e-Publishing
School of Modern Languages AwayDay May 2005
Bill HubbardSHERPA Project Manager
University of Nottingham
e-Publishing
Material– e-journals– e-books– e-articles– e-papers– e-resources
Methods– commercial access-controlled publishing– commercial open access publishing – open access repositories– online material for colleagues & students
Institutional repositories
“Digital collections that preserve and provide access to the intellectual output of an institution.”
May contain a variety of digital objects – eprints – etheses – book chapters– conference papers
Open access encourages wider use of information assets
Repositories in context
Supplementary to traditional publication Does not affect current research publication processes Gives easy access Gives rapid access Gives long-term access Increases readership and use of material value added services
– hit counts on papers– personalised publications lists– citation analyses
Publication & Deposition
Author writes paper
Submits to journal
Paper refereed
Revised by author
Author submits final version
Published in journal
Deposits in e-print repository
Possible concerns
Subject base more natural ? – institutional infrastructure, view by subject
Quality control ?– peer-review clearly labelled
Plagiarism– old problem - and easier to detect
Papers already on personal or departmental website– unstructured for access, search, preservation, RAE
Threat to journals?– evidence shows co-existence possible - but in the future . . . ?
Repositories at Nottingham
Nottingham ePrints Nottingham Modern Languages Publications Archive Nottingham eTheses
Nottingham ePrints Home Page
Department Listing
Critical Theory Listing
Tormey Metadata
Tormey pdf
Department page
Departmental publications page
Google - Millington
114th Result - Millington
MLPA Front page
Attwood Google
MLPA Usage - so far
Since December 2003, 17,706 requests Average requests per day: 33
MLPA Usage - April 2005
Successful requests: 1,733
Average requests per day: 57
e-Publishing & e-Dissemination
Commercial publishing models have adopted online distribution - and are changing . . .
Repository use is growing Wide support for open access Benefits for research - and researchers RCUK position statement Opportunities for different dissemination routes in
future
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