e-Publishing

School of Modern Languages AwayDay May 2005

Bill HubbardSHERPA 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

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk

bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk