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[drf:836] 11月ボルチモアのSPARC Digital Repository Meetingの公式報告
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:05:58 +0900 (東京 (標準時))
みなさま、
標記が各種メーリングリスト等に投稿されていますので、ご覧になったかたも
いらっしゃると存じますが転送します。紹介されているのは、冒頭とまとめに
2つのキーノート講演ですが、この2つを読むとわかるように、機関リポジトリ
の理念、実践については北米における状況はちょっと前の日本のそれに似てい
るように思われます。オープンアクセス一般論への傾斜は、研究成果可視化論
と研究成果社会還元論が中心になっているようです。ご参考まで。
ヨーロッパではBerlin N(今年はBerlin 6でした)が、アメリカではSPARC
Meeting(次回は2年後との噂もあるらしいですが)が定着するとすると、
DRF200Xがアジア、日本で相当するものとなるのを見るのは楽しみです。
土屋
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For immediate release
December 18, 2008
For more information, contact:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296 ext. 121
jennifer @ xxxxxxx
Services, marketing and creativity are key to digital repository
success
Resources and presentations from recent SPARC repositories meeting now
online
Washington, DC -- December 18, 2008 -- Thought leaders and
practitioners from higher education and beyond called on participants
at the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting in Baltimore on November
17-18 to continue their digital repository development efforts and
offered strategies for building on experience gained to date.
In the opening keynote, John Wilbanks, who heads the Science Commons
project at Creative Commons, pointed to the unique qualities of
digital repositories, and the need to highlight their potential to
serve the academic community in ways that other resources simply
cannot. He encouraged universities to adopt open-access policies
modeled after the one adopted by Harvard University earlier this year
rather than inventing their own.
He also acknowledged the challenge of getting academics to post
materials in a digital repository. "There seems to be a disconnect
between the discussion of people planning to share the information and
the amount of information being shared," said Wilbanks. He suggested
that more repository managers assist faculty in depositing their works
and emphasize the prospect of making their scholarly research more
visible.
Bob Witeck, chief executive officer and founding partner of
Witeck-Combs Communications Inc., pointed to the importance of smart
marketing in getting digital repositories off the ground and valued by
faculty. He encouraged librarians and repository managers to use plain
language and vivid stories to communicate the impact of the open
sharing of information. With the interconnected global market and
economy in turmoil, now is the time to move the open access message
with urgency, he said. These tight economic times, when people are
trying to get more information with less money, may present the
perfect storm of opportunity to make public research available for
free online, said Witeck.
By making digital repositories more visible and demonstrating their
value to the public, universities can win needed support from
taxpayers and communities, said David Shulenburger, Vice President for
Academic Affairs, National Association of State Universities and
Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), in the closing keynote of the meeting.
The public is eager to have the fruits of the scholarship they funded
available because they know the right information at the right place
can change lives, he said. "The folks who pay our bills need to and
want to know how those investments in the university are benefiting
them. Unlike most other enterprises, universities do a lousy job of
letting their investors know what they are getting from their
investment." A well-populated digital repository should be promoted as
a resource to citizens of state, Shulenburger said. "It's time to let
the light of universities shine and allow digital repositories to
entice additional funding," he concluded. Shulenburger's proposed
seven steps for the continued advancement of digital repositories are
now published on the meeting Web site.
A summary of each keynote and every panel discussion, along with
available podcasts, slides, and an invitation to online discussion,
are now online through the SPARC Web site at
http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08.
The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 meeting was made possible
by the generous support of: Microsoft (Conference Sponsor); Berkeley
Electronic Press, BioMed Central, DC Lab, and EPrints (breakfast and
luncheon Sponsors); and seventeen coffee break and supporting sponsors
(listed at http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08).
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SPARC
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with
SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more
than 800 academic and research libraries working to create more open
systems of scholarly communication. SPARC's advocacy, educational and
publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of
research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc.
The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting program was developed by the
members of the 2008 Program Committee: Jun Adachi (SPARC Japan), Raym
Crow (SPARC), Richard Fyffe (Grinnell College), Susan Gibbons
(University of Rochester), Melissa Hagemann (Open Society Institute),
Karla Hahn (Association of Research Libraries), Bill Hubbard (SHERPA),
Rick Johnson (SPARC), Michelle Kimpton (DSpace Foundation), Norbert
Lossau (Goettingen State and University Library and DRIVER), Joyce
Ogburn (University of Utah), Terry Owen (University of Maryland,
College Park), Kathleen Shearer (Canadian Association of Research
Libraries), Alma Swan (Key Perspectives Ltd.), Sean Thomas
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Susan Veldsman (eIFL), and
Charles Watkinson (The American School of Classical Studies at
Athens).
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Jennifer McLennan
Director of Communications
SPARC
(202) 296-2296 ext. 121
(202) 872-0884 Fax