Arrow@DIT

Supporting Research

Institutional Repository Digital archive Institutional Repository

Arrow@DITA digital collection of research

material produced in DIT and made available to the world. This collection is managed by the library and will be preserved for the long term.

A safe place to house the good stuff!

Promotion

Showcase on web Searchable Harvested by Google/Google Scholar Harvested by IR aggregators Digital information can be merged

with other systems internal/external

DIT Research

DIT Citation Rates

What goes in Theses Published articles Conference papers Book Chapters Datasets Pre-publication articles Working Papers Not definitive list!

Pre Prints/Post Prints Pre prints (version pre-refeering) Post prints (post-refeering)

Authors final version

Publisher’s version Revision Updated version

The one

to

keep!!!!!

Oaister (USA): 18158488 records from 1026 contributors

Roar (UK) 1159 Institutional Repositories

Digital Commons Live sites

Google analytics Top content

PagesPageviews

% Page views

Searches 1,282 19.17%

Communities 303 4.53%

Authors 257 3.84%

Theses 214 3.20%

DIT Journals 143 2.14%

Mandates Funders require research to be

deposited in an open access repository Wellcome Trust NHS/UK Research Boards IRCSET SFI/Health Research Board

HEA All of Australia! Major Universities

Copyright Not copyright but Publisher’s Policies Many will allow authors final version May not allow their version (Citation will be to publishers pdf but

accessed via Arrow@dit.ie) Direct negotiation At end of day, if they say no, will not

go in

Tools

Sherpa/Romeo lists of Publisher policies http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.phpGreen…..pre-print and post print (0ver 87%

green)Blue…….post printYellow….pre printWhite…..cannot archive

Copyright Toolboxhttp://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox

Guard copyright

Valuable property right Credit squeeze less access to

journals Publisher’s job to make money not

preserve Grant a licence to publish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=7giW7efQggo

Centralised Mediated Service

Author inputs Author key words vital! Item in holding area Library checks publisher’s policy Applies Metadata Posts to the system Author notified