What do we do next? Ideas for adding value to your repositorySUETr Event, Lincoln, 10/2/08

Lucy Keating,e-repositories project officer,Robinson Library, Newcastle Universitylucy.keating@ncl.ac.uk

and Stephanie Taylor, SUETr

Newcastle e-prints service

Open access database of research produced by Newcastle University staff Existed since 2005, in earnest

since 2007 Mainly peer-reviewed

published material 6,000 items, of which 1,500

are full text All records from RAE 2008

deposited Several hundred staff participating, thousands of

downloads per month

eprints.ncl.ac.uk

Key facts

In-house developed software, based on e-prints

Repository officer (me!) responsible for this and e-theses project

Main roles: advocacy and service development

44% response rate from staff to requests for full text

Future integration Launch of new research information service,

MyImpact later this year Single point of access for

all research-related information

Much greater range of reports and analysis

E-prints will link in with it Records downloaded from

WoS and Scopus, generating automated full text request to author

Citation data available to enable analysis and preparation for REF

Current situation!

How it will work…..

Adding value to your repository

Beyond open access…. We know about OA,

preservation, description… but what else can our repositories do?

“A repository should be able to provide lots of benefits to its users. In particular, it should make things more valuable when they are deposits than when they are just files on a laptop.”

[Les Carr, repositoryman.blogspot.com]

CC 2.0 Picture credit: theogeo.blogspot.com

Adding value for depositors Do deposits go into your repository to die….

….or to be reborn? Enable depositors to supply data once (preferably

with zero effort), and then repurpose it Output - create customised bibliographies, CVs, web

sites, documents Personalisation –

incorporating into other sites - Pageflakes, iGoogle, Facebook, widgets…

There is no mandate to deposit in youtube or Flickr!

Enabling interaction

Interaction and linking- allowing others to contact, form groups, give feedback (tagging and rating, not just formal citations)

Keep up to date with RSS feeds (customised for individuals, research groups, format…)

“Successful repositories (Flickr, YouTube, slideshare etc) promote the social activity that takes place around the content as well as the content management activity.”

[Andy Powell, Eduserv Foundation]

CC 2.0 pic credit: timcaynes.com

What can we do with content?

Displaying content in different ways Creating slideshows Visualising content (image

wall, previews, tag cloud, timeline)

Broadening content type – e.g. non-text materials, data, learning objects

www.slideshare.net/lescarr

Adding value for the institution Supporting the institution’s mission Marketing, link in with press

releases, recruitment… Expertise finder Research management, REF

procedures, career development Data analysis – e.g. % of total research output in

repository, % of staff depositing, breakdown by School, research group?…

Can your repository help generate income? Can it save money?

Can your repository save people time? Who? Are you telling stakeholders about this?

Don’t become an afterthought! Does your repository just make

an appearance ‘at the end’ of the research process?

How can it become part of the research workflow…from first idea to final publication?

Blurring of distinction between journal and repository?

Advising and assisting with setting up OA journals Enabling funder policy compliance Part of everyday academic practice - ‘a mandate without a

mandate’ e.g. Northampton University generates its annual research

report entirely from NECTAR repository content – if you’re not in the repository, you won’t be in the report

Pic credit: mscaprikell

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Over to you….