Southampton University Research Repository

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/

POETS discussion on Open AccessPauline Simpson and Jessie Hey

23 September 2004

Institutional Repository route• 2 complementary routes to Open Access

• Open Access journals• Open Access repositories

• House of Commons Committee report July 2004 also supports Institutional Repositories

• Southampton University Repository already set up

• has capacity for adding full text (e-Prints) if available

• Dual role as research information system: Proactive recording Proactive access

All research output with full text if available

Deposit your new publications

• Records for Southampton Oceanography Centre for 2000 onwards have been imported

• Record your new publications inhttp://eprints.soton.ac.uk/ also linked from Library

web pages

• Add full text if you can

• Linked to copyright information:http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

• Help: eprints@soton.ac.uk

A service for all university research and schools

• Research repository for the University• RAE management tool (agreed at University

Research Policy Committee)– Developed by ECS for pilot RAE

• Becoming definitive publications record• Self recording or assisted• Secure storage for full text research output• One record for many uses• Globally searchable• Part of UK initiative (and global) - other UK

research universities also building repositories

Example of live link from Southampton Research

Repository to researcher web page

Searched nationally and globally by Google and specific

search engines

OAIster searches 3,488,842 records from 347 institutions(updated 2 September 2004)

e-Prints Soton database evolution