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Southampton University Research e-Prints: e-Prints Soton
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk
School of Medicine Discussion19 Jan 2005
Pauline SimpsonElizabeth Robertson, Sue Forsey
Trevor Bryant, Peter Gibbs, Peter LackieBarbara Thomas
In an ideal world– all research freely available
• Majority of research output through journal publications
• Journals available on subscription• Last 5 years
– Library budget risen 12%– Journals risen 50%
• Restricts access – solutions……..
Solutions
2 complementary routes to Open Access to Research
• Open Access journals• Open Access repositories
• Self archiving subject precedents – not widely successful
• 2002 - JISC FAIR (Focus on Access to Institutional Resources) – funding - UK Universities
• House of Commons Committee report July 2004 supports Institutional Repositories
An Institutional Research Repository for Southampton
• Institutional Repository for Research already set up (e-Prints Soton)
• Southampton University Research e-Prints – in the forefront -
working with multidisciplinary schools – now supported by University
• has capacity for adding full text (e-Prints) if available– Electronic copies of any research output e.g. journal articles,
book chapters, conference papers even multimedia
e-Prints Soton evolution
• Original intent to provide secure storage for the full text of Southampton research output (e-Print Archive in which post refereed pre published versions of papers are deposited by researchers)
• Maximum benefit if the exercise also assisted researchers with time consuming research reporting tasks :RAE, Univ. Research Report, web pages, research proposals, CVs etc
• Evolved to publications database with full text where available
Southampton’s Institutional Repository
Deposit checking and added information
Benefits to University, Schools and Researchers
• Secure storage of publications
– including theses and dissertations, technical reports
• Links to projects and web pages
• Research reporting
• University profile• School and discipline visibility• Researcher profile• Full text content freely accessible
• link to learning and teaching
Increased citations
Articles freely available online are more highly cited. For greater impact and faster scientific progress, authors and publishers should aim to make research easy to access Nature, Volume 411, Number 6837, p. 521, 2001 Steve Lawrence “Online or Invisible?”
RAE management
Select your RAE choices
Add measures of esteem
Data available to Head of School
Copyright issues
Postprint = post refereed pre-journal version
Publisher policy check
Potential of adding a link to your web page
High profile of e-Prints Soton – so give if you deposit full text the world can read
Global open archive search – OAIster http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
and now
Google Scholar
(and Elsevier)
Collaboration with schools
• Central to research recording and visibility
• Working to integrate into the research recording workflow
• Working to incorporate RAE data 2000-
• Some support included for import depending on availability of previous records
• Goal: self deposit plus support for new records with full text
Repositories of the future-joined up research
CNI Spring 2004 24
Learning & Teaching workflows
Research & e-Science workflows
Aggregator services: national, commercial
Repositories : institutional, e-prints, subject, data, learning objects
Data curation: databases & databanks
Institutional presentation services: portals, Learning Management Systems, u/g, p/g courses, modules
Validation
Harvestingmetadata
Data creation / capture / gathering: laboratory experiments, Grids, fieldwork, surveys, media
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Deposit / self-archiving
Peer-reviewed publications: journals, conference proceedings
Publication
Validation
Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Deposit / self-archiving
Learning object creation, re-use
Searching , harvesting, embedding
Quality assurance bodies
Validation
Presentation services: subject, media-specific, data, commercial portals
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Linking