Transcript - University of Huddersfield Repository

Publishing and the
University Repository
Raising your research profile
Graham Stone
Repository Manager
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Where to publish?
• You could leave the
decision until after you
have written your paper
– Fine for experienced
researchers
• For early career
researchers the more
certain you are about
which journal you are
aiming for, the easier it is
to write the paper
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Making the right choice
• Selecting the wrong journal
– Research dismissed due to
lack of expertise in the
subject area
– Publication held up for
months in the review
process and then dismissed
– No proper peer review due
to lack of expertise
– Published and never read –
wrong area
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Ask yourself these questions
• Where would I read articles
in my research area?
• What are the best journals
in my field?
• Are they still publishing in
my research area?
• Is readership at the level I
want to influence?
• How often do they publish?
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Look before you leap
• Before you submit
– Look at the TOCs
– Read the notes to
contributors
– Read the editorials
– Check the Journal Citation
Reports
– Ask your colleagues/peers
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Limitations of traditional
publishing
• Access limited for:
– Researchers, especially
• across disciplines
• in low income
countries
• at smaller institutions
• working from home or
remotely
– Funding bodies
– Society as a whole
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Accessibility of NHS-funded
articles to public
Article accessibility to general public
No online
full text
10%
Subscription
full text
56%
Free full text
via PubMed
(HTA)
15%
Free full text
via PubMed
(other)
7%
Other free full
text
4%
Embargoed
full text
8%
Accessibility of NHS-funded
articles within the NHS
Article accessibility within the NHS
No online
full text
10%
Inaccessible
(NHS does not
subscribe)
46%
Immediately
accessible full
text
37%
Embargoed
full text
7%
Open Access is…
• Free and immediate online access to
research... without any barriers (other
than connecting to the Internet)
• Permanent archiving in international
repositories
• Authors/Creators retain copyright, and
agree that anyone is free
– to copy, distribute, and display the work
– to make derivative works
– to make commercial use of the work
– provided that the original authors/creators
are given credit
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Open Access Publishing
• There are two main open-access routes
– Gold or author-pays
• authors (supported by their funders) pay the costs of publishing in
an open-access or hybrid journal so that peer-reviewed articles then
appear online and can be accessed immediately for free.
– Green
• Authors self-archive the final peer-reviewed versions of their articles
in an institutional repositories, where they are available for anyone
to view.
Citations and downloads
“Open access articles receive 50% more full-text
accesses and PDF downloads than subscriptionaccess articles”
Kenneth R. Fulton, PNAS Publisher
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0505/msg01580.html
“…OA articles are cited earlier and are, on average,
cited more often than non-OA articles”
Eysenbach G (2006) Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biol 4(5):
e157. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157
Why put your research
into the Repository?
• Visibility
– Showcasing university research
• Accountability
– Getting ready for the REF
– ‘As part of the REF, the funding bodies aim to identify and reward the
impact that excellent research has had on society and the economy,
and to encourage the sector to build on this to achieve the full potential
impact across a broad range of research activity in the future’
• Preservation
– Collecting together all research material generated by university staff
• To increase your citations!
The University Repository
• Total
– 8861 items
• 2863 on Open Access
• 32%
• 2008– 3118 items
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• 1598 on Open Access
• 51%
The ingredients
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Articles
Book chapters
Books
Conference papers
• …and more
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‘Words are only context, not the final form’
Stephanie Meece, UAL
Art, music and performance
• You may have something born
digital
• Or a representation of an event
• Or (more likely) a combination
– Film
– Still posters
– Flyers and promotions
– Text or links to reviews
– Accompanying text
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Theses
• 260 PhD theses
• Since 2007, all theses are
made available on Open
Access
– Subject to embargo if:
• Seeking publication (2 yrs)
• Commercial in confidence
(10 yrs)
• Data Protection (indefinite)
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The 175th best Repository in the World!
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University of Southampton (Electronics and
Computer Science)
2. Natural Environmental Research Council
3. University of Southampton
4. UCL
5. University of Durham
6. Lancaster University
7. Open University
8. LSE
9. White Rose Consortium
10. University of Glasgow
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12.University of Huddersfield
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University of Lincoln
University of Kent
School of Advanced Studies
Measuring success
85,041 full text downloads in the last 12 months
Tracking usage
• Usage statistics are
available for all full text
items
• Possible to deduce from
a spike in the patterns
that someone just cited
your work?
Tracking usage
Theses stats
Copyright
• Provide us with the ‘author accepted’ version of your
research
– that is the author-created version that incorporates referee
comments and is the version accepted for publication
• We link to the published version
• We check copyright
Pinfield, Stephen, Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship? Learned Publishing, 2009, 22 (3), 165-175
How to deposit
• Login to the
Repository
– Follow the screens
• Contact the
Repository Team,
– [email protected]
Over to you…
I've also had a number of
international scholars and
research students read my
articles and listen to the music
I have available in the
repository, as a result, I am
now pursuing collaborative
research projects with music
studios and researchers in
Mexico and Norway.
Monty Adkins
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Graham Stone
[email protected]
http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/10021/