Open Access

Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, US, October 21-22 1999

Sponsors: Council on Library and Information Resources, the Digital Library Federation, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, Association of Research Libraries, the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Meeting moderators: Clifford Lynch & Don Waters.

Represented institutions/organizations: American Physical Society, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Association of Research Libraries, California Institute of Technology, Coalition for Networked Information, Cornell University, Council on Library and Information Resources, Digital Library Federation, Harvard University, HighWire Press, Library of Congress, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NASA Langley, Old Dominion University, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, University of California, University of Ghent, University of Southampton, University of Surrey, Vanderbilt University, Virginia Tech and Washington University.

Represented eprint-initiatives: arXiv.org (=xxx), CogPrints, NDLTD, RePEc, EconWPA, NCSTRL, NTRS

- An non-profit organisation
- Brief history
* 2002: project developed by Hewlett Packard and MIT.
* 2004: DSpace Federation was formed.
* Jul 2007: The DSpace Foundation was formed, led by Michele Kimpton.

- An not-for-profit organisation

- An not-for-profit commercial services organisation
- Brief history
* October 1999: A turnkey repository platform promised by Professor Stevan Harnad & Professor Les Carr at initial OAI (UPS) meeting in Santa Fe.
* Apr 2000: Rob Tansley begins work on EPrints
* Jun 2000: EPrints beta-1 released. Cogprints archive created.
* Sep 2000: EPrints beta-2 released. Rob Tansley leaves the EPrints Project Christopher Gutteridge joins the EPrints Project.
* Nov 2000: EPrints 1.0 released, contains OAI 0.2 support.
* Jan 2001: EPrints 1.1 released, contains OAI 1.0 support. Work begins on EPrints 2.
* Jan 2002: EPrints 2 Alpha-2 (Pepperoni) released.
* Aug 2001: EPrints 2 Alpha-1 (Anchovy) released.
* Jun 2001: Mike Jewell joins EPrints, working primarily on installer software.
* 1 Jul 2002: EPrints offically joins GNU Project.
* 17 Apr 2002: EPrints 2.0.1 (Tuna) released. Mostly bugfixes.
* 14 Feb 2002: EPrints 2.0 (Olive) released.

- In May 2007, with a $5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Sandy Payette established Fedora Commons as an independent non-profit organisation.
- The goal of Fedora Commons was to build a community of scholarly, scientific and educational users who would openly collaborate with the Fedora Commons team to continue developing the open source software.

A low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability.

by the University of Southampton

The original SHERPA partnership was formed for the SHERPA project (2002-2006) and drew from research-led universities with an active interest in establishing an example of a then-new concept - an open access institutional repository. After a year, the original 7 development partners were joined by 6 more partners to form a partnership of 21 individual institutions. We now have 34 partners and affiliates overall, consisting of 32 HE institutions, the STFC and the British Library.

SHERPA achieved its original goals ahead of schedule and within budget and has been an active presence on the developing field of institutional repository use. The partnership has now gone on to collaborate in a number of other open access projects.

The partnership is a large and varied consortium and has within its membership a range of examples of repository environments and institutional structures. The partners are all research-led institutions, all with practical experience of building and populating eprint repositories. As such they are well placed to take full advantage of the facilities that eprint repositories and extended-data repositories can offer. This strong and varied consortial background offers the ideal environment for exploring and testing ideas for repository development, which can be evaluated and disseminated to the wider community.

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education. As a catalyst for action, SPARC focuses on collaborating with other stakeholders—including authors, publishers, libraries, students, funders, policymakers and the public—to build on the opportunities created by the Internet, promoting changes to both infrastructure and culture needed to make open the default for research and education.

The key to SPARC’s success is the commitment of our members to support and shape our initiatives. Our 240+ members are primarily academic and research libraries located in the U.S. and Canada, who use the resources and support provided by SPARC to actively promote Open Access to scholarly articles, the open sharing of research data, and the creation and adoption of Open Educational Resources on their campuses.