1. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Enhance the impact of your research with UCL Eprints Suzanne Tonkin Bartlett Library – Site Librarian UCL Eprints Project Officer e-mail: lib-eprints@ucl.ac.uk

2. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES What is UCL Eprints? Eprints are: electronic versions of research papers full-text journal articles; conference papers; book chapters etc UCL Eprints = Open Access repository of UCL research papers Open Access repositories – free, online, utilizing standards complement existing publishing processes UCL Eprints homepage: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/

3. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES What is UCL Eprints for? Disseminate research more widely: removes access barriers allows easy dissemination by authors Make research more visible: search/browse within UCL Eprints indexed by search engines repositories are cross-searchable as one virtual repository structured environment allowing targeted searches Provide a showcase: choose your view: author; dept/research group; faculty views updated dynamically embed view link in websites Provide access legally Provide access quickly

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12. Access and Citations OA increases number of potential users Growing evidence that OA articles - discernible difference* in terms of frequency of citation UCL Eprints statistics @ April 06 Top paper downloads -126 Average number of downloads per day – 318 Number of full text articles @ 24 May 2006 – 922 * Harnad, S. & Brody, T. Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals, Dlib Magazine, 10(6) 2004: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html

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14. Depositing papers within UCL Eprints Send paper as an attachment to lib-eprints@ucl.ac.uk When accepted for publication No cut-off date Peer-reviewed manuscript where possible i.e. the author version Any format

15. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Eprints staff then … Check copyright permissions Catalogue and load full text where possible In Press Add bibliographic record where a full text load is not possible Keep full text on file Negotiate with publishers Add full citation details on publication Published Link to the publishers version Peer-reviewed papers marked as such

16. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Useful websites UCL Eprints: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/ UCL Eprints deposit guide: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/Deposit.html General information on Open Access, including a directory of existing archives and a self-archiving FAQs: http://www.eprints.org/ OAIster cross-repository search engine: http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html RCUK proposed position statement on access to research outputs: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/index.asp Wellcome Trust position statement in support of open and unrestricted access to published research: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002766.html