Poster presented by Adam Rusbridge at IFLA 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden

1. From pre-print to out-of-print: EDINA’s role
in supporting access to journal articles
EDINA plays a leading role in national and international initiatives to As the number of open access journals continues to expand so does
support access throughout the research and article life-cycle, aiding the use of repositories, institutional and subject, enabling
the discovery, location and long term access to journals and articles researchers to deposit freely available pre-prints. However, the
from pre-print to out-of-print. discovery, location and long term preservation of both subscription
and open access journals and their contents, articles, remain vital
Published articles continue as the primary means of formal components of the research cycle and a core concern for the library
scholarly communication. As the academic world embraces open community.
access, access to articles is opened beyond the privileged few.
In-print: SUNCAT Out-of-Print: PEPRS and CLOCKSS
Supporting discovery and access Supporting preservation and access
The Serials UNion CATalogue (SUNCAT) for the UK research community is a free tool to help researchers and There is concern about the stability of e-journal titles following discontinuation by the original publisher, and a
librarians locate serials held in the UK. It provides information on the serials data of over 75 libraries and as such is number of preservation agencies have emerged to provide continuing access to content. The PEPRS project activity,
the single most comprehensive source of UK serials holdings information. Serials holdings from new libraries will be jointly led by EDINA with the ISSN International Centre, provides a registry service to provide easily accessible
added over time. information about inclusion of journals in preservation services and highlighting those e-journals for which no
arrangements exist.
• The catalogue includes information about the holdings of the British Library, the National
Libraries of Scotland and Wales and the Directory of Open Access Journals. It also includes bibliographic EDINA also supports open access to discontinued content through participation in CLOCKSS (Controlled
recordsfrom CONSER and the ISSN Register. LOCKSS), a not for profit joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and
• Participating libraries freely contribute and regularly update their holdings data to open research libraries. The mission of CLOCKSS is to build a sustainable, geographically
up and promote access to their journal collections to the UK and beyond distributed archive to ensure the survival of e-journals for the benefit of the global
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where a particular title is held in the UK and also to find what serials exist in The University of Edinburgh is participating in CLOCKSS with three distinct
a specific subject area. SUNCAT also has the facility to limit a search
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geographically to a particular region, city or library, allowing users to LOC ACC
tailor their search to meet their needs. Librarians can also use ES • As a CLOCKSS steward library acting as an Archive Node and
SUNCAT to help their users locate serials, to locate serials for S& Delivery Host, preserving and making available e-journals
inter-library loan requests and for collection management RY following a failure to provide access from more traditional
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information on directions and access organizations governs the CLOCKSS archive.
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• Access the latest table of contents for more information IN JOURNAL
• Access the full text where available or link through to • As a host platform for triggered content via EDINA, a JISC
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their local document delivery service funded national data centre based at the University of
SUNCAT enables librarians to:
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Pre-Print: open Depot It does this by offering the following features:
• a re-direct service, nicknamed Repository Junction, to ensure that content that
comes within the remit of an existing institutional repository is correctly placed.
Supporting author deposit and access • accepts deposit of e-prints from researchers at institutions that do not currently have an
institutional repository. The principal target are e-prints; articles that have been peer-reviewed and
The Open Depot is an open access eprint repository hosted at EDINA to enable all academics worldwide to share the accepted for publication.
benefits of open access exposure for their research outputs. The service is available for all researchers worldwide who • as institutional repositories are established, the Open Depot will support the transfer of relevant content to help
are based at a university, college or research institution who currently do not have access to a local repository. populate those new IRs. Meantime, the Open Depot will act as a keep-safe, notifying institutions when deposits are
made.
The Open Depot is designed for authors’ peer reviewed material. Typically this will be an electronic duplicate of a • an OAI-compliant interface, so, like other open access repositories, its contents are available for harvesting.
peer-reviewed journal article. Preferably this will be the “author’s final version” but can be the published PDF file if the
publisher allows this. In either case this is the version of your article after all of the changes due to the peer review The purpose of the Open Depot is to provide a short-to-medium term open access repository for those academics whose
process have been incorporated into the text. institutions do not yet have a repository. Over time it is intended that each institution should establish its own
repository. At this point the content of the Open Depot will be transferred to each depositor’s institutional repository.
The Open Depot is also provided as an international facility geared to support the policies of universities and national In this way, the Open Depot acts as a keep-safe facility.
funding agencies towards Open Access, aiding policy development in advance of a comprehensive institutional archive
network.
http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Home http://opendepot.org
PEPRS
http://edina.ac.uk/projects/peprs/ http://www.suncat.ac.uk
EDINA, a JISC national data centre, is responsible for the OpenDepot: Theo Andrew, theo.andrew@ed.ac.uk
design and development and responsible for the hosting CLOCKSS & PEPRS: Adam Rusbridge, a.rusbridge@ed.ac.uk
and delivery of these services. SUNCAT: Zena Mulligan, zena.mulligan@ed.ac.uk