university of southampton institutional research repository – an update post compulsory education...

University of Southampton Institutional Research

Repository – an Update

Post Compulsory Education and Training, School of Education

12 Oct 2005

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk http://tardis.eprints.org

Jessie HeySouthampton University Library and School of Electronics and Computer Science

jmnh@ecs.soton.ac.uk

From local to global – a changing landscape

• Southampton growing steadily – just been linked to ISS userids and passwords

• Editing planned – will help with addition of full text

e-Prints UK73295 records harvested from 29 repositories

A local example!

Global search engine exampleWe are OAI compliant to be included

Our Institution Archives Registry to provide basis for OpenDOAR

External climate e.g. Copyright issues changing fast

Common e-Print deposit:

Postprint =Post refereed pre-journal version

We provide link to published version for joined up picture(often by a DOI)

As of today….Also JISC/SURF projects to aid IRs

RCUK position statement

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/whatsnew.asp19 April 2005

RCUK Consultation on access to and dissemination of the outputs of research

RCUK has agreed a position statement on access to and dissemination of the outputs of research funded by the Research Councils.

This information was circulated to Vice-Chancellors in March, to give them an opportunity to comment before the document is finalised. RCUK expect to formally release the statement in its definitive form in mid-May 2005……….

At last, proposed position statement 28th June

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/index.asp

RCUK proposes:• A requirement for all grants awarded from 1 October 2005 that, subject to

copyright and licensing arrangements, a copy of any resultant published journal articles or conference proceedings should be deposited in an appropriate e-print repository (either institutional or subject-based) wherever such a repository is available to the award-holder. Deposit should take place at the earliest opportunity, wherever possible at or around the time of publication.

• Research Councils will also encourage, but not formally oblige, award-holders to deposit articles arising from grants awarded before 1 October 2005.

• Councils will ensure that applicants for grants are allowed, subject to

justification of cost-effectiveness, to include in the costing of their projects the predicted costs of any publication in author-pays journals

The Councils are seeking views on their position statement published today (to 31st Aug 2005)

21 September 2005Research Councils UK moves forward with position

on access to research outputs

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/press/20050921rcuk.asp

Following the end of a period of consultation over the summer, Research Councils UK (RCUK) is maintaining momentum on its proposed position on access to research outputs. A final announcement is expected in November.

Will support full text in repositories

• It is more likely that any changes in grant conditions for Research Council funded researchers will only come into effect for grants awarded after early 2006.

• Most likely to suggest full text from April 2006

External momentum: currently 20+ UK

IRs starting but set to increase

Guardian March 14, 2005:Scottish universities sign open

access dealThe declaration commits each of its

16 university signatories to setting up online libraries of research findings and doctorate papers which all academics can access

A national and international development of IRs

• The JISC vision reflecting the individual repositories (JISC Inform no. 8)

Southampton Press Release 15 Dec 2004

'We see our Institutional Repository as a key tool for the stewardship of the University's digital research assets,' said Professor Paul Curran, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University. 'It will provide greater access to our research, as well as offering a valuable mechanism for reporting and recording it.

RAE management potential functionality – from demo to planned enhancement(also EPrints and DSpace RAE work starting for

UK in parallel) Simpson, Pauline and Hey, Jessie (2005) Forward in time: TARDis and the RAE. JISC Inform, No. 8, p.16.

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/14522/

Simpson, Pauline and Hey, Jessie (2005) Forward in time: TARDis and the RAE. JISC Inform, No. 8, p.16. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/14522/

Feedback: Perceived benefits to University, Schools and Researchers

• Secure storage of publications

– including also theses and dissertations, technical reports

• Links to projects and web pages

• Research reporting• Interdisciplinary

research

• University profile• School and discipline visibility• Researcher profile• Full text content freely accessible

• link to learning and teaching

• Increased citationsArticles 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?”

Future services eg adding a link to your web page – auto update

One good record

for many uses

Further potential for automating publicity tools – generating demand

Open Access briefing: pdf versionhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_openaccess

Research repository team

Include:

• Wendy White• Jessie Hey• Metadata: Natasha Lucas, Simon de

Montfalcon• Subject Librarians• New member: Adam White – technical

support

Further details

thank you from:

Jessie Hey (jmnh@ecs.soton.ac.uk)

Southampton University Research Repository (e-Prints Soton)

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk

eprints@soton.ac.uk

And your new school liaison librarian – Kate Walker

Open Access briefing paperhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_openaccess