Raising your research profile Graham Stone Repository Manager Publishing and the University Repository This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

Where to publish? You could leave the decision until after you have written your paper –Fine for experienced researchers For early career researchers the more certain you are about which journal you are aiming for, the easier it is to write the paper

Making the right choice Selecting the wrong journal –Research dismissed due to lack of expertise in the subject area –Publication held up for months in the review process and then dismissed –No proper peer review due to lack of expertise –Published and never read – wrong area

Ask yourself these questions Where would I read articles in my research area? What are the best journals in my field? Are they still publishing in my research area? Is readership at the level I want to influence? How often do they publish?

Look before you leap Before you submit –Look at the TOCs –Read the notes to contributors –Read the editorials –Check the Journal Citation Reports –Ask your colleagues/peers

Limitations of traditional publishing Access limited for: –Researchers, especially across disciplines in low income countries at smaller institutions working from home or remotely –Funding bodies –Society as a whole

Accessibility of NHS-funded articles to public

Accessibility of NHS-funded articles within the NHS

Open Access is… Free and immediate online access to research... without any barriers (other than connecting to the Internet) Permanent archiving in international repositories Authors/Creators retain copyright, and agree that anyone is free –to copy, distribute, and display the work –to make derivative works –to make commercial use of the work –provided that the original authors/creators are given credit

Open Access Publishing There are two main open-access routes –Gold or author-pays authors (supported by their funders) pay the costs of publishing in an open-access or hybrid journal so that peer-reviewed articles then appear online and can be accessed immediately for free. –Green Authors self-archive the final peer-reviewed versions of their articles in an institutional repositories, where they are available for anyone to view.

Citations and downloads “Open access articles receive 50% more full-text accesses and PDF downloads than subscription- access articles” Kenneth R. Fulton, PNAS Publisher “…OA articles are cited earlier and are, on average, cited more often than non-OA articles” Eysenbach G (2006) Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biol 4(5): e157. doi: /journal.pbio

Why put your research into the Repository? Visibility –Showcasing university research Accountability –Getting ready for the REF –‘As part of the REF, the funding bodies aim to identify and reward the impact that excellent research has had on society and the economy, and to encourage the sector to build on this to achieve the full potential impact across a broad range of research activity in the future’ Preservation –Collecting together all research material generated by university staff To increase your citations!

The University Repository Total –8861 items 2863 on Open Access 32% –3118 items 1598 on Open Access 51%

The ingredients Articles Book chapters Books Conference papers …and more

‘Words are only context, not the final form’ Stephanie Meece, UAL

Art, music and performance You may have something born digital Or a representation of an event Or (more likely) a combination –Film –Still posters –Flyers and promotions –Text or links to reviews –Accompanying text

Theses 260 PhD theses Since 2007, all theses are made available on Open Access –Subject to embargo if: Seeking publication (2 yrs) Commercial in confidence (10 yrs) Data Protection (indefinite)

The 175 th best Repository in the World! 1.University of Southampton (Electronics and Computer Science) 2.Natural Environmental Research Council 3.University of Southampton 4.UCL 5.University of Durham 6.Lancaster University 7.Open University 8.LSE 9.White Rose Consortium 10.University of Glasgow 11.Cambridge University 12.University of Huddersfield 13.University of Edinburgh 14.Cranfield University 15.University of Bournemouth 16.University of Salford 17.University of Stirling 18.University of Leicester 19.Bath University 20.Warwick University 21.University of Nottingham 22.Brunel University 23.University of Lincoln 24.University of Kent 25.School of Advanced Studies

Measuring success 85,041 full text downloads in the last 12 months

Tracking usage Usage statistics are available for all full text items Possible to deduce from a spike in the patterns that someone just cited your work?

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Copyright Provide us with the ‘author accepted’ version of your research –that is the author-created version that incorporates referee comments and is the version accepted for publication We link to the published version We check copyright

Pinfield, Stephen, Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship? Learned Publishing, 2009, 22 (3),

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Graham Stone I've also had a number of international scholars and research students read my articles and listen to the music I have available in the repository, as a result, I am now pursuing collaborative research projects with music studios and researchers in Mexico and Norway. Monty Adkins Over to you…