VI. Conclusion and Future
Work
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Briefly talk about the origin and purposes of the deposit service, then
whether we reach the goals based upon the purposes (Michael)
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Future: collaborate with Research Office for promoting article deposit
service. Research Office include a link to deposit form in their
notifications to faculty that agency report is due. Just in time,
point of need deposit.(Michael)
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Future: the time and effort involved in the federal deposit service is
high, so switching to the OA form as the sole deposit mechanism
promises to provide a more efficient approach (Note for Michael:
Erin’s FTE)
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Future: Ingest metadata from external sources into the repository.
Harvest and auto-fill funding information from FundRef/CrossRef.
(Hui).
As other federal agencies bring their implementation plans online, we
intend to offer third party article deposit for all those agencies that
allow it. As most public agencies are using existing systems like PMC
that do already allow third party deposit, we expect to be able to offer
these deposit services to other agencies. While most agencies have
published their implementation plans, very few are fully in effect. For
example, NSF, which is by far the agency that provides the most grant
funding to our faculty, will not have their procedures implemented until
later this year.
There is potential that publisher and/or community article deposit
services could develop that supplant our service. Enabling centralized
article deposit to agency and institutional repositories is something
federal agencies, libraries, universities, institutes, and publishers
may develop in the future. We plan to continue to offer our service
until such mechanisms are in place.
We also see some potential for authors, departments, colleges, research
programs, our office of Institutional Research, and the Research Office
to track the articles that have resulted from grants from different
agencies and specific grant outputs. Using RDF, in the future we expect
to have the ability to retrieve data about research outputs based on the
presence