Open Access

Niamh BrennanTrinity College Dublin

DRIVER Summit, Goettingen,January 17th 2008

Local Integration, National Federation

TCD-RSS, TARA, IReL-Open, Expertise Ireland

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TCD Strategic Plan

“A coherent information policy for College to address the needs of management, the Library, e-learning, electronic publications and records management will be developed with a view to having an integrated view of information systems across the whole of College.

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A research database will be part of an integrated management system to help monitor our progress in research and scholarship and to help manage their support.”

-TCD Strategic Plan, Chapter 5: Strategy to Realise our Vision of Trinity, Action 18, p26

- CV-driven- Fully integrated with complementary systems- initial population from Human Resources records- updated & enhanced ‘live’ by researcher,- mediated input on-demand (Library-based service)

Research Profile on College Staff Directory

Personal URL/Research Webpage

Live feed on to School webpages

Daily extracts to expertiseireland.com

- Fully integrated with Research Support System- Added value to records in both systems

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ExpertiseIreland

Peoplefinder /Web /

College Systems

WEB

E-publishing,DigitisationProjects, etc

ResearchSupportSystem

Repository

TCD Research Support SystemTCD Research Support System

January 2008DRIVERBibliographic records from ISI:- Integrated with ISI institutional Citation Report for TCD- By agreement with ISI- Specifically requested by researchers

Processes: TARA

• Submitter checks

• Agrees to Licence

• Submission enters Workflow (email to Reviewer)

• Checked & approved

• Archived

Repository with Added Value

Link to Researcher’s Profile

Link to live ISI Citation Record

Research Support System with Fulltext Links

January 2008DRIVERTCD Institutional Repository - in an Integrated

Environment

Institutional

Repository

Human Resources

Physical Resources

Financials

Library

Student Administratio

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Research Support System• Bibliographic metadata (inc. ISI)• Research Expertise• Project tracking

Web server

Web Services

FTP server

DMZ DMZ

External Bodies

• The web / •Search engines etc.• OAI harvesters

External Bodies

• The web / •Search engines etc.• OAI harvesters

External Bodies

• Thesis Print-Shop

External Bodies

• Thesis Print-ShopExternal Bodies

• expertiseireland.com• Portal Reviewers

External Bodies

• expertiseireland.com• Portal Reviewers

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

http://www.irel-open.ie

• Higher Education Authority -funded under Strategic Innovation Fund

• National Development Plan

• Research as critical to economic development

• National research profile

• Managed by the Irish Universities Association

IReL-Open Initiative

IReL- Open: National Research Portal

• To be hosted by Expertise Ireland

• Single point of access to national research output

• Harvested from university repositories

• Includes published research across all disciplines

• Author ID

• Citation Analysis

• Future: Data sets

21 European Partners: http://www.dart-europe.eu/

• Promotion of your research and that of your group

• Facility to generate and download a personal Curriculum Vitae..

• A personal URL to link to from your business card or website.

• A means of creating and maintaining up-to-date publications lists.

• A means of generating reports for internal and external use.

• Automatic inclusion in the annual TCD Calendar’s list of publications.

• A means of avoiding repetition in the request-for / provision-of information.

• An opportunity for your research profile to be exported to the Expertise Ireland portal.

• Details from your RSS profile can be automatically used for your internal grant applications.

• An increasing number of Schools have arranged a ‘live feed’ of information from the RSS onto their web pages

• New: upload the full text of your publication directly into TCD’s open access digital repository and maximise its audience and impact on the world wide web.

The Benefits to the Researcher

IRCSET PROPOSED POLICY

• All researchers must lodge their publications resulting in whole or in part from IRCSET-funded research in an open access repository as soon as possible after publication, to be made openly accessible within 6 months at the latest.

• The repository may be a local institutional repository and/or a subject repository;

• Authors should deposit post-prints (or publisher’s version if permitted) plus metadata of articles accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings;

• Deposit should be made upon acceptance by the journal/conference. Repositories should release the metadata immediately, with access restrictions to full text article to be applied as required. Open access should be available as soon as practicable after the author-requested embargo, or six month, whichever comes first;

• Suitable repositories should make provision for long-term preservation of, and free public access to, published research findings....

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January 2008DRIVER

Open Access

Niamh BrennanTrinity College Dublin

Phone: +353 1 896 1646Email: niamh.brennan@tcd.ie