Canadian Research Libraries:The Public Knowledge Project,

Institutional Repositories, Electronic Theses

Lynn CopelandSimon Fraser University Library

CARL Study TourEngland, November 2007

Canadian Research Libraries

Impact on scholarly communication through

software development IRs etheses

seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online environments.

OJS – Open Journals system

OCS – Open Conference system

PKP Metadata harvester

Lemon8 – Word, etc XML

OJS worldwide

OJS

OJS

OCS

Canadian Institutional Repositories

30 identified on CARL site Many use Dspace, others include Papyrus, U

Sask ETD 16 in the CARL harvester U of T (Tspace) is partner in Dspace consortium CIHR Policy on Access to Research Outputs SPARC Canadian author addendum

CARL IR harvester

CARL IR Harvester

Theses

Julie Lassonde – Performing Law: UVIC

NDLTD Outstanding e-thesis (Innovative ETD)

Pravin Pillay: Samsara Unlimited: Towards an Ecology of Compassion – U Sask

NDLTD Outstanding e-thesis (Innovative ETD)

synergies & Synergies

PKP development part of SynergiesPartner developers UT, UNB, AU etc.Will allow expansion to include:

Scholarly monograph process managementThesis process management

IR harvester is a PKP development, used for CARL harvester

Further info

Lynn Copeland,

Dean of Libraries, Simon Fraser University

copeland@sfu.ca