCE, SFC …

EU RCUK WellcomeTrust

SWORD

CERIF

UKCoRR

EU

RepositoryNet Production Environment

hosted

…

…

curationmicro-services

InnovationZone

Rapid Innov.

/

…

hacks

…

Service components

Service DeskService Support Service Directory

remote

Funders’Repositories

SubjectRepositories

InstitutionalRepositories

consumers

Sketch of RepositoryNet Infrastructure & Components

High-Level Plan

Preparation:Stakeholder analysis

Functional requirementsSelect components

Jan2011 2012

Oct MarApr Jul2013JanOctAug

Implementation: Wave OneIntegrate components into a production environmentSustainability business models

Other JISC Programmes (Open Access Implementation Group, Research Information Management, etc.)

Implementation:WaveTwo

Service enhancementIntegrate new components

JISC

Service P

ortfolio Review

Web Site/Production Environment

www.repositorynet.ac.uk

Roadmap with functional areas

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Context, Scope and Focus

RepNet products/services

Context

Scope

Focus

Open AccessGovernment policyFunder mandates

Publisher practises

Gold OA – payment mechanismsResearch Information Management

Research data setsCo-operation with Open AIRE

Executing SIPG Wave 1 business proposalsData integration – working together

Identifying Wave 2 Services

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RJBroker Wave 1

Components for Wave 1

RoMEO

Juliet

Wave 1

Wave 1

ORI Wave 1

IRUS-UK Wave 1

OpenDepot

UI for OARJ

NAMES2 Align with ORCID

ROAR

Open DOAR

ITT - OARR

ITT - OARR

IRS

REPUK

CORE

Innovation Zone

Innovation zone

Innovation Zone

A: Aggregation, Text mining & Search

B: Benchmarking, Statistics and Report

C: Creating Relevant Registries

D: Deposit Tools

E: Enhancing Metadata Quality

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• 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

Summary