martin borchert associate director, library services (information resources and research support)

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Strategies for gaining and maintaining academic support for the institutional open access repository

Martin Borchert

Associate Director, Library Services (Information Resources and Research Support)

Queensland University of Technology Library

Paula Callan

eResearch Access Coordinator

Queensland University of Technology Library

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Agenda

• About QUT• The importance of open

access • Framework for research

support • History of QUT ePrints • Advocacy • Policy • Library roles• Staff development

• Information, promotion, training and support

• Populating the repository• System integration • Usage statistics• Citation data• The future

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Open access

• OA for access• OA for equity • OA for speeding the research

cycle• OA for developing

collaborations • OA for increased citation rate• OA for increased impact • Green and Gold OA

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Framework for research support

• Library and ITS collaboration• Associate Director (Information

Resources and Research Support)

• Associate Director (High Performance Computing and Research)

• Library Research Support Team

• Research Support Committee• 8 of 26 Liaison Librarians have

a lead role in research support

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Framework for research support

• Researcher Support Strategy

• Welcome• Research skills• Consultations• Scholarly publishing • ePrints• Data management • Collaboration • Research impact• Computation • Data processing • Analysis • Visualisation

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Support for scholarly publishing

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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/

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Advocacy

• Executives• University Research and

Innovation Committee • Research Support

Committee • At all levels • Australian Open Access

Support Group (AOASG)• CAUL Research Advisory

Committee

http://aoasg.org.au/

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Policy

• The following materials must be included in QUT ePrints

– refereed research articles and conference papers at the post-peer review stage)

– digital theses submitted by research higher degree candidates

• The following materials may be included in QUT ePrints

– refereed research articles and conference papers at the pre-peer review stage (author's submitted manuscript) with corrigenda added following peer review if necessary

– books and book chapters – un-refereed research literature– creative works with a research

component – descriptions of research data and

datasets – research outputs in the form of

software or computer code. http://www.mopp.qut.edu.au/F/F_01_03.jsp

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Library roles

• Research Support Coordinator• Scholarly Communications

Librarian• Repository Resource Librarian• Resource Assistants • Liaison Librarians• Applications and Development

Team Leader • Programmer • Associate Director

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Staff development

• Research support seminars• Community of practice• Newsletter items• Train the trainer• Co-trainer• Peer assessment • Resources wiki

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Information, promotion, training and support

• Open access• Depositing into QUT ePrints • Scholarly communication• Gold open access • Open Access Week

celebrations• Making connections:

innovation in research at QUT

• ePrints email support • Web information • AskQUT

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Populating the repository

• Self deposit vs mediated deposit

• Scalability

• Usability • Incentives

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QUT ePrints

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Based on data extracted March 12 2013

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QUT ePrints

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System integration

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Embedding the Repository

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Support for research assessment

Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) (quantitative assessment)http://www.innovation.gov.au/Research/ResearchBlockGrants/Pages/HigherEducationResearchDataCollection.aspx

Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)

(qualitative assessment)http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_2012/era_2012.htm

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QUT ePrints

• http://eprints.qut.edu.au/• Mandate Policy since 2003 http://www.mopp.qut.edu.au/D/D_02_08.jsp • Self-deposit • GNU Eprints repository software

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QUT ePrints

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QUT ePrints

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QUT ePrints

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QUT ePrints

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The future...

• Automated ingest of records • Author name authority • NLA party identifiers • ORCID• Improved linking to academic

profiles • Improved linking to data

repository • Improved linking from QUT

Media Warehouse creative works repository Wayback machine

http://web.archive.org/web/20040508180558/http://eprints.qut.edu.au/

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