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UK Institutional Repository Activity: A longitudinal study
No full textA longitudinal study of UK Institutional Repository activity based on data from the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
Citebase Search: Autonomous Citation Database for e-Print Archives
No full textCitebase is a culmination of the Opcit Project and the Open Archives Initiative. The Opcit Project's aim to citation-link arXiv.org was coupled with the interoperability of the OAI to develop a cross-archive search engine with the ability to harvest, parse, and link research paper bibliographies. These citation links create a classic citation database which is used to generate citation analysis and navigation over the e-print literature. Citebase is now linked from arXiv.org, alongside SLAC/SPIRES, and is integrated with e-Prints.org repositories using Paracite
Citation Services Project Report
No full textThis record contains 4 videos demonstrating tools built into the EPrints software for supporting the extraction of citation data from Microsoft Word (docx), LaTeX and PDF
DepositMOre: Applying tools to increase full-text content in institutional repositories
No full textThis presentation reconsiders the conventional approach towards deposit of new content in digital repositories, by reconceptualising deposit workflow and asking how and whether we can use this to substantially increase deposit volumes. We recap the user tools from the DepositMO project, which were underpinned by the then-new SWORDv2. In contrast, deposit tools developed in DepositMOre are EPrints apps aimed at repository managers rather than end-users. We explore the use and current status of these apps, including a video deposit app and an app to upload and manage archaeology image collections, presenting initial feedback from real repository implementations. Is more content the primary target for repositories? We review the challenges facing repositories as the context for understanding the outcomes of this work and future directions.<br/
Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals
No full textThe way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. Such ongoing comparisons are revealing dramatic citation advantages for OA
Size isn’t everything: sustainable repositories as evidenced by sustainable deposit profiles
No full textThe key to a successful repository is sustained deposits, and the key to sustained deposits is community engagement. This paper looks at deposit profiles automatically generated from OAI harvesting information and argues that repositories characterised by occasional large-volume deposits are a sign of a failure to embed in institutional processes. The ideal profile for a successful repository is discussed, and a new service that ranks repositories based on these criteria is implemented
Citation Analysis in the Open Access World
No full textRecent reports by the UK Parliament Committee on Science and Technology and the US House Appropriations Committee have recommended mandating that researchers provide Open Access (OA) to their research articles by self-archiving them free for all on the Web. OA is now firmly on the agenda for funding agencies, universities, libraries and publishers. What is needed now is objective, quantitative evidence of the benefits of OA to research authors, their institutions, their funders and to research itself. Web-based analysis of usage and citation patterns is providing this evidence
How and Why to Free All Refereed Research from Access- and Impact-Barriers, Now How and Why To Free All Refereed Research
No full textResearchers publish their findings in order to make an impact on research, not in order to sell their words. Access-tolls are barriers to research impact. Authors can now free their refereed research papers from all access tolls immediately by self-archiving them on-line in their own institution's Eprint Archives. Free eprints.org software creates Archives compliant with the Open Archives Initiative metadata-tagging Protocol OAI 1.0. These distributed institutional Archives are interoperable and can hence be harvested into global "virtual" archives, citation-linked and freely navigable by all. Self-archiving should enhance research productivity and impact as well as providing powerful new ways of monitoring and measuring it
Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact
No full textAbstract: The use of citation counts to assess the impact of research articles is well established. However, the citation impact of an article can only be measured several years after it has been published. As research articles are increasingly accessed through the Web, the number of times an article is downloaded can be instantly recorded and counted. One would expect the number of times an article is read to be related both to the number of times it is cited and to how old the article is. This paper analyses how short-term Web usage impact predicts medium-term citation impact. The physics e-print archive -- arXiv.org -- is used to test this
From the Desktop to the Cloud: Leveraging Hybrid Storage Architectures in your Repository
No full textRepositories collect and manage data holdings using a storage device. Mainly this has been a local file system, but recently attempts have been made at using open storage products and cloud storage solutions, such as Sun's Honeycomb and Amazon S3 respectively. Each of these solutions has their own pros and cons but There are advantages in adopting a hybrid model for repository storage, combining the relative strengths of each one in a policy-determined model. In this paper we present an implementation of a repository storage layer which can dynamically handle and manage a hybrid storage system
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