Using the University's repository

Bill HubbardSHERPA Manager

Increasing Nottingham’s Research Impact Through Open Access

11th October 2007

Nottingham ePrints

• first institutional repository in the country• recently been upgraded• open to any staff member• takes in material from any discipline• part of the linked global network of nearly

1000 repositories• http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk

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Using Nottingham ePrints

• deposit is supplementary to publication• no charge for use• quick to deposit• assistance is available from SHERPA team• satisfies most funders’ OA mandates• gives OA benefits of increased visibility

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Depositing material

• individuals can register and deposit their own material themselves

• departments or schools can set up local assistance

• SHERPA team is available to facilitate the process or setting up a local service

Beyond access

• provides persistent URLs for material• can feed departmental webpages• persistent record of departmental research• provide statistics of most popular

downloads• possible eventual use in RAE-like analysis

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Faculty of Medicine and Health Science

School of Biomedical Science

The Role of Cannabinoids . . .

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Summary

• Nottingham ePrints is available for all staff to use

• The SHERPA team is happy to give advice on any issues and assistance in using the repository

• bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk

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