Open Access
Pushing doors and opening windows
Niamh M. Brennan Trinity College Library Dublin
RSP Summer School 2008
June 19th 2008 Thornton Manor, The Wirral, Cheshire
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“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
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Research publications Etheses Epublishing/Grey Literature Images
www.ssisi.ie
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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.
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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
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Requirements: Heads of Department
1. Monitor and enhance the department‟s research
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profile; Identify the department‟s research strengths and weaknesses; Identify what research contracts are in progress at present; Identify the stages of other departmental research projects (e.g. proposal, negotiation, awaiting funding); Identify what factors may enhance a project‟s chances of receiving funding; Identify what expertise exists within the department that is not currently receiving funding;
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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.
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)
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Research Profile on College Staff Directory
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Personal URL/Research Webpage
Live feed on to School webpages
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www.expertiseireland.com
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Wall or Door?
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Handling Bibliographic Data: ISI
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APIs
• WoS • SCOPUS • PubMed
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PubMed Data
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Handling Bibliographic Data: EndNote
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Peoplefinder / Web / College Systems
E-publishing, Digitisation Projects, etc
Research Support System
Repository
Expertise Ireland
WEB
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TCD Institutional Repository - in an Integrated Environment
Library Research Support System • Bibliographic metadata (inc. ISI) • Research Expertise • Project tracking
Institutional Repository
Web Services
Human Resources
FTP server
Physical Resources
DMZ
DMZ
Web server Financials
External Bodies
• The web /
External Bodies
• Thesis Print-Shop
External Bodies
• expertiseireland.com
•Search engines etc. • OAI harvesters
• Portal Reviewers
Student Administration
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- Fully integrated with Research Support System - Added value to records in both systems
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Repository with Added Value
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Link to Researcher’s Profile
Link to live ISI Citation Record
Research Support System with Fulltext Links
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IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
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Inclusion in Repository means… • Enhanced access • Better search functionality • Alerts • Usage Statistics • Inclusion with other research material + Different processes / workflows New environment
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Student: Adds metadata Uploads file/s Applies restriction (if any) Agrees to Licence
Reject
Supervisor: Checks Correct file Restriction/Stay Keywords Citations/Sponsors Library: Checks metadata Assigns LCSH Commits to archive
Approve
Reject
Graduate Studies Office/Dean: 1. Approves/disapproves application for stay
[Record exported to GEAC]
Approve Approve Student: Adds note & contact details Issues command to print the thesis
Theses Centre: Prints thesis Contacts student
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TCD Metadata: RSS
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http://www.irel-open.ie
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IReL-Open Initiative
• 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
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http://www.ndlr.ie
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TCD: First SHERPA non-UK Affiliate Partner http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/index.html /
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21 European Partners: http://www.dart-europe.eu/
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2 doors and a window
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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 15-16 February 2007 http://ec.europa.eu/research/sciencesociety/document_library/pdf_06/kiley-022007_en.pdf
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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....
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SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit
"SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit“, Julie Allinson, Sebastien François and Stuart Lewis, Ariadne Issue 54 2008 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue54/allinson-et-al/
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Number of papers
Output, 1981-2007
% papers in the world
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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 1981-2007
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“The best way forward… is a joint appeal to self-interest and social conscience… “
– Michael Edwards, Future Positive
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Subject & Special Interest Repositories
GRID
Digital Preservation Centres
l Discovery/ Harvesting/ Hosting Service
Institutional repositories
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Digital Libraries
Research Portal Digital Learning Repositories
CRISses
Collaborative Virtual Research Environments Expertise Databases Citations Report (ISI)
Subscribed Electronic Resources
Institutional Research Data
Bibliometric & Strategic Research Analysis
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The Benefits to the Researcher
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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
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What‟s your position?
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Open Access Niamh M. Brennan
Trinity College Library
Phone: Email:
+353 1 896 1646 niamh.brennan@tcd.ie