Libraries as Knowledge Infrastructure of the 21st century: the role of Libraries in the future of Research and Higher Education. A presentation by Dr. Paul Ayris (LIBER President) to the European Commission.

1. Libraries as Knowledge Infrastructure of the 21st
century: the role of Libraries in the future of
Research and Higher Education
Dr Paul Ayris
President of LIBER
p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk
European Commission, Brussels
23rd
September 2013

2. CONTENTS

3. CONTENTS

4. WORKING AT SCALE
 LIBER has
members in
each
member
state
 400+
members in
total

5.  LIBER Strategy - http://www.libereurope.eu/strategy
 Is built on Research support
 Does not attempt to replicate institutional Strategies
 Adds value by providing a pan-European Strategy layer
 3 Key Performance Areas
 Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructures
 Reshaping the Research Library
 Advocacy and Communications
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTIONAL
REGIONAL/
NATIONAL
LIBER

6.  OA Policy positions across Europe
 UK Finch Report set the UK policy position
- See http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/
- Recommended a clear policy direction in the UK
towards support for ‘Gold’ open access publishing
- Opposed by the research-intensive universities
- £100 million will go to publishers over 5 years
- No real attempt by Finch or RCUK to protect the UK
research community from escalating publishing
costs
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT: Case Study
INSTITUTIONAL
REGIONAL/
NATIONAL
LIBER

7. STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT: European Case Study
INSTITUTIONAL
REGIONAL/
NATIONAL
LIBER
49 mandatory policies in ROARMAP
Type Number
Green OA mandate 36
Green OA mandate with Gold option 12
Gold preference with Green option 1
Gold costs can be paid from research grant or claimed from funder = 19

8. STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT: European Case Study
 For an individual
institutional policy,
Green is the only
affordable practical
option
 JISC Report by John
Houghton and Alma
Swan – Going for Gold
 See http://ie-
repository.jisc.ac.uk/6
10

9. RESOURCING: UK library block grants as a % on institutional spend
2011-12 UCL EDIN IC KCL UMAN OXFD
Block grant to
Library £ 14,990,928 12,700,718 9,536,941 12,067,047 17,958,780 38,850,503
Total
institutional
expenditure £ 843,425,000 659,913,000 702,049,000 522,707,000 758,157,000 971,831,000
% 1.78 1.92 1.36 2.31 2.37 4.00
All Libraries
Block Grant £ 376,812,618
Total institutional expenditure £ 28,881,371,655
% 1.30

10. CONTENTS

11. OPPORTUNITIES

12. CONTENTS

13. DART-Europe research theses portal
 DART-Europe portal
 Access to 418,896 open access research theses from
541 Universities, in 27 European countries
 Discovery and retrieval
by end-users
 Data Service feeding
other discovery systems
 Marketing tool by
university Graduate
Schools
 To aid selection by
student of where to
study

14. Early European Books
Early European Books traces
the history of printing in
Europe from its origins
through to the close of the
seventeenth century, offering
full-colour, high-resolution
facsimile images of rare and
hard-to-access printed
sources.
Complements EEBO – Early
English Books Online

15. Early European Books
Contributing LIBER Libraries
Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal
Library, Copenhagen)
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
di Firenze
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
(National Library of the
Netherlands)
The Wellcome Library, London

16. Early European Books
The St Andrews Universal
Short Title Catalogue project
(USTC) will create one of the
most powerful resources
ever envisaged for the study
of book and print culture,
providing a complete survey
of all printed books – at least
350,000 editions – published
in Europe between the
invention of printing and the
end of the sixteenth century
http://www.ustc.ac.uk/
Cheryl LaGuardia, Library Journal, 04/01/2010:
When completed, EEB is going to fulfil the dreams of
scholars around the world. A natural complement to
EEBO, this is essential for every library supporting
scholarly humanities research.
The CERL Thesaurus contains forms
of imprint places, imprint names,
personal names and corporate
names found in found in Early
Modern printed books, including
variant spellings, forms in Latin and
other languages, and pseudonyms.
http://www.cerl.org

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18. Research Data
http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society
_Content/policy/projects/sape/2012-06-20-SAOE.pdf

19. Research Data: 10 Recommendations for Libraries
1. Offer research data management support.
2. Engage in the development of metadata
and data standards and services.
3. Create Data Librarian posts and develop
professional staff skills for data librarianship.
4. Participate in institutional policy
development.
5. Liaise with researchers to create
interoperable data infrastructures.
6. Support the lifecycle for research data via
service provision
7. Promote research data citation by
applying persistent identifiers to data.
8. Create an institutional Data
Catalogue/Repository
9. Get involved in subject specific data
management practice.
10. Offer or mediate storage with
institutional and/or external providers.
http://www.libereurope.eu/news/ten-recommendations-for-
libraries-to-get-started-with-research-data-management

20. Research Data

21. Research Data
ODE Data
Publication
Pyramid

22. Research Data
7 roles for Libraries in Data Management
Availability Making data available and providing search services
Findability Support for best practice in managing data
Interpretability Provision of, and training in, metadescriptions
Usability Advice on subject archives and licences for re-use
Citability Best practice in citations, use of Persistent Identifiers
Curation Curation, and provision of training
Preservation Advocacy for good data management practices and
archiving

23. Research Data
LIBER Survey on the
ODE
Recommendations for
Libraries in Research
Data
The biggest gap
between demand and
supply was for support
in the creation of data
management plans,
with only 19% of
libraries providing
support in this area

24. Publication Fund management
 JISC Collections trialling a shared
service to UK universities
 OAK will manage OA funds held in
universities
 And payments for APCs for Gold OA
publishing

27.  Need is for automated tools and workflow management, both
for researchers and for libraries administering funds

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29. LERU and the European Researcher
 LERU Roadmap, including support
from LIBER, was produced in 2011
 Advocates a balanced approach
between Green and Gold OA
 Most LERU universities more
comfortable with Green than Gold
 LERU Roadmap for Research Data
approved in principle in September
2013; signoff in November at LERU
General Assembly

30. UCL’s digital library provision
Learning Satisfaction Online Library
UCL RGI (mean)
International 91.80% 91.27%
Home 93.57% 92.27%
Overall 92.65% 91.94%
 Traditional role of resource provision continues
 Even in an Open Access world
National and International Student
Barometers, Summer 2012

31.  Overlay journals system
developed
 Full-text resides in UCL Discovery
and the overlay layer for
presentation uses OJS
 Partnership between UCL Library
Services and academic
Departments
 Service will be promoted to UCL
in 2013-14
 See Slovo from UCL SSEES
postgraduates at
http://ojs.lib.ucl.ac.uk/index.php
/Slovo 31
University publishing

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35.  Access to centrally-maintained journal management software
o Ease of use
o Optionally, supports a range of journal management functions
o Supports rolling publication, if desirable
 Use of UCL Discovery for storage and dissemination
o High visibility of articles
o Stable URLs
o Customisable download of reports
o Access to repository tools for dissemination, embedding
 Support from UCL Library Services in a range of areas including OJS configuration,
repository upload, formats, encoding, rights and licensing
 Long-term hosting and digital preservation
University publishing: Benefits

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37. Conclusions
Saint Jerome in his Study, fresco by
Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480. Church of
Ognissanti, Florence
 Traditional role of research libraries as
collectors of content continues
 Challenges to working at scale across
Europe
o LIBER can provide focus for this activity
 New roles for libraries as research
infrastructure
o By being embedded in research
workflow
o Leading on Open Access to
Publications and Research Data
Management
o Managing funds for OA publication and
dissemination
o Library as publisher

38. Thanks for listening
Questions?