The JISC commissioned the project partners to undertake a scoping study whose aim
is to identify sustainable technical and organisational models to support user-oriented
services across digital repositories. Open access repositories of interest to UK further
and higher education communities were cited as having particular relevance. The
study is intended to inform strategies to support access and use of repositories, with a
view to the establishment of a national repository services infrastructure or framework....
The following have been identified as top priorities:
interim ‘catch-all’ repository (or repositories) for authors whose institution does not
yet have a repository
national resource-discovery service
meta-analysis services, specifically citation analysis and bibliometric analysis
services that can inform future national research assessment exercises
repository usage and statistics services....
The full list of recommendations made to the JISC is as follows:
The research community should be engaged at the highest level to encourage
the establishment of repositories in all HE and FE institutions and the
development of policies that will ensure the collection of content....
Developments of repositories, aggregators, end-user services, and intermediary
services should move towards a service-oriented architecture and establish
separate layers for the aggregation model to maximise the flexibility available for
building end-user services to meet user requirements....
Additional means to generate metadata using automatic means are required. It
is recommended that investigations into relevant techniques and tools be taken
forward with some urgency....
It is recommended that the use of RSS and ATOM be investigated as additional
standards to OAI-PMH for use in aggregating metadata and content. They offer
the potential of targeted exposure of repository resources that may be beneficial
in the development of end-user services targeted at specific communities. It is
also recommended that the exposure of repository contents within web search
engines be examined in closer detail to assess the paths of exposure that exist
and the implications for repositories of exposure via this route....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/05/2006 08:02:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
