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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES
Digital Strategy: European Perspectives
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
e-mail: [email protected]
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Contents
1. UCL and UCL Library Services2. Institutional architectures3. E-Content
E-Journals E-Books Mass Digitisation
4. Open Access5. Digital Curation
LIFE project UK Research Data Service
6. Conclusions?
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1. UCL and UCL Library Services
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League Tables
World University rankings
1 Harvard University US2= University of Cambridge UK2= University of Oxford UK2= Yale University US5 Imperial College, London UK6 Princeton University US7= California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US7= University of Chicago US9 UCL (University College London) UK10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US
http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_rankings/top_100_universities/
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League Tables
World University rankings
1 Harvard University US2= University of Cambridge UK2= University of Oxford UK2= Yale University US5 Imperial College, London UK6 Princeton University US7= California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US7= University of Chicago US9 UCL (University College London) UK10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US
http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_rankings/top_100_universities/
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Library Strategy2005-10
10 over-arching goals E-Strategy a priority for:
Teaching and Learning Research Student experience Partnership working
See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/libstrat_may05.shtml
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2. Institutional Architectures
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User Interface
OptionalSub-
Gateway
Indexing &Metadata
DigitalContent
PaperContent
VLELibrary website
Freely available
A&I Databases
Library catalogues
UCL licensed
A&I databases
UCL owned
eUCLidE-Prints
Reading Lists
ScholarlyGatewayse.g. ArXiv
MetaLib
SFX
UCL owned
Special Colls archiveExam papers
E-Prints
UCL licensed
E-JournalsE-Books
Freely available
E-JournalsE-Books
Other full textDigital Course Readings
Books Journals Reading Lists Exam Papers etc.
Inter-connected e-services @ UCL
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Digital challenges
Present architecture is systems-driven Needs to be user-centric
UCL’s requirements do not fit all modules Federated searching via MetaLib not heavily used E-Learning platform missing? Flexible management information generated by any library staff member
New services Digital curation and digital preservation of institutional content Join-up with campus-wide systems
Student Systems, Finance Systems, Alumni systems Networked versus institutional provision?
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VRE/VLE/ local web
Student/UCL Library systems
Social networking tools Google interface to Internet
Prescribed core readingsand textbooks
Local UCL holdings
Paper and e-
External content subscribed and free
Research collaborations; Primary data; Group
project work; Learning interface
Pay fees; book residences;pay fines; see course andexam marks; see loans
information
Core textbooks (STM); Digital readings (AHSS)
Books/Journals/AV/Digital Collections
and Archives
YouTube, FaceBook, Flickr Global resources - freeE-Journals, E-Books,
mass digitisation
Institutional portal?
OAI? OAI?
OAI? OAI/Federated search
Snippets
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Key Strategic Questions
British Museum Reading Room is traditional modelLibrary pulls readers into library space
In a networked and global environment, library is just one content provider In UCL, STM researchers hardly ever set foot into a physical library space
Digital material is pushed to them electronically at their desktop Should the Library push stuff out to where the student is (e.g. Facebook)?
Is an institutional portal helpful in providing a one-stop shop for the user to navigate both local and remote content and services?
Thanks to Lorcan Dempsey for this metaphor and discussion
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User response:The ‘Google Generation’?
Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future See http://www.bl.uk/news/2008/pressrelease20080116.html Research undertaken by CIBER at UCL
All age groups revealed to share ‘Google Generation’ traits Young people
Rely heavily on search engines View rather than read Do not possess the critical or analytical skills needed to assess the
information they find on the web
This has implications for the development of digital strategies
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3. E-Content E-Journals E-Books Mass Digitisation
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E-Journals
E-Journal delivery to desktop now standard Publisher backfiles a high priority
Paper copy? Current issues of paper copies cancelled? Challenge is multiple copies of back-runs of paper journals, particularly in
Science, Technology and Medicine (STM), in university library stores UK Research Reserve being funded by HEFCE to provide a copy of last
resort, with document delivery optionSee http://www.curl.ac.uk/projects/CollaborativeStorage/Home.htm
Arrangements for second and third copies around UK being overseen by SCONUL as part of developments
De-duplication of paper holdings across sector a possible outcome
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E-Books
SuperBook project at UCL Collaboration between UCL Library Services and UCL’s School of Library Archive and Information Studies See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/ciber/superbook/ ‘With e-books available directly from anywhere on or off campus, and
portable readers capable of holding more than 100 books, the traditional academic library will need to examine the way it manages and delivers book collections. It is the users who will drive the e-book story forward; and, unlike earlier formats, no one is watching the users of this new breed of ‘super books’
Final Report available in Summer 2008Thanks to Dr Ian Rowlands, UCL SLAIS, for the following slides from a
Workshop at King’s College Cambridge, 30 August 2007
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1st E-Textbooks: 58.9%
2nd Reference Books: 52.4%
3rd Research monographs: 46%
Initial findings from UCL’s SuperBook project
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E-Book issues
E-Books the next major form of content to be available digitally?
Business Models Monograph publishing is supported by sales to individuals What is the driver for publishers to move to E-Book delivery?
Discovery and Retrieval How is the mass of available content to be located and made available for
discovery? De-duplicated FRBRized (for e- and paper copy) and different editions available in one search Whose role is it to do this?
Vendors, Third Parties, Libraries…? Metadata standards for E-Books need to mature
And to develop down to chapter, section and paragraph level for inclusion in E-Learning offerings
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E-Content:Mass digitisation in Europe
Europeana Portal for Europe’s libraries, galleries, museums, archives, plus film and
soundSee http://www.europeana.eu/
2,000,000 digital objects to be available by July 2009 Prototype to be launched in November 2008 by Viviane Reding, European
Commissioner for Information Society and Media Funded as part of the eContentplus programme
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm
As part of the i2010 policyhttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/
index_en.htm
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Libraries and Europeana
Libraries co-ordinated by CENL (Committee for European National Libraries)
http://www.nlib.ee/cenl/ LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche)
http://www.libereurope.eu Europeana to use CENL and LIBER portals from which to harvest
metadata TEL (for national libraries)
see http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html LIBER portal
to be built EU offering funding in eContentplus call
To meet 50% of digitisation costs for creating content
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Pan-European developments
LIBER and EBLIDA held a pan-European Digitisation Workshop in Copenhagen in October 2007 See http://www.libereurope.eu/node/142
25 recommendations to discuss with European Commission on 2 June 2008
Vision for European digitisation activity – need for joined up thinking Content – need for European selection criteria Resource discovery – need for portal development Copyright and IPR – particularly around licensing and orphan works Standards and policies – need for registries of identifiers and metadata
standards Business Models – pricing and costing models; need for EU funding Digital Preservation – definition of role and responsibilities
See http://www.libereurope.eu/node/284
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4. Open Access
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European Universities Association
European Universities Association endorsed Open Access on 26 March 2008 See http://www.eua.be/index.php?id=354
Recommendations for University Leadership The basic approach for achieving this [Open Access] should be the
creation of an institutional repository or participation in a shared repository University institutional policies should require that their researchers deposit
(self archive) their scientific publications in their institutional repository upon acceptance for publication
University policies should include copyright in institutional intellectual property rights (IPR) management
University institutional policies should explore also how resources could be found and made available to researchers for author fees to support the emerging “author pays model” of open access
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European Universities Association
Recommendations for National Rectors’ Conferences All National Rectors’ Conferences should work with national research
funding agencies and governments in their countries to implement the requirement for self archiving of research publications in institutional repositories and other appropriate open access repositories
National Rectors’ Conferences should attach high priority to raising the awareness of university leadership to the importance of open access policies in terms of enhanced visibility, access and impact of their research results
Recommendations for the European University Association EUA should continue to contribute actively to the policy dialogue on Open
Access at the European levels with a view to a self archiving mandate for all research results arising from EU research programme/project funding
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Library responses to Open Access
DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) is building a pan-European repository architecture and toolset 13 current partners at http://www.driver-repository.eu/
Pan-European repository projects are building up aggregations of content NEEO (for European economics research)
See http://www.nereus4economics.info/neeo.html DART-Europe, led by LIBER, for European Research Theses
See http://www.dart-europe.eu
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DART-Europe membership
DART-Europe portal (DEEP) has 34 partners from all over Europe Portal currently providing access, via OAI-PMH protocol, to 82,181
doctoral theses Selected universities from UK, Ireland, Hungary National/regional consortia from Nordic Countries, Catalonia, French-
speaking Belgian Universities, Germany
In the pipeline: Switzerland, France, regional consortium from Italy Working with DRIVER to bring in DRIVER partners and countries,
including The Netherlands, Flemish-speaking Belgian Universities
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Why do research theses matter? UCL top 10 downloads 01/07
Research theses in UCL
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Open Access can result in a change of culture
In Arts and Humanities, some/many(?) Ph.D. dissertations are published as monographs
Good print run for such a monograph is 400 copies But repository downloads are much higher…
In UCL example, 131, 126 and 124 per month
Good for research and good for the researcher Is conventional monograph publishing for research dissertations
yesterday’s news? Is this an area where Open Access adds tremendous value? Will current orthodoxy of publishing research theses as monographs
survive?
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5. Digital Curation
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Costing models
LIFE (Lifecycle Information For E-literature) Led by British Library and UCL at http://www.life.ac.uk Phase 2 reporting 23 June 2008 as LIBER project Has established Lifecycle and Preservation costing formulae
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Lifecycle Element
Acquisition Ingest Metadata Access Storage Preservation
Element 1
Selection
(Aq1)
Quality
Assurance
(I1)
Characteri-
sation
(M1)
Reference
Linking
(Ac1)
Bit-stream
Storage
Costs (S1)
Technology
Watch
(P1)
Element 2
IPR
(Aq2)
Deposit
(I2)
Descriptive
(M2)
User Support
(Ac2)
Preservation
Tool Cost
(P2)
Element 3
Licensing
(Aq3)
Holdings
Update
(I3)
Administrative
(M3)
Access Mechanism
(Ac3)
Preservation
Metadata
(P3)
Element 4
Ordering &
Invoicing
(Aq4)
Preservation Action
(P4)
Element 5
Obtaining
(Aq5)
Quality
Assurance
(P5)
Element 6
Check-in
(Aq6)
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Web Archiving Case Study
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UK Research Data Service UKRDS
RLUK (Research Libraries UK – formerly CURL) and RUGIT (Russell Group IT Directors) have issued an Invitation to Tender
£200,000 from HEFCE for a Feasibility Study into the development of a shared digital research data service for UK Higher Education Institutions
Locally, there is uncertainty about the costs involved in managing large data volumes and the availability of a suitably skilled workforce to manage the new challenges posed by data curation
Feasibility Study will address the need not just for storage capacity but for active management of the creation, selection, ingestion, storage, retrieval and preservation of research data - the data lifecycle
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UK Research Data Service UKRDS
Stakeholders Research Councils and Research Councils UK (RCUK) Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills (DIUS) Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Higher Education Funding Councils Individual Universities
International developments in data curation will inform the Feasibility Study
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6. Conclusions?
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Conclusions?
Libraries are changing Reflected in UCL Library Services’ Strategy
Institutional architectures Inter-operability is essential Balance between local and network delivery is changing Are users equipped for the brave new world?
Are E-Books the next big wave of e-content? There is a demand, but publisher offerings are not mature?
Growing interest in Europe in mass digitisation of content European infrastructure and content being put into place
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Conclusions?
Open Access Endorsed by European Universities Association New pan-European Open Access services
Digital Curation LIFE project establishing a generic costing model for lifecycle
curation of digital assets, which includes preservation UK Research Data Service is being scoped and costed
Major new development for UK research
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And finally…
Thanks for listening … if you have been … Happy to hear comments