e-Publishing School of Modern Languages AwayDay May 2005 Bill Hubbard SHERPA Project Manager University of Nottingham

e-Publishing Material –e-journals –e-books –e-articles –e-papers –e-resources Methods –commercial access-controlled publishing –commercial open access publishing –open access repositories –online material for colleagues & students

Institutional repositories Digital collections that preserve and provide access to the intellectual output of an institution. May contain a variety of digital objects –eprints –etheses –book chapters –conference papers Open access encourages wider use of information assets

Repositories in context Supplementary to traditional publication Does not affect current research publication processes Gives easy access Gives rapid access Gives long-term access Increases readership and use of material value added services –hit counts on papers –personalised publications lists –citation analyses

Publication & Deposition Author writes paper Submits to journal Paper refereed Revised by author Author submits final version Published in journal Deposits in e-print repository

Possible concerns Subject base more natural ? –institutional infrastructure, view by subject Quality control ? –peer-review clearly labelled Plagiarism –old problem - and easier to detect Papers already on personal or departmental website –unstructured for access, search, preservation, RAE Threat to journals? –evidence shows co-existence possible - but in the future... ?

Repositories at Nottingham Nottingham ePrints Nottingham Modern Languages Publications Archive Nottingham eTheses

Nottingham ePrints Home Page

Department Listing

Critical Theory Listing

Tormey Metadata

Tormey pdf

Department page

Departmental publications page

Google - Millington

114th Result - Millington

MLPA Front page

Attwood Google

MLPA Usage - so far Since December 2003, 17,706 requests Average requests per day: 33

MLPA Usage - April 2005 Successful requests: 1,733 Average requests per day: 57

e-Publishing & e-Dissemination Commercial publishing models have adopted online distribution - and are changing... Repository use is growing Wide support for open access Benefits for research - and researchers RCUK position statement Opportunities for different dissemination routes in future