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WRRO Update WRRO: advocacy, academic reactions and links with Research Information Systems Rachel Proudfoot White Rose Research Online Officer Supporting open access A fun author rights video Open Access 101 from SPARC 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Brief WRRO refresher Three common reactions from researchers Stats Communications Research Information Systems White Rose Research Online Repository – online database of research papers Where possible, made freely available to all All research staff at Leeds, Sheffield and York can deposit “RAE” type – REF type content: Peer-reviewed, give-away literature ordinarily behind a subscription barrier Books (White Rose Etheses Online) Who? All of us! Steering Group: Bo Middleton, Denise Harrison, Elizabeth Harbord Advocacy Group: Jane Saunders, Marion Tattersall, Karen Smith WRRO staff: Rachel Proudfoot, Archana SharmaOates Leeds: Jodie Double, John Salter, Gemma Storr Sheffield: Anthea Tucker York: Lucy Jaques Open Access Routes “Gold route”: open access publishing Hybrid journals: publishers have their cake and eat it! “Green route”: self-archiving Scenario handout What issues are raised by the academics’ reaction? How would you respond? “I signed away my copyright to Massive Publishing Inc. There’s no way I can deposit. I don’t want to get sued.” Just because you signed your copyright away, don’t assume you can’t self-archive (Just because you kept your copyright, don’t assume you can do what the heck you want!) http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ (What are the key publishers in your area?) Nothing goes live straight away Seek permission Manage risk Reassurance: if in doubt, deposit anyway “I’m sure this repository thing is all very laudable but I’m busy. I’ve got links to my publications on my web site, you can just take them and do whatever you want with them. Though, to be honest, I can’t see anyone going to this White Rose site to read stuff.” Scalability Is there anyone in the department who can help? What versions are on the web site? How can we get their new publications? Adding an individual record is very quick (a few minutes) Usage statistics Personal pages often have dead links Will this problem be solved by Research Information Systems? Misunderstanding – how WRRO accessed. “Oh, so the copy in the WR repository isn’t the same as the one in the journal? I’m not sure I like that idea. Anyway, my research is very specialised – everyone who needs to read it already can.” Assumption that all potential readers can access Is some access better than no access? Front page – clarifies version to the end user Include DOI / link to published copy Funders: AHRC: “ensure deposit of a copy of any resultant articles published in journals or conference proceedings in an appropriate repository“ “[respect] current copyright and licensing policies” Statistics Authors love stats! IRS monthly download for the entire repository and at the individual paper/thesis level, visitors list the top ten papers/theses, top ten university domains, keywords with full text download traffic from search engines and other sites downloads from particular countries Useful impact data Canonical correlation analysis http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/9225/ End Sept 2006: NIPS 2006 workshop linked to this eprint from its webpage http://www.idiap.ch/lce/ End Jan 2007: external reference on the Wikipedia "Canonical correlation” page at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title =Canonical_correlation University of Southampton & Key Perspectives (2007) Interoperable Repository Statistics. JISC Digital Deluge Conference, Manchester, June 5th - 6th. http://irs.eprints.org/ [accessed 26/11/09] From Google Analytics Last 12 months 127,652 unique visitors came from 202 countries/territories 329,258 Page Views UK Top referring USA site Search Engines Referring Sites Direct Traffic Canada India Australia Germany China RSS feed Information Studies Twitter http://twitter.com /wrro WRRO Communication Strategy Key messages White Rose research will be easy to find and reach a wide audience. Open access raises the profile of individual researchers. Open access is supported by research funders. Deposit is easy. Repository staff can help with copyright. Communication Plan Your mission: to get information about WRRO and open access to your departments by fair means or foul! What method, when, who…. RIS@RHUL RHUL Systems Grants HR ID Mgt WWW CMS Validation of bibliographic data Updating researchers’ websites Researchers Querying of research output data Submission of research artefacts Submission of bibliographic data Research Management System Research Managers Importing of bibliographic data HEFCE Querying Depositing research artefacts REF Web of Science PubMed etc Institutional Repository Library staff Reproduced with permission from Tim Wales Leeds – refer to Symplectic York and Sheffield – continue to refer to White Rose Selling point – anything deposited now will appear in the RIS once it’s up and running Boost your visibility, make your work available! Searches IRS – dopamine “Gurney” WorldCat - Translating animal art: Salin’s Style I and Anglo-Saxon cast saucer brooches Google / Scholar Scirus – saucer brooches BASE – saucer brooches