UK Institutional Repository Search & IESR

Vic Lyte & Jo Lambert

23rd June 2010

» Mimas overview

» Mimas services & projects

» Background to IRS & IESR

» UK Institutional Repository Search (IRS)

» IESR

Outline

Mimas» National data centre based at The University of

Manchester

» Develops services that support teaching, learning and research

» Serves UK Higher Education, UK Further Education and the broader technology and research community

Mimas services & projects» Teaching and learning materials

» Primary research data

» Discovery tools

» E-journals

IRS context» Growth in Institutional Repositories

» Requirement to showcase what was happening in UK IR’s

» Lightweight search capability provided by IR software

» Basic ‘Google’ search is good but not sufficient

What is IRS?» Cross-search UK HE institutional repositories

» Full-text search to discover open access content

» Free, targeted search tool

» Engagement with the user community informs development

Benefits of using IRS» Cross-search 103 HE repositories» Access to @600,000 deposited papers» Faster & more relevant search» New discovery constructs:

› Subject browsing› Serendipitous browsing› Surfacing relationships, conceptual and

contextual relevance

Who does IRS benefit?» The research community by providing an effective,

personalised search and discovery service

» Academics in promoting awareness of their research

» Institutions in promoting research output to a global audience

What is IESR?» Aims to provide a ‘Yellow Pages’ for the academic

internet

» Free catalogue of information about e-resources and research collections

» Supports discovery & use of scholarly resources

Who is it for and how is it used?» UK academic community

› Assists resource discovery› Promotes research

» Search or browse content

» Create customised RSS alerts for new content

» Register details of your research centre or department

Content› Journals (UKPMC)› Bibliographic resources (WoK, Zetoc)› Databases (EMBASE)› Open access repositories (OpenDOAR)› Social sciences datasets (Census, ESDS)› Learning and teaching resources (Jorum)› Research publications (Ingenta)› Longitudinal surveys (HSE)

Benefits of using IESR» Users

› Discover quality assured academic e-resources and research collections

› Single place to find resources› Flexible access to content (website, search plug-ins, RSS, M2M)› Discover “invisible web” resources that search engines can’t access

» Contributors › Promote collections to wider audiences› Increase awareness and use› Access to a collections management tool

IRS » Freely available» Showcases research

papers» Discover information

about items» Conceptual and contextual

links» User-focused design &

development

IESR» Freely available» Showcases research

collections» Discover information

about collections» Information about related

collections» User-focused design &

development

Summary

URLs

» Mimas http://mimas.ac.uk/

» IRS http://irs.mimas.ac.uk/demonstrator/

» IESR http://iesr.ac.uk/

Thank you

Vic Lyte vic.lyte@manchester.ac.uk

Jo Lambert jo.lambert@manchester.ac.uk