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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES

Enhance the impact of your research with UCL Eprints

Suzanne Tonkin

Bartlett Library – Site LibrarianUCL Eprints Project Officer

e-mail: [email protected]


What is UCL Eprints?

Eprints are: electronic versions of research papers full-text journal articles; conference papers; book chapters etc

UCL Eprints = Open Access repository of UCL research papers Open Access repositories – free, online, utilizing standards complement existing publishing processes

UCL Eprints homepage: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/


What is UCL Eprints for?

Disseminate research more widely: removes access barriersallows easy dissemination by authors

Make research more visible: search/browse within UCL Eprints indexed by search engines repositories are cross-searchable as one virtual repository structured environment allowing targeted searches

Provide a showcase: choose your view: author; dept/research group; facultyviews updated dynamicallyembed view link in websites

Provide access legally Provide access quickly


Access and Citations

OA increases number of potential users Growing evidence that OA articles - ‘discernible difference’* in terms of

frequency of citation

UCL Eprints statistics @ April 06 Top paper downloads -126 Average number of downloads per day – 318

Number of full text articles @ 24 May 2006 – 922

* Harnad, S. & Brody, T. Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals, Dlib Magazine, 10(6) 2004: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html


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Depositing papers within UCL Eprints

Send paper as an attachment to [email protected] When accepted for publication No “cut-off” date Peer-reviewed manuscript where possible i.e. the “author

version” Any format


Eprints staff then …

Check copyright permissions Catalogue and load full text where possible

“In Press” Add bibliographic record where a full text load is not

possible Keep full text on file Negotiate with publishers

Add full citation details on publication “Published” Link to the publisher’s version Peer-reviewed papers marked as such


Useful websites

UCL Eprints: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/

UCL Eprints deposit guide: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/Deposit.html

General information on Open Access, including a directory of existing archives and a “self-archiving” FAQs: http://www.eprints.org/

OAIster cross-repository search engine: http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/

The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

RCUK proposed position statement on access to research outputs: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/index.asp

Wellcome Trust position statement in support of open and unrestricted access to published research: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002766.html