Aberystwyth University’s Repository

A REPOSITORY A REPOSITORY  a mechanism for managing and storing digital content  part of an institution’s local information provision  part of the developing global Open Access information environment

 Research  Creativity  Teaching  Collaboration

 an item freely accessed by anyone in the world using an internet connection  potential readership of Open Access articles is far greater than that for articles where the full-text is restricted to subscribers  increases the number of readers and significantly increases citations to the article

OA DOES NOT AFFECT PEER REVIEW NO SUGGESTION THAT AUTHORS SHOULD USE REPOSITORIES INSTEAD OF JOURNALS CADAIR IS A SINGLE STAGE AT THE END OF THIS PROCESS IN CERTAIN DISCIPLINES, PRE-PRINT MATERIAL IS ALSO DEPOSITED

OPEN ACCESS… …PUBLISHERS

 MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS  EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS  CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS  PALGRAVE MACMILLAN  ASHGATE PUBLISHING  GOMER PRESS

Anchor Eden Corgi Doubleday Black Swan Bantam

FROM PUBLISHERS… TO CONTENT & CADAIR

 Mandatory electronic submission of successful research theses and Mphil’s along with 2 hard copies  …and PG taught MA dissertations with distinctions  …and MA’s on Welsh, Celtic Studies or Welsh History  Optional dissemination through CADAIR  Minimum deposit requirement: title/abstract/intro/bibliography pages

 BATH  BIRMINGHAM  BRADFORD  BRISTOL  BRUNEL  BUCKS NEW UNI  CARDIFF  CHESTER  EDINBURGH  EXETER  GLASGOW  IMPERIAL  LANCASTER  LEEDS  LEICESTER  LIVERPOOL  MANCHESTER MET  MIDDLESEX  NAPIER UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH  NEWCASTLE  NORTHAMPTON  NOTTINGHAM  OXFORD  ROEHAMPTON  ROBERT GORDON, ABERDEEN  SHEFFIELD  SOUTHAMPTON  STRILING  ST ANDREWS  SUSSEX  UCL  WARWICK  WOLVERHAMPTON  WORCESTER

Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly- funded research must be made available Funded work to be accessible for public use, interrogation and scrutiny AHRC Ensure deposit of a copy of any resultant articles published in journals or conference proceedings in appropriate repository Personally deposit the bibliographical metadata ESRC The outputs from current research must be preserved and remain accessible Research community to make readily available the outputs from the research it funds BBSRC

BENEFITS OF SUBMITTING TO CADAIR COLLATE MATERIAL FOR FUTURE REF DISCUSSION & COLLABORATION PRESERVATION VISIBILITY AND IMPACT

 An author’s work will never be deposited without prior permission  An author’s work will never be deposited without a publisher’s conditions or requirements being respected

 CADAIR can provide information and data management - a significant aid in applying for research grants and submitting to the REF.  CADAIR can reduce the administrative burden on departments  CADAIR can take into account any specific departmental requirements  CADAIR will help and guide you through the depositing process

THANK YOU Dr Nicky Cashman 2009