The Repositories Roadmap was published in 2006 and presented a vision for the role of repositories in 2010. Given the many changes in practice, policy and technology since 2006 it is timely to review the Roadmap. This Review seeks to extend the horizon to 2013, to clarify the relationship of repositories to the broader environment and to steer the future work of JISC and others interested in furthering repository implementation and enhanced scholarly communication. The review is based on consultation with experts using a Web forum (IdeaScale), a questionnaire based survey, and a workshop.
The Review is structured into two parts. Firstly it makes a number of recommendations targeted at the JISC Executive to inform further funding of repository related activity. The Review then goes on to identify a number of milestones of relevance to the wider community that might act as a measure of progress towards the wider vision of enhanced scholarly communication. Achievement of these milestones would be assisted by JISC through its community work and funding programmes.
Recommendations to JISC ...
Recommendation 4: Communications about repositories should emphasise higher level objectives. It would be helpful for JISC to differentiate high level objectives and subsume repository activity under those objectives. There needs to be a shift in emphasis from the ‘repository’ to the objective. JISC should ensure calls and funded activity relate to particular objectives rather than to ‘repositories’. ...
Recommendation 14: Explore use of cloud computing to support repository storage and services. Consider what repository infrastructure is best located at the local institutional level and what is better outsourced to help alleviate cost implications. ...
Milestones by repository content type
Research Outputs ...
Milestone 2: Support population of institutional repositories by advocacy, case studies, guidelines on best practice, encouraging institutional mandates, encouraging inclusion of open access and management of the life-cycle of digital content in institutional strategies. ...
Milestone 4: Develop added value services layered on repository content (e.g. tools for deposit, search, re-use, linking data, metadata enhancement, citation metrics, publication lists).
Milestone 5: Establish an agency/lead body within the JISC HE community to take a lead on legal issues connected to copyright and publisher policies.
Research Data ...
Milestone 7: Ensure the multiple objectives that management and re-use of research data supports (e.g. discovery, access, re-use and preservation of data) are taken into account in proposed solutions. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 5/08/2009 04:33:00 PM.
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.
