1. Manchester eScholar Services: the first 9 months
Research Administrators Conference, 15th June 2010
Dr Phil Butler
Today I’ll like to give you a brief overview of the University’s Institutional Repository Project.
My presentation is in four parts,
I’ll start with why this Project exists,
Then I’ll give you an overview of what the project hopes to deliver and when
And finish by bringing you up to date with what’s happened so far
So lets get started …

2. What is Manchester eScholar?

3. Manchester eScholar is … a locus for individuals to manage, disseminate and share their scholarly work

4. Manchester eScholar is … a place to store and preserve intellectual assets

5. Manchester eScholar is … a catalogue of research outputs

6. Manchester eScholar www. manchester. ac. uk/escholar “
Manchester eScholar “... aims to sustain and enhance the research reputations of individuals and organisations affiliated with the University of Manchester.” hosted by John Rylands University Library

7. The institutional repository effect – an individual’s experience, Ray L Frost, QUT
QUT repository launched in Professor Ray Frost was a big supporter and started depositing his materials. QUT introduce deposit policy in Professor Frost is top of the usage stats. NB: ~30% of usage is in last year alone.
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8. The institutional repository effect – an individual’s experience, Ray L Frost, QUT

9. Manchester eScholar – a suite of services

10. MyeScholar service – archiving scholarly work

11. “Self-archiving involves … depositing a free copy of a digital document ... in the author’s institutional repository ...”

12. Its like ...

13. RPE, REF
Research Excellence Framework ...!!

14. Simple to comprehensive options ...
Option 1. Lite-cite submission (not recommended)
Option 2. Key metadata
Option 3. Option 2 + supplementary metadata
Option 4. Option 2 + full-text
pre-peer review (draft),
post-peer review (non-publishers document),
post-peer review (publishers document)
Option 5. Option 2 + supplementary files
And it DOES NOT mean more SPAM
And others …

15. Simple to comprehensive options ...
Option 1. Lite-cite submission (not recommended)
Option 2. Key metadata
Option 3. Option 2 + supplementary metadata
Option 4. Option 2 + full-text
pre-peer review (draft),
post-peer review (non-publishers document),
post-peer review (publishers document)
Option 5. Option 2 + supplementary files
And it DOES NOT mean more SPAM
And others …

16. Simple to comprehensive options ...
Option 1. Lite-cite submission (not recommended)
Option 2. Key metadata
Option 3. Option 2 + supplementary metadata
Option 4. Option 2 + full-text
pre-peer review (draft),
post-peer review (non-publishers document),
post-peer review (publishers document)
Option 5. Option 2 + supplementary files
And it DOES NOT mean more SPAM
And others …

17. Simple to comprehensive options ...
Option 1. Lite-cite submission (not recommended)
Option 2. Key metadata
Option 3. Option 2 + supplementary metadata
Option 4. Option 2 + full-text
pre-peer review (draft),
post-peer review (non-publishers document),
post-peer review (publishers document)
Option 5. Option 2 + supplementary files
And others …

18. Simple to comprehensive options ...
Option 1. Lite-cite submission (not recommended)
Option 2. Key metadata
Option 3. Option 2 + supplementary metadata
Option 4. Option 2 + full-text
pre-peer review (draft),
post-peer review (non-publishers document),
post-peer review (publishers document)
Option 5. Option 2 + supplementary files
And it DOES NOT mean more SPAM
And others …

19. Self-archiving activity: January to May 2010
And it DOES NOT mean more SPAM
And others …

20. Self-archiving activity: January to May 2010
And it DOES NOT mean more SPAM
And others …

21. eScholar interoperability service –disseminating scholarly work

22. eScholar interoperability service
corporate website
faculty and school websites

23. eScholar reporting service – profiling scholarly work

24. Research Excellence Framework ...!!

25. Research Excellence Framework ...!!

26. Publishing profiles

27. MyETD service – electronic submission and preservation of University theses

28. My ETD service last stages of deployment ~140 PGR students
~160 submissions (140 exam, 20 final)
PG administrators trained
handover complete end June

29. ETD submission windows
... a gateway by which ETD submissions occur and are managed
required for student to submit ETD
types of window
states of a window

30. ETD submission window types
... determine the properties of a submission
Doctoral level ETD – examination (first submission)
Doctoral level ETD – examination (re-submission)
Doctoral level ETD – final
Doctoral level ETD – final MPhil (re-classification)

31. ETD submission window states
... determine what can be done with a submission
Pending
Awaiting submission
Expired
Cancelled
Deposited
Acknowledged
Rejected
Sent to library
Processed by library

32. What’s next? Improved performance – ready for RPE’10
More dissemination – richer search/display
Better metadata – start filling in the gaps
More archiving options – Wok, Scopus, Bibtex

33. Dr Phil Butler p.butler@manchester.ac.uk www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar
Questions?
Dr Phil Butler
And let’s finish there … questions?