Transcript e-Print Repositories for research visibility: time to deposit

e-Print Repositories for
Research Visibility:
Time to Deposit
Pauline Simpson
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Jessie Hey
17/10/03
Road map
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Scholarly communication alternatives
e-Print Archives
e-Prints Soton
How to make your research more visible
now
Primary channel
- Scholarly Communication –
present model
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Bibliometrics – citation analysis, impact factors
Evaluation – RAE, Tenure, Promotion
Research funding proposals
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‘Crisis in Scholarly Communication’
alternate models
• Open Access Journals • Open Archives Initiatives
•‘Open’ = freely accessible - ‘open access journals’
•‘Open’ = interoperable - Open Archives Initiative
BioMed Central - JISC funding payment of $500 per article 7/03Publication charge paid
= free online access to all
Publication charge not paid = subscription only access
Changing Publishing Paradigm
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Readers
Information flow through Open Archives model
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OAI data providers
Hybrid
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Archive/
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Readers
OAI service providers
Citation analysis
TARDis
• HEFCE – JISC Programme - Focus on Access to
Institutional Resources (FAIR) £196,000
• Aug 2002 – Jan 2005 (30 months)
• Project Team
– Project Director : Sheila Corrall
– Project Manager: Pauline Simpson
– Advocacy : Jessie Hey
– Software : Chris Gutteridge / Tim Brody
– Admin : Natasha Lucas
TARDis Aims
• To set up a sustainable Southampton ePrint archive
e-Prints Soton
• To gain content – full text documents
• Targeting Academic Resources for
Deposit and Disclosure
What are e-Prints?
e-Prints are:
• electronic copies of any research output
– journal articles, book chapters, conference papers etc even
multimedia
– they may include unpublished manuscripts and papers
prepared for publication (as copyright allows)
Also broader and narrower definitions:
Academic output - MIT
Peer-reviewed – Prof. Stevan Harnad (open access advocate)
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An e-Print archive is an internet based repository of
such digital scholarly publications which can provide
immediate and free worldwide access benefiting both
author and reader
e-Print archives
• Subject based e-Print archives (centred on
author deposit)
– Pioneering example is ArXiv set up by Paul Ginsparg at
Los Alamos in 1991
– Successful in limited subject areas
– Free EPrints Software developed at Southampton to
encourage more self archiving (JISC funding)
• Open Archives Initiative software standards
developed to enable cross searching (OAI-PMH)
• Alternate models proposed based on
institutional research output
arXiv usage yesterday
A national vision: e-Prints +
e-Learning + data
Diagram from eBank UK project
A national vision: ePrints
UK
ePrints UK architecture
www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk
TARDis
e-Prints Soton
Why contribute your work?
•To make your research more visible and available in
electronic form
• To promote your work and that of other academics within
your community
• To use it as a secure store for your research publications
- which can help you to respond to the many requests for
full text and publication data
• To contribute to national and global initiatives which will
ensure an international audience for your latest research
(other universities are developing their own archives which,
together, will be searchable by global search tools)
JRD role: to raise the profile of oceanographic
research within the UK and internationally
Raising the profile….
• 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?
http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/onli
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Southampton research
document types
Simplifying deposit in
EPrints software
Choose DIY or give the file
and sufficient information
for us to continue for you
Deposit Process
• Register yourself once
• Have the electronic copy ready and open
(print out of first page is also useful)
• Check copyright (journal transfer
agreements surveyed by Project RoMEO)
• Expect to add abstract, keywords
• Add any useful information on content
(eg enhanced diagrams) or to help cite it
• Check before submitting
• Can leave in workspace to finish later
Solving copyright problems
Check a journal’s copyright transfer agreement here
Journal Copyright
agreements
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Research by Project Romeo
Ensuring your copyright for
self-archiving
• "I hereby transfer to <publisher or
journal> all rights to sell or lease the text
(on-paper and on-line) of my paper <paper
title>. I retain the right to distribute it for
free for scholarly/scientific purposes, in
particular, the right to self-archive it
publicly online on the World Wide Web.
The author/s hereby assert their moral
rights in accordance with the UK Copyright
Designs and Patents Act (1988)."
Completed deposit – can be
updated if published
Cross searching academic resources finding the pearls
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Where and Who
• Deposit your work from now
• In e-Prints Soton
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
• Help from: [email protected]
• Jessie Hey – deposit assistance, database
development for groups
• Natasha Lucas – admin and assistance
• Pauline Simpson – Project Manager
• JRD e-Print representative?