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Southampton University Research e-Prints:
e-Prints Soton
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk
School of Medicine Discussion
19 Jan 2005
Pauline Simpson
Elizabeth Robertson, Sue Forsey
Trevor Bryant, Peter Gibbs, Peter Lackie
Barbara 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
•
University profile
• School and
discipline visibility
• Researcher profile
• Full text content
freely accessible
• link to learning and
teaching
Increased citations
•
Secure storage of
publications
–
including theses and
dissertations, technical
reports
•
Links to projects and
web pages
•
Research reporting
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
Presentation services: subject, media-specific, data, commercial portals
Data creation /
capture /
gathering:
laboratory
experiments,
Grids,
fieldwork,
surveys, media
Resource
discovery, linking,
embedding
Data analysis,
transformation,
mining, modelling
Searching ,
harvesting,
embedding
Aggregator
services: national,
commercial
Resource
discovery,
linking,
embedding
Learning object
creation, re-use
Harvesting
metadata
Research &
e-Science
workflows
Validation
Deposit / selfarchiving
Learning &
Teaching
workflows
Repositories :
institutional,
e-prints, subject,
data, learning objects
Validation
Publication
Resource
discovery, linking,
embedding
Linking
Data curation:
databases & databanks
Deposit / selfarchiving
Institutional
presentation
services: portals,
Learning
Management
Systems, u/g, p/g
courses, modules
Peer-reviewed
publications: journals,
conference proceedings
CNI Spring 2004
Validation
Quality
assurance
bodies
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