Judith Russell
Dean of University Libraries
University of Florida
Todd Digby
Chair, Library IT
University of Florida
This project briefing describes the progress of an institutional repository (IR) pilot project as it expands into an initiative that promotes innovative, community-wide approaches that facilitate compliance and diverse access to publicly funded research. Phase I of the pilot included a collaboration between the University of Florida (UF) Institutional Repository (IR@UF) and Elsevier that can deliver published versions of UF-authored articles to IR@UF users. Building on this project, UF and the Clearinghouse for Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) have engaged additional universities, research institutions, government labs and publisher members to increase participation in a project that 1) identifies articles authored by faculty, staff, and students; 2) monitors them for public access; and 3) facilitates discovery and access through the IR. Phase I began with comprehensive identification of articles by UF authors using API-delivery of Science Direct metadata; Phase II deploys full-text searching with links to published articles or full text view options for users with diverse access status. Accompanying this IR initiative is exploration of compliance practices and open access publishing by UF authors. The Phase II CHORUS project expands these efforts, engaging a wide range of institutions and publishers, all with the shared delivery of real-time compliance dashboards, enhanced metadata deposition, full text indexing and linking and streaming content within an institution’s IR. UF currently acts as an advisor, collaborator, co-designer and usability interface analyst. This project briefing presents preliminary usability results and views of the user experience. Additional researchers on this project include Alicia Wise (Elsevier) and Robert Phillips, Laura Spears, and Chelsea Dinsmore (all of UF).
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ielsevier
http://www.chorusaccess.org/
http://www.infodocket.com/2016/09/21/chorus-signs-letter-of-agreement-with-u-of-florida-and-scopus-increasing-us-funder-public-access-compliance-pilot/
