Opening Access to Southampton Research

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Institutional Repositories for Research Visibility:

Time to Deposit

Jessie Heyand

Pauline Simpson

ESM Faculty Forum 26 Feb 2004

• Set up with HEFCE/JISC funding• Other UK Universities : Oxford, Cambridge,

Glasgow, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Bristol, London Univs : Imperial, UCL, SOAS, Kings College etc

• JISC FAIR Programme – Focus on Access to Institutional Resources – ways in which university research output can be made freely available - more accessible, more rapidly

• Open Access movement

Southampton University Institutional Repository

http:/eprints.soton.ac.uk

 

“We never stop writing the future” – but who is able to read it?  

The current system of research publishing has a number of major problems: universities are locked into paying escalating journal subscription prices, while at the same time subsidising the publishing process. Universities/academics are allowing copyright of research material to be given away to commercial publishers free of charge; academics are being prevented from achieving wide dissemination of their papers by publishers who wish to restrict circulation to subscribers only; academics have problems accessing papers in their field because of publishers’ restrictions on access. 

• INPUT:– Enter record for publication,

image, keynote speech etc– Where possible attach a full text or

image file

Research Information System

• Output - One record for many purposes:– Live link to publications from school or

personal web pages– CVs– Funding Proposals– University Research Report– RAE support– Export to bib management software –

EndNote, Bibtex – reformat refs

Research Information System