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Leabharlann UCD
An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile
Átha Cliath,
Belfield, Baile Átha Cliath 4,
Eire
UCD Library
University College Dublin,
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Research Impact and the
Institutional Repository:
Research_Online@UCD
Joseph Greene
Institutional Repository, James Joyce Library
17 April 2012
Who reads the papers that you publish?
Open Access (OA)
• Placing research publications online, free of
charge, without restrictions to access
– No subscription
– No login
– No pay-wall
Incentives for making publications OA
• To increase research exposure and citation rate
(Open Access citation advantage)
• To meet major funding organisations’
requirements
– SFI, IRCSET, HEA, EU Research Council and FP7
• To publish and archive grey literature (technical
reports, policy briefs, etc)
• To organise and maintain permanent and free access
to your corpus of scholarly/research publications
Increased visibility
• Google Scholar and other major search engines
• Rian.ie, the national Open Access Portal. Items
made OA through the UCD Library are
automatically included
The Open Access citation advantage
Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date. Technical Report , School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton
Increase in citations with Open Access
Agricultural sciences 200% to 600%
Biology -5% to 36%
Communications Studies (IT) 200%
Computer Science 157%
Electrical engineering 51%
Mathematics 35% to 91%
Medicine 300% to 450%
Philosophy 45%
Physics/astronomy 170% to 580%
Political Science 86%
Ways to make publications OA – author
pays or ‘sponsors access’
• OA Journals
– EG Public Library of Science (PLoS One), BioMed Central
– See the directory of OA Journals for more: doaj.org
• Hybrid publishers
– Elsevier: Open Access option
– Springer: Open Choice
• Rough average fee per article: €1500*
*<http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.html> and http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/UniversityOpenAccessPublicationFund.pdf>. Accessed 2012-04-04.
Ways to make publications OA – author
uploads a draft to a repository for FREE
• Institutional repository
– UCD: Research_Online@UCD
• http://irserver.ucd.ie
• Subject repository
– EG PubMed Central,
ArXiv.org
How to use UCD’s Institutional
Repository to make papers OA
• Register your email and set a password
– http://irserver.ucd.ie/dspace/mydspace
– We then contact you and provide further details
• Upload the your final, peer-reviewed draft
– Input citation information
– Upload PDF (preferred)
– Takes 5-10 minutes per item (have seen it done in 3!)
• The Library will check that the correct version has
been uploaded – nothing to fear re. copyright
• You will receive an email with the permanent link
once the paper is online, and monthly download
reports
Types of scholarly publications UCD’s
Institutional Repository accepts:
• Journal Articles
• Conference Publications
• Technical Reports
• Patents
• Book Chapters
• Government Publications written by UCD authors
• Reviews
• Scholarly contribution to newspaper/magazine
• Working papers
NB: for published items (e.g. journal articles and conference papers), we can only accept the author’s final, peer-reviewed draft
Download statistics
Permanent link to this item
Link to PDF
Standardised author names
Subject headings, keywords and peer-review status
Links to publisher’s versions (e.g. ISBN, DOI, URLs)
Downloads, UCD Institutional Repository 3,123 items, 226,492 downloads
August 2009 to mid April 2012
Origin of downloads (top 10)
Coming soon
• Integration with the UCD Research Management
System (RMS)
– To allow researchers to upload papers as they update their profiles
Further information
• Head, Library Research Services
– julia.barrett@ucd.ie
– Ext. 7356
• IR project manager
– joseph.greene@ucd.ie
– Ext. 7398
• Visit the IR or our website
– http://irserver.ucd.ie
– http://www.ucd.ie/library/supporting_you/research_support/showcase_research/
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