Open Access Niamh M. Brennan Trinity College Library Dublin RSP Summer School 2008 June 19th 2008 Thornton Manor, The Wirral, Cheshire Pushing doors and opening windows

June 2008 “Great communicators have an appreciation for positioning. They understand the people they're trying to reach and what they can and can't hear. They send their message in through an open door rather than trying to push it through a wall.” – John Kotter

June 2008

Research publications Etheses Epublishing/Grey Literature Images

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June 2008 TCD Research Support System Brief/Context “A coherent information policy for College to address the needs of management, the Library, e-learning, electronic publications and records management will be developed with a view to having an integrated view of information systems across the whole of College.

June 2008 A research database will be part of an integrated management system to help monitor our progress in research and scholarship and to help manage their support.” -TCD Strategic Plan, Chapter 5: Strategy to Realise our Vision of Trinity, Action 18, p26

June 2008

Requirements: Heads of Department 1. Monitor and enhance the department’s research profile; 2. Identify the department’s research strengths and weaknesses; 3. Identify what research contracts are in progress at present; 4. Identify the stages of other departmental research projects (e.g. proposal, negotiation, awaiting funding); 5. Identify what factors may enhance a project’s chances of receiving funding; 6. Identify what expertise exists within the department that is not currently receiving funding;

June 2008 Requirements: Heads of Department 7. Identify what resources appear to enhance the research activity of the department; 8. Possibly validate input by the individual academics. Process to allow heads of department view/approve data newly input by members of their departments; 9. Assist promotion boards by providing a standard means of accessing progress in research; 10. Access the roles of collaborators in projects; 11. Publicise services the department offers e.g. business consultancy … 12. May require standardised data for departmental quality reviews; 13. Identify opportunities for possible cross-departmental collaboration.

June 2008 CURRENT RESEARCH INFORMATION SYSTEM - CV-driven - Fully integrated with complementary systems - initial population from Human Resources records - updated & enhanced ‘live’ by researcher, - mediated input on-demand (Library-based service)

June 2008

Research Profile on College Staff Directory

June 2008 Personal URL/Research Webpage

June 2008 Live feed on to School webpages

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June 2008 Wall or Door?

June 2008 Handling Bibliographic Data: ISI

June 2008

APIs WoS SCOPUS PubMed

June 2008 PubMed Data

June 2008 Handling Bibliographic Data: EndNote

June 2008 Expertise Ireland Peoplefinder / Web / College Systems WEB E-publishing, Digitisation Projects, etc Research Support System Repository

June 2008 TCD Institutional Repository - in an Integrated Environment Institutional Repository Human Resources Physical Resources Financials Library Student Administration Research Support System Bibliographic metadata (inc. ISI) Research Expertise Project tracking Web server Web Services FTP server DMZ External Bodies The web / Search engines etc. OAI harvesters External Bodies The web / Search engines etc. OAI harvesters External Bodies Thesis Print-Shop External Bodies Thesis Print-Shop External Bodies expertiseireland.com Portal Reviewers External Bodies expertiseireland.com Portal Reviewers

June Fully integrated with Research Support System - Added value to records in both systems

June 2008

Repository with Added Value Link to Researcher’s Profile Link to live ISI Citation Record

June 2008 Research Support System with Fulltext Links

June 2008 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

June 2008

Enhanced access Better search functionality Alerts Usage Statistics Inclusion with other research material + Different processes / workflows New environment Inclusion in Repository means…

June 2008 Theses Centre: Prints thesis Contacts student Theses Centre: Prints thesis Contacts student Student: Adds metadata Uploads file/s Applies restriction (if any) Agrees to Licence Student: Adds metadata Uploads file/s Applies restriction (if any) Agrees to Licence Supervisor: Checks - Correct file Restriction/Stay Keywords Citations/Sponsors Supervisor: Checks - Correct file Restriction/Stay Keywords Citations/Sponsors Graduate Studies Office/Dean: 1. Approves/disapproves application for stay Graduate Studies Office/Dean: 1. Approves/disapproves application for stay Student: Adds note & contact details Issues command to print the thesis Student: Adds note & contact details Issues command to print the thesis Approve Library: Checks metadata Assigns LCSH Commits to archive [Record exported to GEAC] Library: Checks metadata Assigns LCSH Commits to archive [Record exported to GEAC] Reject Approve

June 2008 TCD Metadata: RSS

June 2008

June 2008 Higher Education Authority -funded under Strategic Innovation Fund National Development Plan Research as critical to economic development National research profile Managed by the Irish Universities Association IReL-Open Initiative

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June 2008 TCD: First SHERPA non-UK Affiliate Partner /

June 2008

21 European Partners:

June doors and a window

June 2008

Robert Kiley, Head of E-Strategy, Wellcome Trust Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area Access, Dissemination and Preservation in the Digital Age Conference, Brussels February society/document_library/pdf_06/kiley _en.pdf

June 2008

IRCSET PROPOSED POLICY All researchers must lodge their publications resulting in whole or in part from IRCSET-funded research in an open access repository as soon as possible after publication, to be made openly accessible within 6 months at the latest. The repository may be a local institutional repository and/or a subject repository; Authors should deposit post-prints (or publisher’s version if permitted) plus metadata of articles accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings; Deposit should be made upon acceptance by the journal/conference. Repositories should release the metadata immediately, with access restrictions to full text article to be applied as required. Open access should be available as soon as practicable after the author-requested embargo, or six month, whichever comes first; Suitable repositories should make provision for long-term preservation of, and free public access to, published research findings....

June 2008

SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit "SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit“, Julie Allinson, Sebastien François and Stuart Lewis, Ariadne Issue

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Output, Number of papers% papers in the world

June 2008 Impact (cites per paper) Impact overall Impact relative to world average: Baseline=1.0 World Baseline

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Average cumulative citations to cumulative papers

June 2008 “The best way forward… is a joint appeal to self-interest and social conscience… “ – Michael Edwards, Future Positive

June 2008 Digital Libraries l Discovery/ Harvesting/ Hosting Service Expertise Databases Digital Learning Repositories Institutional repositories Bibliometric & Strategic Research Analysis CRISses Citations Report (ISI) Institutional Research Data Research Portal Subscribed Electronic Resources GRID Digital Preservation Centres Electronic Theses & Dissertations Collaborative Virtual Research Environments Subject & Special Interest Repositories

June 2008 Promotion of your research and that of your group Facility to generate and download a personal Curriculum Vitae.. A personal URL to link to from your business card or website. A means of creating and maintaining up-to-date publications lists. A means of generating reports for internal and external use. Automatic inclusion in the annual TCD Calendar’s list of publications. A means of avoiding repetition in the request-for / provision-of information. An opportunity for your research profile to be exported to the Expertise Ireland portal. Details from your RSS profile can be automatically used for your internal grant applications. ‘Live feed’ of information from the RSS onto School web pages Upload the full text of publications (subject to copyright) directly into TCD’s open access digital repository and maximise its audience and impact on the world wide web. Comply with funders’ mandates for dissemination of research outputs The Benefits to the Researcher

June 2008

What’s your position?

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