1. Niamh Brennan Trinity College Library Dublin Donal Lyons Trinity College Library Dublin Andrew Watson Trinity College Library Dublin Kevin Kiely Trinity College Library Dublin Garret McMahon Trinity College Library Dublin Enovation Solutions Dublin Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact University of Malawi, Kamuzu College of Nursing, Lilongwe October 29-30, 2009 TARA: Trinity’s Access to Research Archive and Irish- African Partnership project

2. Malawi: Number of Publications (ISI)

3. Malawi: Number of Citations (ISI)

6. From: ‘Open access archiving: the fast track to building research capacity in developing countries’, Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop and Subbiah Arunachalam http://www.scidev.net/en/features/open-access-archiving-the-fast-track-to- building-r.html   Most new knowledge is largely reported from the richer countries, where spending on research and development is highest.   … researchers in eight countries — led by the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan — produce almost 85 percent of the world's most cited publications   163 other countries, mostly developing nations, account for less than 2.5 percent   only ten per cent of the global health research is undertaken in the developing world.

7. Irish Research Output, 1981-2007 Number of papers% papers in the world

8. Investment in Irish Research:   Over the past 10 years expenditure on Higher Education R&D has quadrupled   Now reached OECD & EU-25 average HERD intensity ratio   between 2004 and 2006 the number of Researchers in Higher Education increased by 13%

9. “Justify budget of €2bn, colleges warned” UNIVERSITIES and colleges will have to justify their €2bn budget as part of an unprecedented government investigation into third-level spending. By Ralph Riegel and John Walshe, Irish Independent, Thursday August 14 2008

10. 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.

11. 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)

13. Research Profile on College Staff Directory

14. Personal URL/Research Webpage

15. Live feed on to School webpages

19. Research publications Etheses Epublishing/Grey Literature Images

21. Bibliographic records from ISI: - Integrated with ISI institutional Citation Report for TCD - By agreement with ISI - Specifically requested by researchers

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

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

28. Research Support System with Fulltext Links

29. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

33. Aug 31, 2008 - Sep 30, 2008

37.   Promotion of your research and that of your group The Benefits to the Researcher 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

38.   Promotion of your research and that of your group   Improved dissemination and visibility of your research   Opportunity to easily identify potential collaborators   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.   A means of avoiding repetition in the request-for / provision-of information.   Upload the full text of publications directly into the Irish African Partnership’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   Link with your local research systems and repositories The Benefits to the Researcher

39. 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

40. CERIF

41. Enhanced access Better search functionality Alerts Usage Statistics Inclusion with other research material + Different processes / workflows New environment E-Theses:

42. 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: Approves/disapproves application for stay Graduate Studies Office/Dean: 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 Reject

44. Internal grant administration   Start-up grant   Research capacity grant - Submission form pre-populated from RSS - Automated validation for eligibility: instant feedback - Automated approval system (workflow)

45. Generate Reports

47. School X: 2003-2007

48. Reporting for Evaluation 2

49. Research Presentation/Dissemination

58. 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

59. “ Content is king… …Context is God ” - John Casey (Digitalinsite)

60. www.ssisi.ie Any ‘Community’, Collection or individual item can be linked to… Any ‘Community’, Collection or individual item can be linked to…

65. http://www.irel-open.ie

66. IReL- Open: National Research Portal   To be hosted by Expertise Ireland   Single point of access to national research output   Harvested from university repositories   Includes published research across all disciplines   Author ID   Citation Analysis   Future: Data sets

67. National Research Data Project – –IUA sectoral project: all 7 universities – –3 year project – –Funded by Higher Education Authority [SIF2] Delivering… – –National Citation Report – –University Science Indicators – –Standards & definitions – –Adding value… – –Other data…

69. Web portal  Development research portal  Links Irish and African universities in virtual community  Supports collaborative research with African universities  Communications forum  Electronic consultation platform  Digital repository  Research register

70. IAP Partners All Irish Universities (North and South) Malawi: University of Malawi Tanzania: University of Dar es Salaam Uganda: Makerere University Mozambique:Universidad Eduardo Mondlane

71. Key Thematic Areas   Health   Education   Gender   ICT

72. http://www.irishafricanpartnership.ie

73. Thank you

74. Acknowledgements Celia Gallagher Irish Universities Association, National Research Platform Thomson Reuters Donal Lyons MIS, Trinity College Dublin Andrew Watson MIS, Trinity College Dublin Kevin Kiely MIS, Trinity College Dublin Garret McMahon Institutional Repository Content Manager, Trinity College Dublin Jess Eustace SFI Research Support Librarian Enovation Solutions, Ltd Dublin

75. Open Access Niamh Brennan Trinity College Library Phone:+353 1 896 1646 Email:niamh.brennan@tcd.ie