RJ Broker: Automating Delivery of Research Output to Repositories
- 1. RJ Broker:
Automating Delivery of Research
Output to Repositories
Muriel Mewissen – EDINA
http://broker.edina.ac.uk
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- 2. Overview
• What is the broker
• Early results
• Levels of service
• What the broker can do for your
institution
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- 3. Focus
• To increase the number of deposits to UK repositories
• To minimise effort by depositors and IR managers
Support Open Access & Funder mandates
Institutional Repo
Subject repo
Publishers
Author 2 /
Representative
Funders
Publisher System
CRIS
CRIS
IR
Author/PI
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Broker
IR
IR
- 4. RJ Broker Function
RJ Broker provides a delivery service for research
output:
1. Take in data (research articles)
2. Use the metadata to identify recipients (repositories)
3. Transfer the data (or a notification)
4. Provide a tracking ID
5. Hold the data for collection
Global outlook with a UK focus
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- 5. RJ Broker Middleware Tool
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1. Accept deposit of research articles
Bespoke format, SWORD, Eprints
2. Process the deposits into a common format
bespoke RJ Broker format
3. Extract authors’ affiliation from metadata and use it
to identify target repositories
Organisation and Repository Identification (ORI)
http://ori.edina.ac.uk/
4. Transfer deposits to registered repositories
SWORD, plugins (Eprints, DSpace, Fedora)
5. Provide tracking ID to content supplier
URIs
6. Notify repositories with relevant content
Monthly email
7. Allow browsing, search and download
GUI & APIs (Eprints)
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3
4
5
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- 6. Road to Service
Projects supported by Jisc:
1. Build tool
2. ‘Real’ data trial – 2013
3. Beta service for early adopters – 2014
4. Service – from Aug 2015
Ongoing technical development & user recruitment
and support
http://broker.edina.ac.uk
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- 7. Data Trials
February 2013 to July 2013
In
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Out
Europe PMC
~84,000
metadata,
unrestricted
records
Receiving,
Processing,
Storing,
Identifying
target IRs
RJ Broker
(Dev)
Nature
Publishing
Group
~300 full-text
embargoed
records
Routing,
Sending to
EPrints &
DSpace IRs
RJ Broker
(Dev)
ERA @ University of
Edinburgh
Research @
University of St
Andrews
Spiral @ Imperial
College
DSpace
OpenDepot.org
City Research Online
@ City University
London
EPrints
- 9. Beta Service For Early Adopters
Recruiting NOW!
In
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Out
Europe PMC
> 80,000
metadata,
unrestricted
records
Receiving,
Processing,
Storing,
Identifying
target IRs
RJ Broker
Europe PMC
SOON
Full-text
unrestricted
records
Routing,
Sending to
EPrints &
DSpace IRs
RJ Broker
Your IR
Your IR
DSpace
Your IR
Your IR
EPrints
- 10. RJ Broker Content in Numbers
Country – Institution – Supplier List
• Dev: http://devel.edina.ac.uk:1203/stats/targets.html
• Live: http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/test/broker2.html
Date – Supplier – Organisation – Repository Wheel
• Dev: http://devel.edina.ac.uk:1203/stats/index.html
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- 11. Levels of Service
1. Browse
• http://broker.edina.ac.uk/
• Non restriction to OA content
• By repository
• By author
Check the content you could bring to your
repository
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- 12. Levels of Service
2. Download
• http://broker.edina.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
• OAI-PMH APIs
• By repository
• By author
• By funder
• Supports several format
• Non restriction to OA content
Bring content to your repository
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- 13. Levels of Service
3. Notification
• Monthly email of citation list for a repository
• By registration
• Select one of more repository
• Provide email address
• Coming soon
• http://devel.edina.ac.uk:1203/cgi/postcard_registration
Know when new content is available
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- 14. Levels of Service
4. OA Content Delivery
• Direct delivery to your repository as soon as content
is received
• By registration
• Provide SWORD credentials
• Install an importer (available for EPrints 3.2 & 3.3 & DSpace
1.8.*)
• OA content
• Metadata
• Some full-text
• Register now!
Receive OA content directly in your repository
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- 15. Levels of Service
5. OA & embargoed Content Delivery
• Direct delivery to your repository as soon as content is
received
• By registration
• Provide SWORD credentials
• Install an importer (available for EPrints 3.2 & 3.3)
• Accept legal agreement
• OA & Embargo content
• Metadata
• Full-text
• Register now!
Receive ALL content directly in your repository
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- 16. Why join?
1. Effective solution to content dissemination
• Increase number of deposit in IRs
• Support OA (Gold & Green)
• Support promotion of research output
2. Saves time & effort (money)
• Reduce work needed to enter content in IR
• Reduce keying errors
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- 17. Why join?
3. Help with reporting & compliance to mandates
• Support for metadata & standards
RIOXX, ORCID, V4OA, NISO OA Metadata indicators, ISNI …
• Funder & grant codes, versions, embargoes
4. Europe PMC estimates ~160,000 records per
month
• Work on getting more content from publishers
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- 18. Why Join?
5. Future plans
• More sources of content, publishers, etc
• Support for more repository platforms & versions
• Support for CRIS
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- 19. Thank You!
• Development team at EDINA
• Support from Jisc Repository Shared Services
and other previous projects
• Trial participants: Nature Publishing Group,
Wellcome Trust, Europe PMC, MIMAS & EBI,
University of Edinburgh, MIT, University of St
Andrews, City University London, and Imperial
College.
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