Automated concept / keyword generation for journal articles in repositories
I was checking out a research paper in the ACM Digital Library: SibylFS: formal specification and oracle-based testing for POSIX and real-world file systems and spotted something interesting: a “Concepts in this article” drop-down “Powered by IBM Watson” For more on Watson, see IBM Watson: Beyond Jeopardy! Q&A I’ve been thinking what calls to action a user […]
Examining readership of our institutional repository
Longer term I feel one of the most important things I do is increase research impact. I also want to celebrate our successes and build goodwill, support and demand for our services. One of the simpler things I can measure is access and readership of our institutional repository Leicester Research Archive (LRA) We use DSpace for […]
Top ten book chapters in LRA
I’ve used the IRUS-UK service to find out what book chapters in Leicester Research Archive (LRA) have been most downloaded in last few months. Top of the list is Dr. Corbett, J.M. ‘Technology‘. In: P. Hancock and A. Spicer (eds), Understanding corporate life, Sage, 2009, pp. 10-26. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9839 Perhaps it is because of its ubiquity and taken-for-grantedness in […]
Recent most popular Open Access publications range across seven decades
I’ve been taking a look at what has been most popular recently in our Open Access repository of University of Leicester research publications: Our most read Leicester Research Archive (LRA) publication over the last month was Halla Diyab’s 2008 Doctoral Thesis, “Crossing the margin: minorities and marginality in the drama of Tennessee Williams.” Controversy following […]
More reasons not to publish OA?
Thanks to Anton Angelo for a couple more good challenges we get back when we ask people about depositing their research in their institutional repository: I already put it up on Arxiv? This is just wasted effort! I’ve been thinking about this one for a few days and have had similar queries here: why don’t […]
Why not deposit Open Access?
I hear concerns about depositing publications in our Open Access repository: Leicester Research Archive and think we need to address them. Some I think are good reasons not to simply go with Open Access. With many others I’m aiming for engagement and probably reassurance and encouragement rather than agreeing with barriers. As ever, I could […]
Why deposit your research in LRA
This morning I helped present a short session in the library and on-line as part of our Research elevenses sessions on Managing your research output: Making your publications available through the Leicester Research Archive. A recording will be available soon. My part was on why a researcher might want to deposit their research in our archive. I collected some […]
Why Green Open Access?
I’m interested in promoting open access to research and will help present next week’s Research elevenses half hour talk on Making your publications available through the Leicester Research Archive. I’m starting with Why Green Open Access? I expect to think on this topic and expand in the future on it. Eprints: Open Access has some useful pointers: Mandates and Metrics: How Open […]
Symplectic 5th user conference
On 28 May 2013 I went to the 5th of Symplectic’s user conferences at Woburn House in London. We use their Elements product for our Integrated Research Information System (IRIS): for the University of Leicester’s internal research data management. Elements sits connected to many sources of publication information and presents researchers with an online CV of their publications and links […]
Making a start
I’m just getting started in my new job as manager of Leicester Research Archive. I plan to use this blog as a companion as I learn about digital preservation, the open access political landscape and the workflows and technologies of open access archiving of research publications and in the future the data behind the publications. […]
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