| 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.