Fred
I don't at all disagree with most of your comments but thought that the HEFCE pre-consultation questionnaire was very firmly supportive of repositories.
However, I would note that many repositories have over years been suffered to limp on without a great deal of investment or institutional care (I am generalising of course) - and it is not so long ago that there were discussions and postings about the failure of repositories to have made a difference and why should we retain them. Looking on the bright side, the level of engagement by researchers/authors in these issues has never been greater - and they have strong views. Also, one unexpected benefit I have seen is more overt support by researchers for repositories/Green OA as a reaction to the pressure for Gold.
Robin
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Topics of the day:
1. FW: Gold OA infrastructure
2. IRUS-UK technical webinar recordings available
3. ALCTS Scholarly Communications IG ALA Annual Program
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:49:44 +0000
From: "Friend, Fred" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: Gold OA infrastructure
The wide range of activities reported on the gold oa blog illustrate the priority now given to APC-funded gold OA by Government and other Establishment agencies in the UK, and the second-class status being given to repositories and other green OA developments by those same agencies. After many protests following the Finch Report, the role of repositories has been given greater recognition in the policies of RCUK and HEFCE, but this welcome recognition cannot disguise the fact that within the UK Establishment repositories are now not to be encouraged. Both gold and green OA are the twin sisters born of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and across the globe they have been allowed to grow unhindered, indeed actively supported by many governments and official bodies. And so it was it in the UK until the summer of 2012, when powerful lobbying by vested interests achieved their aim of banishing the green sister to the back of the political house.
One result of the second-class status now granted to green OA is that there are now few UK projects to support the development of repositories. So much could be done to illustrate the sustainability of the repository route to OA, or to develop new services based upon repository content, but such developments no longer find favour with agencies committed to gold OA. Fortunately, while the UK Government and Government-funded agencies are content to leave repositories in their partially-developed state and pour taxpayer funds into APC-funded gold OA, many UK universities remain as committed to their institutional repositories as they were before the Finch Report. The problem they face is that while they are expected to prioritise funding for APCs, few universities can afford to fund the developments which would show the true value of repositories as the most cost-effective route to OA for publicly-funded research outputs. Fortunately the UK Government's misguided policy in prioritising APC-funded gold OA at the cost of supporting green OA is unlikely to be followed by other governments wishing to maintain balanced policies.
Fred Friend
Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL
http://www.friendofopenaccess.org.uk
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From: Neil Jacobs [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 03 June 2013 15:49
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Subject: [sparc-oaforum] Gold OA infrastructure
Colleagues
There is a series of insightful blog posts on Gold OA infrastructure here:
www.goldoa.org.uk<http://www.goldoa.org.uk>
There will be a meeting of international experts on this topic tomorrow. We’d welcome any comments on these ideas via the blog, which will inform the direction taken by people like CrossRef, COUNTER, international publishers, NISO, etc.
Many thanks
Neil
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 14:00:57 +0000
From: Anne Reed <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: IRUS-UK technical webinar recordings available
Dear all
The audio recording and the presentation from the webinar for repository technical managers held on 22nd May are now available on the IRUS-UK website (http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/news/).
The webinar included a demonstration of the IRUS-UK portal which has been replaced by screenshots in the presentation.
We regret that we have been unable to make the video recording available due to some issues with image quality.
Regards
Anne
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 12:33:23 -0400
From: Maureen Walsh <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ALCTS Scholarly Communications IG ALA Annual Program
**Please excuse cross-postings**
ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group, ALA Annual 2013
Saturday, June 29th from 1:00 to 2:30 pm
McCormick Place Convention Center, room MCP-N128
Add this event to your Annual schedule: http://ala13.ala.org/node/10826
Please join us for the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group
Program at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
We will be featuring two presentations:
*ORCID: Facilitating Interoperability for Research Universities*
Rebecca Bryant
Director of Community, ORCID*
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ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, not-for-profit,
community-driven organization that provides an open registry of persistent
unique identifiers for researchers and scholars. ORCID also automates
linkages to research works by embedding identifiers in research workflows.
In this presentation, we will discuss the opportunities and benefits of
university integration with ORCID, share current integration user cases at
universities and funding agencies, and provide information about how
institutions can become ORCID members.
*The Library Publishing Coalition Project: Building Capacity for an
Emerging Area of Library Service Provision*
Charles Watkinson
Executive Group, Library Publishing Coalition
Director, Purdue University Press
Head of Scholarly Publishing Services, Purdue Libraries
The Library Publishing Coalition Project is a two year program that began
in January 2013 to build a collaborative framework to support the
development of library publishing services in academic libraries. In 2012 a
project sponsored by IMLS, "Library Publishing Services: Strategies for
Success," reported that 55% of academic libraries of all sizes were either
developing or implementing library services (including 79% of ARL
libraries). It identified major needs for the development of best
practices, collaboration to create community-based resources, and
formalization of skills and training. The LPC project represents the
response of a group of over fifty North American libraries to these
recommendations. Programs currently under development include the
publication of a directory of library publishing programs, the first of its
kind; the organization of an annual meeting, to be first held in 2014; the
creation of an online repository for sharing useful publishing tools,
workflows, and documents; and the deployment of a targeted research agenda.
This presentation will give an overview of library publishing activities as
currently understood, describe how the LPC project fits into this
landscape, and provide an update on progress so far. Plenty of time will be
left for feedback and discussion.
The presentations will be followed by a brief business meeting.
Melanie Feltner-Reichert
Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group
Assistant Professor and Digital Initiatives Metadata Librarian
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Maureen P. Walsh
Vice-Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group
Associate Professor / Institutional Repository Services Librarian
The Ohio State University Libraries
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