University Open Access Initiatives: Institutional Repository in the University Information Infrastructure
Abstract
In 2012, the university library of the Czech Technical University in Prague was integrated in the Institutional development plan of the university and has been appointed a role to establish and administrate the institutional repository and to coordinate all open access-related activities throughout the university. In practice, a repository was established in order to store and provide access to electronic theses and dissertations, and research outputs of the university community and steps have been taken to integrate it into the information infrastructure of the university and into the everyday information work flow.
On the organizational level, cooperation between the library and individual researchers and departments has been established in order to examine the user behavior and attitude towards providing free access to their full texts, to educate them in terms of their rights regarding self-archiving and prepare them to the full text archiving policy/practice, which the university will eventually set, with close cooperation with the library. On the technical level, in cooperation with the Computer and information center of the university and with individual faculties and researchers, the repository has been interconnected with Library system, Study information system, University CRIS system, System of monitoring scientific erudition of the faculty for the purpose of awarding professor titles, and steps have been taken to establish automatic data flow from all these systems into the repository and to interconnect the repository with international search engines.
The poster presents the interconnection of individual departments, systems and processes as perceived by the library/repository and determines the role of each individual entity and data flow in the scheme. It will also illustrate the library's role in further Open Access-related activities that are as well related to the repository, as for example the support of Gold Open Access at the university.