http://hdl.handle.net/1842/165 2013-05-22T16:59:20Z 2013-05-22T16:59:20Z MOOCs@Edinburgh Group http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6683 2013-05-15T15:56:52Z 2013-05-10T00:00:00Z

Title: MOOCs @ Edinburgh 2013: Report #1 Authors: MOOCs@Edinburgh Group Abstract: A report summarising the experience of the University of Edinburgh of offering our first 6 massive open online courses (MOOCs) in partnership with Coursera

2013-05-10T00:00:00Z Burnhill, Peter http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6682 2013-04-30T15:23:24Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Tales from The Keepers Registry: Serial Issues About Archiving & the Web Authors: Burnhill, Peter Abstract: A key task for libraries is to ensure access for their patrons to the scholarly statements now found across the Internet. Three stories reveal progress towards success in that task. The context of these stories is the shift from print to digital format for all types of continuing resources, particularly journals, and the need to archive not just serials but also ongoing ‘integrating resources’ such as databases and Web sites. The first story is about The Keepers Registry, an international initiative to monitor the extent of e-journal archiving. The second story is about the variety of ‘serial issues’ that have had to be addressed during the PEPRS (Piloting an E-journals Preservation Registry Service) project which was commissioned in the UK by JISC. These include identification, naming and identification of publishers, and the continuing need for a universal holdings statement. The role of the ISSN, and of the ISSN-L, has been a key. The third story looks beyond e-journals to new research objects and the dynamics of the Web, to the role of citation and fixity, and to broader matters of digital preservation. This story reflects upon seriality, as the Web becomes the principal arena and medium for scholarly discourse. Scientific discourse is now resident on the Web. Much that is issued on the Web is issued nowhere else: it is a digital native. Statistics that indicate the extent of archiving for e-journals to which major university libraries subscribe are also included in the article.

2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Hunter, Philip http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6551 2013-01-22T15:35:34Z 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ERIS Project Authors: Hunter, Philip Abstract: Unlike its predecessor project IRIScotland, which took a more top-down approach to developing repository services for users in Scottish HE institutions, the ERIS project took a bottom-up approach, and consulted potential users of repository systems widely at the outset of the project, whether these systems would be for use by single institutions or subject pools. The idea was to find out what the user community actually required in terms of repository systems and services. In practice we discovered that there was a range of opinion about the usefulness of repositories to researchers, and to institutions. Some groups within HE are already clear about the usefulness of the technology, and the associated workflows. These do not need much persuading. Others see the suggestion that they should use repositories to disseminate their research as an imposition of extra work, additional to the existing publication process, either for themselves or their research administrators. This spectrum of opinion surfaced in both the focus group activity and the case studies, reports on which form part of the appendices to this report. Perhaps surprisingly, the division of opinion was also found among the research pools and their users. The staff of the project responded to the spectrum of opinion, and the range of commitment to the role of repositories in dissemination, and in the research process, by reformulating their ideas about engagement with the research community in Scotland, and about what was required to achieve the goal of enhancing repository infrastructure for users and stakeholders. This was done in an agile way, and the new approach and new targets were formulated and agreed, and reflected in the quality plan which can be found at Appendix J. The new approach consisted of two strands. The first was about increased advocacy for the use of repositories, which involved the offer of hosted repository services during the later stages of the project, for institutions which did not already have their own institutional repositories. If these (generally) smaller institutions wished to continue to have access to these hosted repository spaces after the end of the project, it was proposed that these repository-lite services would be administered by the SDLC (the Scottish Digital Library Consortium), at minimal cost. The idea of this was to ensure at least a minimal level of provision nationally, to encourage the use of repositories. The second strand involved looking beyond the limited period of the project, to what would be required to promote the take-up and development of repository services in the longer term. It was concluded that this would involve developing the business case for continuing ERIS/IRIScotland type work. What the project had in mind was setting up co-ordinating groups and fora for meetings of stakeholders and users, and the research pools. This would be the responsibility of the SCOS group (the Scottish Council for Open Scholarship). It was planned that SCOS would be launched formally at a event closure meeting, held in the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in September 2011. [Quality Plan Appendix J]. The course of the project after the community consultations followed this new approach. The project continued to be agile in response, and influenced related work in Scotland (see section: ‘Outcomes’). We have a number of recommendations to make for future approaches to repository operations in Scotland. These are listed in a section following.

2011-10-01T00:00:00Z Burnhill, Peter de Castro, Pablo Dorward, Andrew Sloan, Terry http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6425 2012-09-21T12:48:35Z 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A Pedestrian View of the Roads to Open Access: Understanding Workflows to Enrich Infrastructure Authors: Burnhill, Peter; de Castro, Pablo; Dorward, Andrew; Sloan, Terry Abstract: Things are moving quickly on the policy front with respect to the roads to Open Access with renewed focus on Gold Open Access. Gold OA is essentially the purchase of a service from a publisher: that the Publisher’s (or Published) Final Copy is made available under specified terms of Open Access. This is in contrast to the Green Road to Open Access, which typically involves the deposit and availability of the Authors’ Final Copy, by an author or an authorised agent. UK RepositoryNet+ (UKRepNet) is a JISC initiative being developed by EDINA. This is infrastructure to enable the delivery of services to universities and colleges in the UK in their work with Institutional Repositories (IRs) and the like to support Open Access (OA) and reporting arrangements for research outputs and outcomes. The focus is upon research literature as part of research output, noting the growth of the enhanced publication (i.e. the data behind the graph) and the importance of citation of data sources and instrumentation. Though Green OA is still important, the move to Gold OA is being accelerated faster than originally anticipated at the project kick-off in October 2011. Accordingly UKRepNet was given a ‘watching brief’ to monitor the significance of Gold OA in order that infrastructure being created remained relevant. What follows is report from that Watch activity, setting out the envisaged workflows, both financial and informational. The RepNet focus is on delivering a sustainable and fit for purpose repository service infrastructure. This has an emphasis on institutional repository infrastructure and therefore a focus on Green but naturally there are links to Gold, and as other service requirements emerge the service environment would need to be extensible to encompass those or to at least interoperate with them. Related to this JISC initiative & the wider OA environment ( both Gold & Green) is the work on metadata to research outputs that JISC is taking forward with publishers & RCUK: this includes RIOX, Vocabulary for OA (V4OA) & also the activity via the Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG) on APCs ( which this short report is feeding into). RIOX & V4OA constitute action with regards to the agreement on UK Repository Application Profile to include OA and Funder Metadata. The semantics of OA are being dealt with in V4OA which is a JISC action as a result resulting from the agreement to address this issue between OAIG & Publishers. This work will feed into the National Information Standards Organisation (NISO).

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