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Research: Maximising visibility
using ORA
Sally Rumsey
The Bodleian Libraries
Maximise
visibility
Now extends
across many
other faculties
“Each Faculty member grants to the President and
Fellows of Harvard College permission to make available
his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright
in those articles…The policy will apply to all scholarly
articles written while the person is a member of the
Faculty ... The Dean … will waive application of the policy
for a particular article upon written request by a Faculty
member … each Faculty member will provide an
electronic copy of the final version of the article …. The
Provost’s Office may make the article available to the
public in an open-access repository...
Now MIT
& UCL
http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/hfaspolicy
as well
ORA is designed to hold any type of item produced as a result
of academic research
• Conference items: Papers; Posters; Presentations
• Articles: Including supplementary material and extended
versions; No page limit
• Books and book sections and chapters; Out of print
• Working and discussion papers
• Reports
• Questionnaires (uncompleted)
• Pre-prints
• Diagrams
• Research theses
• [Datasets [DOIs]; Audio files; Images]
• Not provided by department websites,
personal websites or necessarily by
publishers
• Source file whatever application
• ‘Dark archive’
• Bodleian Libraries’ commitment
Retaining a copy at
Oxford
Additional
text (no
page
charges)
Illustrations
Graphs
[Data]
Diagrams
Supplementary materials
Keeping up with other
researchers and universities
Persistent links
RSS feeds
Harvesting metadata
Author choice of version
+ versions of other item types; record only
Relationship with subject and
other open access archives
Other
institutions’
archives
ORA for theses
Exploratory Hands-on
Items in ORA
• http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
• Mandela [title & abstract –
2 hits] – PDF & Word
• author: Boehmer
• faculty:English
• supervisor:houlsby
Background
• Research Councils UK access
to research outputs
www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/P
ages/outputs.aspx
• Budapest Open Access
initiative
www.soros.org/openaccess
• Harvard Policy
http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/
hfaspolicy
Part 2
Rights and permissions
Most journal publishers
permit authors to
deposit their author
final peer-reviewed
version of an article in
ORA…
…but ORA is not just
about journal articles
Books
and book
sections
http://www.flickr.co
m/photos/phonono/
520421532/
Conference
papers and
other
conference
items
Reports, working
and discussion
papers
Grey
literature
[unpublished
works]
http://www.flickr.com
/photos/western4uk/
13779985/
Help with journal publishers’ policies
www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Funders’ Policies
You might have to find out about
deposit policies if your research is
externally funded
www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
Comparing ‘green’ to ‘gold’
Gold
Green
• Fully OA or Open option • Make green via ORA or
subject repository
• Cost
• Publish in journal of
• Include costs in some
choice
funding applications
• No cost
• Impact factor
• Immediate
dissemination
Websites of interest
• DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
• SPARC: Advocating change in scholarly communications
for the benefit of researchers and society
SPARC: http://www.sparceurope.org/
• Oxford Open (OUP’s stable of open access journals or
journals with an open option)
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/
• PLoS (Public Library of Science) a rapidly expanding
science publisher using a fully open access model
http://www.plos.org/
Exploratory Hands-on
Check out rights
• Take a look the deposit
policies of some of the
journals you most
frequently use
• Use either:
• www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
• Or search the journal
website for author
permission
• Check funding body policy
(if appropriate)
www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
Questions
• Does the journal allow you
to deposit a version of your
work in ORA?
• Are there any restrictions or
conditions?
• Are there any terms or
phrases that are confusing?
• Can make use of your work
as you would wish?
Part 3:
How to deposit your
research in ORA
Author selfarchiving
[Symplectic
+ batch upload]
Deposit by your
representative
Mediated
deposit (ORA)
Symplectic – ORA connector
Symplectic
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/p
ras/research/symplectic/
Bulk uploads
Other university
repositories
Faculty sources
Online form
www.flickr.com/photos/desiitaly/2192939015/
New items
Legacy items
Where to find help
• ORA Help & Info website
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ora
• ORA email
[email protected]
• ORA Helpdesk 83860
• Your subject librarian
• ORA Archive Assistant: Catherine Goudie
[email protected]
• ORA Manager: Sally Rumsey
[email protected]
Hands-on deposit
Easy email
• If you can access your
webmail:
Send an email to
[email protected]
• Ask that an item be
deposited into ORA.
• Attach a copy of the file(s) –
author final peer-reviewed
copy if a journal article (PDF
will be used by ORA staff if
permitted)
Online deposit
• Go to
http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
• Click on ‘Contribute’
• Grant of licence
• Add data to mandatory
boxes
• Add more data if you wish
• Attach the file
• Submit the files (it will be
checked)
Questions and
surgery