Poster given at the 9th Open Repositories conference held in Helsinki June 2014

1. Publications RouterFormerly called ‘Repository Junction Broker’
Offer to Supplier:
• Forward your content directly to IRs
• Expose your OA content through GUI and
• API for browsing and downloading
• Accept your metadata: metadata only,
• metadata and OA full-text, or metadata and
embargoed full-text
• Identify target IRs using affiliation in your
metadata
• Allow onward tracking of your content
(when supported by target IRs)
Delivering Open Access Content to Institutions
The Jisc Publications Router is a middleware tool that automates the direct delivery of research articles
between multiple data suppliers such as publishers and subject repositories and multiple individual
repositories (IRs).
The Publications Router:
• Offers a delivery service between publishers and IRs worldwide
• Increases number of deposits in IRs
• Minimises the efforts required of potential depositors and repository staff
• Maximises distribution and exposure of research output
• Supports compliance to funders mandates and the UK Research for Excellence
The Publications Router does this by:
• Accepting data objects such as research articles
• Extracting authors’ affiliations from the metadata provided to determine appropriate target repositories
• Transferring publications to repositories registered with the service
• Exposing Open Access (OA) content for browsing via a web based GUI and for harvesting via
machine-to-machine APIs
• Notifying users, via self-registration email alerts, when relevant content is available
The Publications Router provides an effective solution to Open Access content dissemination.
http://broker.edina.ac.uk/
Subject Repository
Author
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Subject Repository
Offers to
Consumer:
RECEIVE OA CONTENT DIRECT TO YOUR IR
Direct Delivery of OA content
• Get OA content from all data
suppliers to IR SWORD endpoint
• Get all content using one single
metadata format
• Importer scripts available for Eprints 3.3. & 3.2,
DSpace 1.8
RECEIVE CONTENT DIRECT TO YOUR IR
Direct Delivery of All content
• Get OA and embargoed content
from all data suppliers to IR SWORD
endpoint
• Agree to manage embargo periods
• Get all content using one single
metadata format
• Importer scripts available for Eprints 3.3. & 3.2
CHECK WHAT CONTENT YOU COULD ADD
TO YOUR IR
Browse
• See all OA content from all data
suppliers
• Web GUI http://broker.edina.ac.uk/
• Search by target repository and author
BRING CONTENT TO YOUR IR
Harvest
• Get all OA content from all data suppliers
• Use OAI-PMH APIs
http://broker.edina.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
• Search by target repository, author and
funder
• Choose from multiple formats
KNOW WHEN NEW CONTENT IS
AVAILABLE
Notification
• Receive monthly email alerts of new
content from all data suppliers for
chosen repositories
• Self-register at http://broker.edina.ac.uk/cgi/
postcard_registration
Disseminate
your
Content
Get
Content
5. EXPOSE OA DATA
Expose OA Data: GUI and API
access to catalogue enables
search by author, repository
and funder
4. SEND DATA
Support SWORD for delivery
and email for notification
3. STORE DATA
Allow transfer of back
catalogue when joining
2. PROCESS DATA
Transform supplier metadata
to our format, exposing
selected fields including
embargo, grant and funders
code
1. RECEIVE DATA
Customise importers to support
supplier format
Institutional
Repository
CRIS
Institutional
Repository
Publishers
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Publications Router