ePoster presented at the Berlin10 Open Access Conference (Stellenbosch, South Africa, Nov 7-8, 2012). Abstract: The UK RepositoryNet+ Project (RepNet) has been funded by the JISC (UK Joint Information Systems Committee) to design, develop and implement a whole range of new services for the UK Institutional Repository (IR) Network, including support for new Open Access publishing models for research papers. Following its launch at the Open Repositories 2012 Conference (OR12) last July, the RepNet is now rolling out initial Wave 1 services and specifying Wave 2 services which together will represent a comprehensive suite of tools to support Open Access publishing through the Institutional Repository network developed by JISC. The RepNet Project, being run through the EDINA National Data Centre in Edinburgh, has integrated existing components and services and will be providing new ones to fill in the needs identified through a gap analysis process. Some preliminary needs analysis has already been held with different stakeholders involved in Open Access publishing – such as funders, repository managers and STM publishers. This design phase is will be followed by a first RepNet dissemination programme for repository managers and other members of the Open Access community, with a series of events to be held in order to promote discussion and collect feedback. This poster will show the background to the funding of the project, the methodology followed to map the academic publishing landscape and establish user requirements, the process followed to develop the components catalogue, and the new services for the UK repository network the project aims to develop within its project funding through July 2013.

1. Developing New Services
over the UK Repository Network
Peter Burnhill – p.burnhill@ed.ac.uk
Pablo de Castro – v1pdeca@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Andrew Dorward – andrew.dorward@ed.ac.uk
Terence Sloan – T.M.Sloan@ed.ac.uk
EDINA National Data Centre, Edinburgh, UK
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2. Landscape: Actors, Agency & Relationships for Report, Deposit & Access
Licensed/
teacher editor monograph
Academic Publisher tollgate
student referee access to
Publisher’s
researcher Final Copy
journal
(PFC)
P.I. author(s)
Subject
Deposit of metadata/text of Repository
SWORD
Authors’ Final Copy
(AFC)
Research Digital
UKPMC reader
metrics Library
Award EU
reporting
Eval
Research
Outcomes Institutional
NORA Repository
curation
CERIF
micro - services
UKCoRR
EU RCUK Wellcome
Trust stewardship budgets
ARMA
UK Research Library
Funder CRIS Research Excellence HEI
[OA mandate] Framework Institution
[OA mandate]
HEFCE, SFC …
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3. Summary of Available Infrastructure by Functional Area
A: Aggregation, Text mining & Search
Aggregated set of metadata
REPUK for development D: Deposit Tools
Search, aggregation, full-text
CORE Publisher policies
mining for OA repositories RoMEO
Search, aggregation, data- on OA deposit
IRS mining for all IRs
Juliet Research funders’ policies
on OA
B: Benchmarking, Statistics Open Redirect facility to OA IRs,
and Report Depot and default OA repository
Centralised service for collection of OA
IRUS-UK usage statistics
M2M direct for multi-
RJBroker authored works to OA
repository(ies)
C: Creating Relevant Registries
OpenDOAR Authoritative, manually curated registry E: Enhancing Metadata Quality
of OA repositories, combined with
Naming Authority for the UK
harvested metadata NAMES2 assigning identifiers to
Registry of OA repositories compiled with organisations and individuals
ROAR engaged in research
statistics in mind
Organisation based with information
ORI on repositories
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4. Planned RepNet Service Components and Activities
RepNet components
HEI Finance Systems
Services
HEI CRIS Systems
Supporting activities
Data
Available through service directory interchange
RepNet Service Desk RepNet Service Directory
OARR
R-J Broker
KPL
RoMEO
JULIET
Report on
Search
Data mining
ORI PDF
DOI retrieval
OpenDOAR – Cross-Ref
ROAR NAMES Fund-Ref
Aggregation Benchmarking Registry of Deposit Metadata
and Search and Reporting Repositories tools quality
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5. RepNet Use Case 1: The Dashboard for Tracking OA Mandate Compliance
• A tool for monitoring rates of compliance for funders’ OA policies as part of wider
remit to track OA outputs and payments.
• Dashboard offers information on degree of progress of funded Project outputs (mainly
research articles) along their way towards being made available Open Access.
More info on #UKRepNet:
http://www.repositorynet.ac.uk/
Peter Burnhill, Pablo de Castro,
Andrew Doward, Terence Sloan,
EDINA National Data Centre 5

6. RepNet Use Case 1: The Dashboard for Tracking OA Mandate Compliance
• A tool for monitoring rates of compliance for funders’ OA policies as part of wider
remit to track OA outputs and payments.
• Dashboard offers information on degree of progress of funded Project outputs (mainly
research articles) along their way towards being made available Open Access.
More info on #UKRepNet:
http://www.repositorynet.ac.uk/
Peter Burnhill, Pablo de Castro,
Andrew Doward, Terence Sloan,
EDINA National Data Centre 5