20120620-Digital_repositories_ten_years_on. What can research data repositories learn from open access? Part 1 | JISC DataPool Project. Institutional research data repositories follow in the wake of the widespread adoption of open access repositories across UK institutions during the last decade. What can these new repositories learn from the experiences of open access, and what pointers can we find for the development of data repositories? In the first part of this post we will consider factors such as policy, infrastructure, workflow and curation.
In part 2 we will extend the analysis to rights and user interfaces. It may be a timely moment to reflect. A recent speech by the UK government’s science minister David Willetts prompted renewed excitement over open access, with a forthcoming report to advise on specific actions to be taken to realise more open access.
Open access (OA) repositories, which principally provide free access to an author’s version of published research papers, effectively began with the physics arXiv in 1991. Policy For OA IRs, technology and infrastructure preceded policy. Infrastructure Workflow. SPARC Open Access Program and Speaker Slides. SPARC Open Access Meeting Notes. The SPARC Open Access Meeting was held in Kansas City, Missouri on March 12-13, 2012. Over 200 people attended to discuss a host of Open Access issues including policy issues, author rights, Open Access publishing, and repositories.
Many of the speakers’ slides are available from the SPARC Meeting’s website , and the Twitter backchannel is available via the hashtag #SPARC2012. While all of the speakers were excellent, I’ll share some specific points that particularly stood out and some common themes that appeared throughout panel discussions and presentations. Heather Joseph from SPARC opened the meeting with a nod to the tenth anniversary of Open Access and celebrated by sharing some key OA indicators.
Ten years into OA, we now have: While this is all good news, Joseph encouraged the OA community to take the threat of the Research Works Act and turn it into an opportunity to re-energize the community and take positive action. Some common themes throughout the meeting: “Language matters.”