Lenus Survey 2014 Results Aoife Lawton & Padraig Manning HSE Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 8. Repository Network Ireland Teachmeet 24 th Oct 2014

Aims: To update the 2012 survey – see audience differences/similarities Tap into user feedback/communicate with users Raise awareness about (1) OA (2) Lenus Inform future repository direction – strategic plan Ensure democratisation of repository Report progress in key achievements for 2014

Methods: Best practice?  Nobody in Ireland has done a survey of their repository users.  Or if they have, they haven’t made it OA or published it! UK  Survey of academic attitudes to open access and institutional repositories – a shared RSP and UKCoRR initiative from some questions adapted for Lenus survey

Methods: Questions were a mix of those from our 2012 survey and the UKCoRR survey We ran these by a HSE researcher Test run of survey with Lenus Working Group

Distribution of the Survey

Results – awareness about OA responses 46% not heard of OA HSE OA statement issued in ,477 responses 58% not heard of OA 85% not heard of HSE OA Statement In both surveys, Google was the top resource in searching for Irish health research

More than 85% said they used Lenus for carrying out research OR improving patient care (41.34%) Job Done!

New Collections?  E.g. parliamentary questions, pre-hospital care / paramedic, statistics, specific conference proceedings, health informatics Added Functionality?  Export all  Author s  Save search  Drop box/cloud storage links

Research Activity

Willingness to conduct research

Conclusion Mainly positive feedback, however more work to be done on  Awareness about OA  Awareness about Lenus  Demos & Tutorials Wider implications for health research - research culture, time, value in the organisation