Roar Presentation To School Of Psychology

What is it? Why should I use it? How do I use it?

Rachel Graham (Research Services Librarian)email : [email protected] tel : 0208 223 6466

What is roar?

roar is UEL’s institutional repository –

• a place to store and preserve intellectual assets• a catalogue of research outputs• a locus for individuals to manage, disseminate and share

scholarly work

• Most of our rival institutions

• Expected to exist by research councils

• Institutions without active repositories will stand out - for the wrong reasons…

Who else has an institutional repository?

What’s happening internationally?

I will soon form a US Public Access Policy (10/12/2009* ) advise

me please…

* http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/12/10/policy-forum-on-public-access-to-federally-funded-research-implementation/

…Harvard advises manuscript deposit in

an open access repository!

Why should I use roar? 1) Visibility: articles made freely available are more likely to be

cited • the more online full text = more

chance of discovery and citation

• Search engines favour OAI-repository material

• a showcase for School of Psychology research

The Google effect: what difference can repositories make to your research visibility?

• Southampton University – ranked 25th in the World, 3rd in the UK

UEL Psychology staff are already using roar to increase the visibility of their work….

• roar result comes up first (especially for smaller publishers)

• roar result appears above personal webpages

…..And that of their colleagues!

• roar can provide sublinks to your

other deposited work – showcasing the whole department

• roar results appear ahead of some larger publishers *official* pages

• roar results appear ahead of personal webpages

…worldwide!!

roar and the REF

Implications for the School of Psychology:

“Citation data relating to submitted outputs will be provided to panels to inform expert review in UOAs covering the medical, health, biological and physical sciences, psychology, engineering and computer science.”

HEFCE (2009) ‘Research Excellence Framework: Second consultation on the assessment and funding of research’ September 2009/38 pp 11 available online at: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2009/09_38/

Why should I use roar? 2) Accessibility: research archives mean research sharing is

faster

• No subscription barriers for users

• Depositing work in roar can help you comply with funding requirements

• It’s a free route to Open Access

Why should I use roar? 3) Preservation: archiving of material ensures longevity of

research

• roar provides a permanent URL

• A managed environment

• 10 years access guaranteed

What can I deposit?

• We will deposit the most authoritative version permitted by your publisher (eg: IEEE permit deposit of final PDF)

• What are post-prints and pre-prints? (please see: http://www.uel.ac.uk/roar/whattodeposit.htm)

• Coversheets and metadata indicate the item type and provide a link through the final published version

• Our collection policy is flexible

What about copyright?

• You retain all intellectual property rights over your work

• We always check copyright permissions on your behalf

• 64% of publishers and 90% of journals allow post-print archiving (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ )

Berners-Lee, T., De Roure, D., Harnad, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2005) Journal publishing and

author self-archiving: Peaceful Co-Existence and Fruitful Collaboration. (Unpublished) available online at: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11160/

“All objective evidence from the past decade and a half of self-

archiving shows that self-archiving can and does co-exist peacefully with journals while

greatly enhancing both author/article and journal

impact, to the benefit of both”

How do I use roar?

OR2) Archive yourself

1) Email your post-prints to us at [email protected]

roar is still developing – improvements coming soon!

• Automatic link to web pages

• Creation of a personal profile

• Improved embargo feature

• Request a copy feature

• In depth statistics for each item

Coming soon: statistics upgrade

Questions, Comments, Suggestions?

UEL’s Institutional Repository (roar@UEL): http://roar.uel.ac.uk

References

• Berners-Lee, T., De Roure, D., Harnad, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2005) ‘Journal publishing and author self-archiving: Peaceful Co-Existence and Fruitful Collaboration’ available online at: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11160/

• DiEuliis, D; Sturm, R. (2009) Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President: Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementation, available online at: http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/12/10/policy-forum-on-public-access-to-federally-funded-research-implementation/

• Harnad, Steven. (2006) Open Access Archivangelism (Friday, April 14. 2006) (blog) available online at: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/79-guid.html

• HEFCE (2009) ‘Research Excellence Framework: Second consultation on the assessment and funding of research’ September 2009/38 available online at: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2009/09_38/

• RCUK (2009) ‘Open Access to research outputs: Final report to RCUK’ available online at: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/default.htm

• Wray, Richard. (2005) ‘Publish university science for free, urges web creator’ The Guardian, Tuesday 30 August 2005, available online at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/aug/30/highereducation.elearning