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A Technical Review of Open Access Repository Registries…

A Technical Review of Open Access Repository Registries :

« This document provides a technical review of the capabilities, benefits and drawbacks of two leading Open Access Repository Registries (OARRs) – OpenDOAR and ROAR. Both systems are considered qualitatively and quantitatively with a view to identifying those facets which provide value for a repository registry service. »

A methodology is identified to investigate the relative strengths of each system based on four main parameters: rate of growth, software, API capabilities, and the quality of data held in each system.

Interviews were conducted with members of the software development teams from both OpenDOAR and ROAR to provide insight into current working practices and technical roadmap for both systems. The output from these interviews are included below along with detailed investigation of each system. This included developing and using software client libraries in Python to review each API.

Additional interviews were also carried out with two API users to provide qualitative input on each systems usability in relation to a specific use case. These were Repository66 a repository mapping service and OA-RJ a deposit broker tool.

Although a direct comparison of OpenDOAR and ROAR is avoided the output is summarized for each system to identify the best and worst aspects. These can be seen as underpinning the shape of a new idealised repository registry. »

URL : http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/612/

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Open Metrics for Open Repositories Increasingly there…

Open Metrics for Open Repositories :

« Increasingly there is a need for quantitative evidence in order to help demonstrate the value of online services. Such evidence can also help to detect emerging patterns of usage and identify associated operational best practice. This paper seeks to initiate a discussion on approaches to metrics for institutional repositories by providing a high-level overview of the benefits of metrics for a variety of stakeholders. The paper outlines the potential benefits which can be gained from providing richer statistics related to the use of institutional repositories and also reviews related work in this area. The authors describe a JISC-funded project which harvested a large number of repositories in order to identify patterns of use of metadata attributes and summarise the key findings. The paper provides a case study which reviews plans to provide a richer set of statistics within one institutional repository as well as requirements from the researcher community. An example of how third-party aggregation services may provide metrics on behalf of the repository community is given. The authors conclude with a call for repository managers, developers and policy makers to be pro-active in providing open access to metrics for open repositories. »

URL : http://opus.bath.ac.uk/30226/

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Scholar publications and open access policies the Ktisis…

Scholar publications and open access policies: the Ktisis case :

« Throughout the world, academic libraries have come to the conclusion that the development of institutional repositories must be one of their major goals. Institutional repositories are the means for libraries to provide access to the research product of the academic community and also to promote open access. The publication of the research results in open access journals assists in the global diffusion of this information. The open access movement is becoming very popular among the academic institutions. Today more than 320 organizations have signed the Berlin declaration on Open Access. The Library and Information Services at the Cyprus University of Technology is one of these organizations. By signing this declaration the University commits to promote and support Open Access encouraging the researchers to publish their work based on the Open Access policies. The Library has developed the first institutional repository in Cyprus, Ktisis. This paper briefly describes the implementation process of Ktisis and continues to examine the set of activities used in the strategic plan of Ktisis, including the definition of open access policies. »

URL : http://hdl.handle.net/10760/17314

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Opening Keynote from Cameron Neylon Network Enabled Research…

Opening Keynote from Cameron Neylon – Network Enabled Research :

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Effective Enabling of Sharing and Reuse of Knowledge…

Effective Enabling of Sharing and Reuse of Knowledge On Semantic Web by Ontology in Date Fruit Model :

« Since Organizations have recognized that knowledge constitutes a valuable intangible asset for creating and sustaining competitive advantages, knowledge sharing has a vital role in present society. It is an activity through which information is exchanged among people through different media. Many problems face the area of knowledge sharing and knowledge reuse. Currently, knowledge sharing between entities is achieved in a very ad-hoc fashion, lacking proper understanding of the meaning of the data. Ontologies can potentially solve these problems by facilitating knowledge sharing and reuse through formal and real-world semantics. Ontologies, through formal semantics, are machine-understandable. A computer can process data, annotated with references to ontologies, and through the knowledge encapsulated in the ontology, deduce facts from the original data. The date fruit is the most enduring symbol of the Sultanate’s rich heritage. Creating ontology for dates will enrich the farming group and research scholars in the agro farm area. »

URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2232

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Going for Gold The costs and benefits of…

Going for Gold? The costs and benefits of Gold Open Access for UK research institutions: further economic modelling :

« The purpose of this work is to provide information to UK universities and policy makers on the likely cost impacts of Gold OA, where the costs of peer review, editorial work and other publishing services are covered by fees paid per article. »

URL : http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/610/2/Modelling_Gold_Open_Access_for_institutions_-_final_draft3.pdf

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On the Citation Advantage of linking to data…

On the Citation Advantage of linking to data :

« This paper present some indications of the existence of a Citation Advantage related to linked data, using astrophysics as a case. Using simple measures, I find that the Citation Advantage presently (at the least since 2009) amounts to papers with links to data receiving on the average 50% more citations per paper per year, than the papers without links to data. A similar study by other authors should a cummulative effect after several years amounting to 20%. Hence, a Data Sharing Citation Advantage seems inevitable. »

URL : http://hprints.org/hprints-00714715