1. Southampton University Research Repository http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/ POETS discussion on Open Access Pauline Simpson and Jessie Hey 23 September 2004

2. Institutional Repository route 2 complementary routes to Open Access Open Access journals Open Access repositories House of Commons Committee report July 2004 also supports Institutional Repositories Southampton University Repository already set up has capacity for adding full text (e-Prints) if available Dual role as research information system: Proactive recording Proactive access

3. All research output with full text if available

4. Deposit your new publications Records for Southampton Oceanography Centre for 2000 onwards have been imported Record your new publications in http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/ also linked from Library web pages Add full text if you can Linked to copyright information: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php Help: eprints@soton.ac.uk

5. A service for all university research and schools Research repository for the University RAE management tool (agreed at University Research Policy Committee) –Developed by ECS for pilot RAE Becoming definitive publications record Self recording or assisted Secure storage for full text research output One record for many uses Globally searchable Part of UK initiative (and global) - other UK research universities also building repositories

6. Example of live link from Southampton Research Repository to researcher web page

7. Searched nationally and globally by Google and specific search engines OAIster searches 3,488,842 records from 347 institutions (updated 2 September 2004)

8. e-Prints Soton database evolution