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/