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A Feasibility Study of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Open-Access Repository

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Spring 2012 Project Briefings / A Feasibility Study of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Open-Access Repository

March 30, 2012

Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Research Data Management
Johns Hopkins University
Mark Cyzyk
Scholarly Communications Architect
Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), in partnership with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the University of Michigan (UM), has conducted a study of the feasibility of building an open access repository to collect, store, manage, preserve, and make broadly available the reports of research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), should NSF choose to implement such a repository. The study examined the technical, policy, and business dimensions of such an undertaking through, first, a series of workshops that convened a diverse range of interested parties and potential stakeholders, including libraries, publishers and professional societies. The analysis team, secondly, considered four categories of approaches that might be taken in the construction of an open access repository of NSF materials:

Category 1 – Locally installed system(s)
Category 2 – Large-scale hosted systems
Category 3 – A federation of systems
Category 4 – A custom solution

The protocol for evaluation was based upon a framework developed previously through a JHU-led analysis of open-source electronic publishing systems. This presentation will focus on the results of the analysis and recommendations for NSF.

 

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Filed Under: CNI Spring 2012 Project Briefings, E-Science, Publishing, Repositories
Tagged With: CNI2012spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Last updated:  Friday, March 30th, 2012

 

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