Category Archives: Open Access

The Top Five Institutional Repository Downloads For March

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The run up to Easter was a busy time for our Institutional Repository. Here’s a run-down of the top five most downloaded items for March:

1.  Effect of preharvest UV-treatment on shelf life of fruits and vegetables by Matthew A. Obande. (holding steady at no.1 with 340 downloads)

2. The effects of open access mandates on institutional repositories in the UK and Germany by Sabine Puskas (151 downloads, up two places from last month!)

3. Feasibility of zero carbon homes in England by 2016: a house builder’s perspective by Mohamed Osmani and Alistair O’Reilly (125 downloads, down one place from no.2 last month)

4. Protectionism to liberalisation : Ireland and the EEC, 1957 to 1966 by Maurice Fitzgerald (109 downloads) 

5. Silica fume concrete in hot and temperate environments by A.S.S. Al-Eesa (98 downloads)

Our repository increases the visibility of Loughborough’s research and the materials within it are centrally stored and preserved. The material in the collection includes journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and theses. To find out more about it, and how you can submit your research, visit the IR homepage here.

Claim your research papers! New Citation Tool from Google

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 Google have introduced a new gadget called Google Scholar Citations.  This allows you to ‘claim’ your research papers via Google Scholar and create a citation profile for yourself.  You can merge duplicate records, and delete erroneous ones.  Your profile will then appear when someone searches for you on Google.  It will provide citation data (your h-index, and cites per paper) and of course, links to the papers themselves if available on open access, thus (hopefully) resulting in more citations!

Go claim your work!

Open Access Week

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This week marks Open Access Week, which represents an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

Now in its fifth year, the scheme promotes the availability of free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as  required. Such freely available access to information is regarded as vitally necessary, having direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.

The Library has already taken positive steps towards Open Access through our Institutional Repository, which increases the visibility of Loughborough’s research while digitally preserving the University’s intellectual output.

And if you have any queries or issues regarding the IR or Open Access, our team of Academic Librarians are on hand to help. Why not drop them a line?

To find out more about Open Access Week and the scheme, visit their website here.