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

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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