Benefits
Benefits to the University research community
“Open access articles receive 50% more full-text accesses and PDF downloads than subscription-access articles”
Kenneth R. Fulton, PNAS Publisher
By raising the profile of our researchers by:
- Encouraging all research at the University of Huddersfield to be made publicly available and searchable
- Increasing dissemination and impact of University research output on a global scale, via search engines such as Google Scholar
- Providing a critical mass of high quality research, including non textual material such as music, art and media, through services such as EThOS, OpenDOAR, and Summon.
- Ensuring that the Repository becomes central to the University research strategy and workflows
- Providing a standardised, automatically updated format of author information for research CVs
- Creating a managed approach to research output in order to provide better management reporting, both for the REF, funders and internal practices
- Raising awareness of similar research interests, thus contributing to the further development of interdisciplinary approaches
- Enhancing the user experience for Post Graduate Research students by helping to build a University research culture and by making their theses available through EThOS in order for them to aspire to further research through external networks
- Helping to fulfil Research Council mandates
- Checking the copyright
- Long term preservation of the University’s research output
Benefits to the wider repository community
By sharing the lessons learned, most notably on:
- Increasing content by clearing non textual material for inclusion in the Repository
- Enhancing user experience by improvements to the interface and workflows allowing increased discoverability and seamless depositing of material
- Preservation issues in conjunction with the University Archives
- Publication of all new policy documents and workflows
- Sharing issues surrounding interoperability and embedding within other University systems
- Methods for sourcing metadata from external sources and providing metadata to University systems
- Input into the staff appraisal process