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Project Acronym: UHRA Version: Final Contact: Gill Hall Date: March 2009 Project Document Cover Sheet . Project Information Project Acronym UHRA Project Title University of Hertfordshire Research Archive Start Date March 2007 End Date March 2009 Lead Institution University of Hertfordshire Project Director David Piper Project Manager & contact details Monica Rivers-Latham University of Hertfordshire 01707 284725 Partner Institutions None Project Web URL https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/ Programme Name (and number) JISC 4/06: Repositories and Preservation Programme Manager Andrew McGregor Document Name Document Title UHRA Final Report Reporting Period March 2007 March 2009 Author(s) & project role Gill Hall, UHRA Project Officer [email protected] 01707 285027 Date Filename URL http://uhra.herts.ac.uk/uhra/ Access Project and JISC internal General dissemination Document History Version Date Comments Draft 20.2.09 Draft sent to JISC & Programme Board Final 25.3.09 Sent to JISC

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Project Document Cover Sheet

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Project Information

Project Acronym UHRA

Project Title University of Hertfordshire Research Archive

Start Date March 2007 End Date March 2009

Lead Institution University of Hertfordshire

Project Director David Piper

Project Manager & contact details

Monica Rivers-Latham

University of Hertfordshire 01707 284725

Partner Institutions None

Project Web URL https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/

Programme Name (and number)

JISC 4/06: Repositories and Preservation

Programme Manager Andrew McGregor

Document Name

Document Title UHRA Final Report

Reporting Period March 2007 – March 2009

Author(s) & project role

Gill Hall, UHRA Project Officer

[email protected] 01707 285027

Date Filename

URL http://uhra.herts.ac.uk/uhra/

Access Project and JISC internal General dissemination

Document History

Version Date Comments

Draft 20.2.09 Draft sent to JISC & Programme Board

Final 25.3.09 Sent to JISC

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JISC Final Report .

Title Page

University of Hertfordshire Research Archive (UHRA) https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/ Final report – written by David Piper

Gill Hall Monica Rivers-Latham

Contact: [email protected] March 2009

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Index

Acknowledgements..................................................................................... 4 Aims & objectives....................................................................................... 5 Appendices................................................................................................. 12-32 Author names............................................................................................. 7 Copyright.................................................................................................... 7 Executive summary.................................................................................... 4 Implementation........................................................................................... 6 Licences...................................................................................................... 8 Mandate...................................................................................................... 6 Mediated archiving...................................................................................... 10 Methodology............................................................................................... 6 Non-print formats........................................................................................ 9 Open access............................................................................................... 4, 5 Outcomes.................................................................................................... 11 Outputs & results........................................................................................ 10 Presentations.............................................................................................. 9 Project management................................................................................... 7 Promotional materials................................................................................. 8, 9 & Appendices Publisher permissions................................................................................. 8, 24 RAE/REF.................................................................................................... 4 Self-archiving.............................................................................................. 10 Statistics..................................................................................................... 12-15 Survey........................................................................................................ 16-19 Technical support....................................................................................... 9 Theses/EThOS........................................................................................... 8, 9 Training...................................................................................................... 8, 9 Versions..................................................................................................... 7

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Acknowledgements

UHRA – Project funded by JISC March 2007-March 2009 JISC 4/06: Repositories and Preservation. Thanks to: Andrew McGregor and other RSP staff for their advice and support. Martin Moyle (UCL) for agreeing to be a member of the Programme Board. The SHERPA team at Nottingham. Fellow repository staff at other institutions for their support network.

Executive Summary The University of Hertfordshire (UH) has substantial highly regarded research activity across a range of subject disciplines producing research outputs in a range of formats and media. The UH Research Committee made an institutional commitment to an open access repository and a mandatory policy for the deposit of published journal articles, conference papers etc and higher degree theses. The main aims of the ensuing project were to achieve a substantial „critical mass‟ repository content and to embed sustainable self-archiving operational arrangements and practice across the University. The UHRA Project Team, based within the Learning and Information Services (LIS) department, was formed to carry out the project work. The Project Team reports to the UH Programme Board which was formed to manage the project on behalf of the Research Committee. A full-time Project Officer was employed for the 2 years of the project. The Project Team has presented/publicised and promoted UHRA wherever possible. From taking advantage of attending as an agenda item at departmental meetings, through 1 hour presentations at a variety of venues to full 2 hour training sessions. The UHRA started as a 100% open access full text repository and, although full text is still the preferred mode, a pragmatic decision was taken in October 2008 to permit some bibliographic only records where no appropriate copy was available. This was requested by academic staff at the Programme Board who wanted to see UHRA as a place to list all their publications even if some could not be full-text. The Project Team recognised that this could be a development that could secure the sustainability of the archive, beyond the end of JISC funding, by being responsive to user needs. The 2000 deposit milestone (for 100% full text) was achieved in July 2008. Following the successful results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the University is already working towards the next assessment cycle, the Research Excellence Framework. Although the REF requirements are not yet finalised it is expected that the use of bibliometrics will play a role in the new arrangements and we hope that the UHRA can play an important part in assisting the University to even greater success. The primary mission of UHRA will continue to be to showcase UH research and to ensure that it is visible (via search engines) and available (via downloadable text or appropriate links) to researchers. Appropriate citations, and other forms of recognition such as the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings, will follow as consequences.

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Background In 2005 the University made an institutional commitment to increasing access to scholarly communications through the establishment of an institutional repository of research outputs. The repository is called the University of Hertfordshire Research Archive (UHRA). A working group was established by the University‟s Research Committee to take the project forward and the following foundation work was undertaken:-

evaluation of available repository software, selection of DSpace and establishment of a resilient technical infrastructure

agreement on the structure of communities and collections

individual accounts for academic/research staff

an existing publications database containing records of over 3,500 UH research publications to underpin the creation of repository content.

A group of „early adopters‟ were contacted and the deposit process tested. A temporary project officer was appointed on a 3 month contract in November 2006 to start checking bibliographic references and publisher permissions. The JISC funded 2 year project from March 2007 to March 2009 was essential to take the repository to the next stage of development.

Aims and Objectives The aim of this project was to take the UHRA to the next stage of development with the following objectives:- 1. To achieve a substantial ‘critical mass’ repository content. Over 2500 items deposited, 90% full text. 2. To embed sustainable self-archiving operational arrangements and practice across the University.

Self-archiving has been slow to take off. It was recognised that the deposit licence needed changing as some of the wording had become a deterrent and a mediated service was introduced to further encourage authors. Astrophysics staff already archive their papers in their subject repository arXiv and they didn‟t want to duplicate work. They were happy for the Project Officer to transfer the papers on their behalf. (with agreement of arXiv).

3. To contribute to the enhancement of open access to research outputs for all through completion of the UH Research Archive.

UHRA is no longer a 100% open access full text repository. The decision was taken in October 2008 to permit some retrospective bibliographic only records where no appropriate copy was available. Authors wanted to be able to include all their work in the one place.

4. To identify, evaluate and disseminate transferable good practice models in respect of 1 and 2 above. 5. To participate in the JISC funded network of digital repositories.

Contact was made with Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Worcester (based on the same stream of JISC funding) and Cranfield University‟s EMBED project. Brief project summary reports were circulated between the teams in July 2007 and staff met up to network at JISC RSP and UKCoRR events. Expected collaboration was limited in practice. (Not direct project partners)

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Methodology

It was decided that UHRA project management would be done by a cross university steering group (UHRA Programme Board ) established by the University‟s Research Committee with representation from all research areas. It was felt important for the project for the research community to take ownership of the repository and not to have it seen as a Learning and Information Services department tool. Day to day work has been done by the UHRA project team which is based within LIS. The repository software chosen for the UHRA is DSpace which supports the common standards for institutional repositories (XML, Dublin Core, OAI-PMH and METS). The repository was established with the intention of being 100% full-text openly accessible to all. After the establishment of the technical infrastructure and the organisation within DSpace of communities/collections and individual staff accounts, the decision was taken to concentrate first on building up the repository content. An existing citation database which had been constructed for the 2008 RAE provided extremely useful source data for this phase. The Project Officer first contacted authors who had shown an early interest in the repository and had been involved in the initial planning stage. As the content grew, presentations, training sessions and promotional activities were started throughout the University. Although the UHRA project was not set up with any direct project partners it was intended to collaborate with Cranfield University, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Worcester on the advocacy and embedding strand of the programme.

Implementation The University of Hertfordshire had already established a resilient technical infrastructure based on two servers in diverse locations and had a working DSpace installation at https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/ . University agreement had been reached on the structure of communities and collections within DSpace and individual accounts for academic / research staff had been created. This structure has had to be regularly reviewed to match changes made to the structure of the University. The Project Director was not initially able to do batch updating of accounts and creation of new accounts for the repository. This was something that the Project Team had to request another IT team to do. Workflow was therefore simplified when this was changed and could be more responsive to the project needs. Further improvement will take place with the introduction of the University‟s identity management system. The assignment of academic/research staff as submitters to specific collections had to be looked at early in the project. It can cause a stumbling block for first time self-archivers if no collection is available for them to start. It would have been possible to allocate all collections to all authors but this was thought too unwieldy and could deter self-archiving. Authors were asked to choose what collection(s) they would like when approached for papers and the Project Officer tries to pre-empt the problem by taking the information from staff web profiles and departmental web pages etc. There is also the option to map items across more than one collection to accommodate staff from different departments who are working together on a research project.

A mandate was agreed in principle by the UH Research Committee. The decision was made not to push for formal policy documents and enforce it until critical mass had been achieved in terms of repository content. Mandate enforcement will need to be negotiated with senior research management – encouragement and understanding of advantages are seen as more appropriate than a „big stick‟ approach.

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The first phase of the UHRA project was to work with the research community to assist with permission checking and to bulk load retrospective publications to achieve a critical mass of repository content. Existing work for RAE 2008 had included a comprehensive citation database that provided the source data being used for this phase. A holding/working database to manage workflow had been set up in-house for use by the Project Officer. Deposits can be gradually built up - metadata, collection option, copyright, appropriate copy etc until ready for loading in UHRA. It makes it easy to see what progress is being made with any item and how many items are at each stage for each author. The Project website was established to publicise project details:- http://uhra.herts.ac.uk/uhra/ The UHRA Project Team, based within the Learning and Information Services department, was formed to do the day to day work. A Project Officer was employed to work full time on the 2 year project. The Team is made up of the following posts, including the percentage of their time to be spent on the project:- Project Director 3% Project Manager 20% Project Officer 100% Copyright & Licences Officer 10% Systems Administrator 3% The team hold regular progress meetings and produce monthly progress reports. (eg. Appendix 8) The Project Team reports to the UH Programme Board, a cross university group established by the Research Committee with representation from all research areas, plus an external member with repository experience. The Board provides strategic leadership and support to the project. The Project Officer started by checking publishers‟ permission policies for the inclusion of papers from the RAE citation database using ROMEO, journal websites or emails/letters to publishers. Standard letters/emails were agreed with the Copyright & Licences Officer. (Appendix 7) A group of „early adopters‟ had been established but there was too long between the initial contact with them and second contact and the project had to be re-introduced and explained to them again. One-to-one support sessions for pilot individuals were used as a learning process for the project team to inform training programme and procedures. The problem arose with identifying a consistent format for author names, especially when they are publishing internationally and may already be cited in an alternative format to that which we would like to adopt in UHRA. Retrieving all of an author‟s publications from UHRA is difficult if the author has self archived using a different format to the convention adopted by the Project Team loading retrospective content. Mediated deposit currently ensures consistency with the standardisation of author names currently done manually by the Project Officer, but this will become difficult to maintain as the archive grows. We have been interested in the work of the Names project, which is addressing name authority services and persistent, unique user identifiers in HE, using ID data sourced from ZETOC and UKPMC records. The issue of persistent personal identification within the system is also important to enable analysis of the citation impact of an author‟s articles. The version of the paper deposited in the archive depends on the publisher permissions and the availability of an appropriate electronic copy from the author. Papers in UHRA are not marked with a version identifier but all records include a link to the „original article.‟ The Project Officer attended a briefing session on the Version Identification Framework. Initial staff contact was for permission to load articles where publishers permitted use of their PDFs. Initial emails to staff were too wordy, trying to include too much information, which caused confusion. At this stage we also asked staff to select which collection(s) they wanted assigned to them. Some were not happy with the initially agreed structure of communities and collections and this had to be revisited and revised with subject groups being set up in addition to the formal Research Centre

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Groupings. This helped maximise buy-in by staff who felt an allegiance to one group and allowed for cross-discipline collaboration. Authors were then contacted for copies of papers where pre/postprints could be used. Some authors were confused over the different versions (preprints/postprints etc) and the terminology used. A lot of reassurance was needed for authors who were concerned about copyright issues. The Project Officer started by only approaching an author for the appropriate copy when publisher permission was clear or had been obtained. However, particularly for retrospective work, there is a balance between the time taken in contacting a publisher for permission where no ensuing paper is available from the author. The yearly permissions issue, whereby the Project Officer needs to approach publishers again after a year and ask for permission to continue to include an article in UHRA, is problematic given that we are trying to establish self-archiving. This is another reason why the Programme Board will be looking at continued quality control of content even if it has been self-archived. At present we have to maintain a central log of those publishers that need contacting, and when. The Project Officer also maintains a spreadsheet of articles under publisher embargo and releases them monthly at the appropriate time.

At the halfway stage of the project approximately 300 staff had been contacted and chased twice at least for past publications. About 200 staff had responded to the Project Officer but not everyone could provide copies of all of their papers. RAE 2008 submission publications were targeted and approximately half of these are now in the UHRA.

The Project Officer worked through school, research group and personal web pages for retrospective lists of publications. Alerts were set up with Web of Knowledge and Scopus to try and catch the majority of newly published journal articles published by UH staff.

The second phase of the project was to promote and embed sustainable self archiving, including promotional activities and documented processes for self archiving and for assisted batch uploading. There was a significant initial hold up with the wording of the deposit licence, self-archiving procedures could not be finalised and promoted until it was agreed. The Project Director had lengthy negotiations with the UH IPACS (Intellectual Property and Contract Support) department before agreement was reached. It still had to be revisited a year later as some authors were refusing to archive until the clause asking them to indemnify UH was removed. This was achieved along with the introduction of mediated archiving, with the Project Officer checking all entries for quality of the metadata and copyright permissions, and a rapid takedown policy. Two theses had to be removed from UHRA on a temporary basis due to the sensitivity of their contents. It was found that the „withdraw‟ option in DSpace did not serve the purpose and items had to be deleted or they could still be accessed via the internet. Because Google had already indexed the PDF the full-text record was not suppressed. The Project Officer therefore has to keep these items on file, outside UHRA, until they can be uploaded again. The link from the Voyager catalogue also had to be temporarily deleted. Attempts to embed the repository and raise its profile can lead to a lot of unpicking in circumstances such as this. There has been no individual launch event. Instead the Project Team has taken an opportunistic approach and presented/publicised and promoted UHRA wherever possible. The team have ensured that an article about an aspect of UHRA appears in every issue of our local LIS newspaper which is distributed across the University. (Appendix 6) We have attended Research Institute showcase events in order to network with individuals. UH has a formal presence in Secondlife and we have approached the team who are building this to look at ways to link to UHRA. The Project Officer attends every new staff induction to make contacts with new researchers and advertise UHRA on a marketplace stand. The Project Manager has contributed to a formal course that new Research Supervisors are required to attend and has helped run sessions for the Generic Training for Researchers programme.

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The Project Team sent a proposal to the People Development Unit (PDU) for UHRA training sessions. PDU advertised the sessions and the project team prepared content and handouts. Staff who attended training sessions usually became very enthusiastic about the project but needed regular follow up contact to maintain their interest. Initial sessions were poorly attended although feedback forms had rated the sessions as excellent. It was felt that they were a valuable way of spreading the message and making contacts. Sessions then received more publicity and endorsement by research managers encouraged more people to attend. Regular training sessions are still being offered. It has been vital for Project Team members to get to talk at as many arenas as possible – UH, faculty, school, department, individual. The presentation to the Research Committee in February 2008 was very well received and UHRA was seen as a timely project with a view to the changing RAE/REF exercises – this galvanised support across the community. We were then invited to further departmental level meetings and developed a range of presentation/training materials to suit anything from 15 minute slots to 2 hour training sessions Leaflets & handouts (Appendices 5 & 10), articles in UH and LIS newspapers and a poster presentation at the Vice Chancellor‟s staff address all continued to raise awareness of UHRA throughout the University. Unfortunately the promotional leaflet (Appendix 10) was delayed for a year due to a University rebranding exercise. Guidance and helpsheets were written including a step-by-step self-archiving guide and information on submission and copyright and permissions issues. They are all available online via StudyNet (VLE). (Appendix 11)

The 2000 milestone (then 100% full text) was achieved in July 2008 and was used as a promotional tool both within UH and externally. Information was fed to the Vice Chancellor‟s blog and from there picked up by the UH internal newsletter „e-clips‟. (Appendix 6). Externally via JISC & UKCORR email lists where it was picked up to appear in other blogs. This seemed to tip the balance in terms of individuals contacting the project team to ask about UHRA or more people knowing about the archive already, even if they had not archived anything. Heads of School were now asking their departmental staff to get involved and REF developments has helped to heighten the awareness of the Research Archive.

Requests were received to include UH publications in the UHRA starting with the Business School Working Papers, included to encourage use by the department. Blended Learning Conference Papers followed, then articles from the Journal for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (JELT) and the Hertfordshire Law Journal.

A Working Party was set up with the Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries to look at their non-print media research output. A range of individual staff have been contacted for examples of their work to use in pilot studies. We have been in contact with other institutions operating repositories that include non-print formats for advice.

The following issues are being investigated:

what counts as publication

what criteria is used for the different subjects for REF

durability of file formats and preservation

metadata, documentation and the artefact

The UH Research Office staff co-ordinate the archiving of all UH PhD theses including a signed agreement from the author that there are no third party copyright issues. The wording was later adapted to include EThOS requirements as UH was an early sponsor. Staff assist Research students to self-archive their PhD theses before they leave the university. The University Research Degrees regulation handbook has a statement included requiring students to deposit their thesis. We then add a MARC tag to the Voyager catalogue record linking it to the electronic version in UHRA giving access to it via the OPAC. Authors have an opportunity to apply for a time embargo if their thesis contains sensitive information.

The lack of technical support in-house has led to the submission process being more complicated than it has to be as the DSpace screens are largely untouched. Customisation and simpler screens

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would help to encourage self-archiving. The DSpace upgrade has also been delayed which has hindered corporate branding, statistics enhancement and EThOS compliance. Other members of the Project Team do not have the appropriate technical knowledge. The number of articles deposited by collection is used to create competition at departmental presentations and authors have started asking for statistics on the number of times their articles have been viewed/downloaded for research funding applications. These can only currently be supplied manually by the Project Officer. The Team are investigating the reporting functions of DSpace, Google Analytics and other statistical packages. Authors have been pleased (and surprised!) when they get requests from abroad to reprint/republish their material which has been discovered via UHRA. (eg. Appendix 6) While trying to embed the UHRA throughout the University it has sometimes been difficult managing the interaction between the UHRA and other University developments. UH had a major project underway in the summer of 2007 to relaunch the University website and researchers were expected to create a personal profile. The Web development team released information about this independently from the UHRA Project team. At the same time the UHRA Project Officer was contacting individuals to ask for publications to upload as a retrospective exercise. This led to confusion as to what authors were expected to do, compounded by the lack of publicity material, at the time, to help promote UHRA. We now encourage authors to link to their publications in UHRA from their profiles and technical support are investigating ways in which this could happen automatically.

While only a small number of authors have self-archived there has been a rise from 3 to 21 over the last 6 months, (February 2009). This will hopefully continue to grow as more staff are attending training sessions and are encouraged by the reassurance that the mediated service is checking the quality of entries and copyright.

The initial use of a mediated service offered some risk, but it encouraged more staff to engage with self-archiving without concerns for the accuracy of metadata and copyright issues. The content is largely due to the Project Officer, who is continuously trying to persuade authors to provide more content. We are not yet in a position where the archive can be self sustaining in the long-term. This scenario is the reality when authors perceive that they do not have time to archive, however it opposes the principles of embedding and UH research community ownership of the archive and is the major challenge for the next stages of the project.

Outputs and Results The project has established a functional well-populated repository for the University. UHRA currently holds approximately 2700 items (Appendix 1), 90% of which is full-text open access. A good range of subjects are covered by the „top 20‟ viewed/downloaded papers (Appendix 2). Authors are starting to ask for statistics on the use of their papers, particularly to include on research funding applications alongside their publication citation counts. Heads of Schools and departments are requesting information on the number of deposits for their subject areas (Appendix 3). A survey was carried out during December 2008/January 2009 to find out how far UHRA was embedded in the University (Appendix 4). Of the 80 respondents 84% had heard of the archive, so there are still some areas of the institution we have yet to reach with our promotional work. Only 21% had self-archived, with the majority of authors relying on the Project Officer to discover and deposit their publications. A rolling programme of training sessions has been arranged through the UH People Development Unit with supporting materials, help sheets, instructions and exercises. (sample Appendix 11) The Project Officer has sent contributions on publisher policies to the ROMEO database. The whole team have attended a variety of UKCoRR/RSP events to keep up to date on repository matters, with

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the Project Manager presenting at the RSP Event in Farnham in November 2007. Project staff continue to attend JISC events to network with other repository staff and keep abreast of developments with practice and standards. A brief report on „Emerging Standards for Institutional Repositories‟ was completed in February 2008. (Appendix 9) A mandate has been agreed in principle by the Research Committee but has not yet been brought into practice.

Outcomes The UHRA is a successful institutional repository which has enhanced public open access to UH research print outputs and is working towards the inclusion of non-print formats. The Project Team are aware that there are still further developments and improvements that can be made and the achievements of the project stage can be built on to deliver an excellent resource for UH research staff. Embedding self-archiving has been a much slower process than envisaged but the numbers of self-archivers is growing as the UHRA demonstrates its value. The Project Team have participated in the JISC-funded network of digital repositories by attending events, sharing methods tried and lessons learned with repository staff from other institutions. It is hoped that similar support events can continue post JISC-funding. The Project Officer role has been extended beyond the end of the project.

Conclusions The methodology of targeting a (self-selecting) group of early adopters worked very well for the project. The Project Team has to be prepared to talk and sell UHRA (often repeatedly) at every opportunity.

Implications UH Research Committee and Programme Board are investigating ways to ensure the future development of the repository by looking at how archiving in the UHRA can be built into the research lifecycle. They are also wanting to extend the range of materials to include non-print formats and work in progress. A demonstration of Symplectic was organised with a view to not only being more efficiently organised for the Research Excellence Framework but also to feeding new documents into the UHRA. The more UH research is promoted and discovered through Google and other commonly used search tools, the more likely it is that UH research outputs published in recognised journals will be consulted and the more likely it is that UH research will be then be cited. The UHRA is vital to this promotion and world-wide discovery. The Project Officer role has been extended beyond the end of the project phase.

References Version Identification Framework http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/vif Names project website http://names.mimas.ac.uk/

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APPENDICES Appendix 1

Summary

Total records: 2,622

Data first collected: 2006-09-19 (3 records)

Data last collected: 2009-02-08 (2,622 records)

Number of weeks data collected: 125

Average record increase per week: 20.95 (2,619 added records divided by 125 weeks)

(Statistics provided by Chris Keene)

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Appendix 2 Top 20 viewed/downloaded items (Jan 09):

Item/Handle Number of

views

The strange case of the Turkish and Venetian judges in eighteenth-century Mani wall paintings (Chapman, John) (2299/105)

860

Begging on the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London (Hitchcock, T.) (2299/33) 820

Measurement of Satisfaction with Health Care: implications for practice from a systematic review of the literature (Crow, H. et al) (2299/1073)

648

Developing Practice in Radiography and Diagnostic Imaging (Price, Richard) (2299/1056)

602

Gender-based retail bank choice decisions in Nigeria. (Omar, O.E.) (2299/744) 472

An ideal solution to the problems of consciousness. (Hutto, D.) (2299/537) 408

Turning Hard Problems on Their Heads (Hutto, D.) (2299/534) 403

Tissue Repair: The Current State of the Art (Watson, T.) (2299/1085) 388

Tales from the Hanging Court (Hitchcock, T. et al) (2299/104) 379

Attachment Security, Self-Concept Clarity and Beliefs in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (May, Elizabeth) (2299/853)

378

Digitising History from below: The Old Bailey Proceedings Online (Hitchcock, T.) (2299/38)

370

Consciousness demystified. (Hutto, D.) (2299/538) 370

Visual similarity is greater for line drawings of nonliving than living things: The importance of musical instruments and body-parts (Laws, K.R. et al) (2299/659)

355

Smokable ( ice , crystal meth ) and non smokable amphetamine-type stimulants: clinical pharmacological and epidemiological issues, with special reference to the UK. (Schifano, F. et al) (2299/909)

352

Evidence of European IFRS Adoption: The effect on goodwill and intangible assets.-- (Hamberg, M. et al) (2299/685)

341

An exploratory analysis of E-HRM in the context of HRM transformation'. (Foster, S.) (2299/1405)

302

Mentally Disordered Offenders: Challenges in using the OASys risk assessment tool (Fitzgibbon, D.W.M. et al) (2299/876)

291

A New History From Below (Hitchcock, T.) (2299/34) 290

12-Lead ECG training: The way forward. (Alinier, G. et al) (2299/395) 279

Nursing students' and academics' perspective of OSCE incorporating simulation (Alinier, G.) (2299/393)

279

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Appendix 3

Report on collection size February 2009 Research Institute

Research Area /Centre

Sub Area Collection

HHSRI HHSRI Research Centres

Centre for Lifespan and Chronic Illness Research (CLiCIR)

3

HHSRI HHSRI Research Centres

CRIPACC Centre for Research in Primary & Community Care

52

HHSRI Life Sciences Life Sciences 82

HHSRI Medicine Paramedic Science, Physiotherapy and Radiography

20

HHSRI Medicine Postgraduate Medical School 1

HHSRI Nursing Nursing & Midwifery 31

HHSRI Pharmacy Pharmacy 33

HHSRI Psychology Applied Cognition and Behavioural Sciences

30

HHSRI Psychology Memory, Development and Language

49

HHSRI Psychology Neuroscience and Psychopathology 53

HHSRI Social and Community

Centre for Community Research 0

HHSRI Social and Community

Counselling & Arts Therapy 9

HHSRI Social and Community

Social Work & Community Research 10

373

SSAHRI Business Business School - Management Science and Statistics

25

SSAHRI Business Business School - Marketing 15

SSAHRI Business Business School Working Papers 84

SSAHRI Business Centre for Research in Employment Studies

20

SSAHRI Business Centre for Research in Finance and Accounting

9

SSAHRI Business Centre for Research in Institutional Economics

22

SSAHRI Business Complexity and Management Centre 9

SSAHRI Creative Arts Centre for Research in Electronic Art & Communication

4

SSAHRI Creative Arts Music Group 6

SSAHRI Creative Arts theorising Visual Art and Design 22

SSAHRI Education Education Group Publications 22

SSAHRI Education Learning and Teaching Institute 52

SSAHRI English Language and Literature

English Literature Group 44

SSAHRI English Language and Literature

Linguistics Group 8

SSAHRI History History Group 32

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(including Law)

SSAHRI History (including Law)

Law Group 18

SSAHRI Mass Media Communications Humanities

Mass Media Communications 0

SSAHRI Philosophy Philosophy Group 69

461

STRI CAIR Atmospheric Dynamics & Air Quality

37

STRI CAIR Light Scattering & Radiative Processes

24

STRI CAIR Particle Instruments & Diagnostics 11

STRI CAR Astrophysics 180

STRI CAR Extragalactic Astronomy 464

STRI CAR Galactic Astronomy 408

STRI CAR Instrumentation 0

STRI CCSIR Algorithms Algorithms 53

STRI CCSIR Algorithms Computer Architecture & Digital Media Proc.

74

STRI CCSIR Algorithms Optical Networks 17

STRI CCSIR Algorithms Quantum Informatics & Physics 21

STRI CCSIR Biological & Neural Computation

Biocomputation 31

STRI CCSIR Biological & Neural Computation

Neural Computation 114

STRI CCSIR Systems Engineering

Adaptive Systems 154

STRI CCSIR Systems Engineering

Systems and Software 70

STRI CEASR Agriculture & Environment Research Unit

4

STRI CEASR Condition Monitoring and Asset Management

10

STRI CEASR Engineering Management 3

STRI CEASR Fluid Mechanics 4

STRI CEASR Materials & Structures 8

STRI CEASR Microfluidics & Microengineering 2

STRI CEASR Radio & Mobile Communication Networks

6

STRI CFO Fundamental Optics 7

1702

THESES Theses Collection 59

2595

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Appendix 4

UHRA Survey

1. Have you heard about the University of Hertfordshire Research Archive?

Yes:

83.8% 67

No:

16.2% 13

1.a. If 'yes' who from?

Presentations by UHRA project team:

n/a 23

Training sessions by UHRA project team:

n/a 15

Line manager:

n/a 10

Colleagues:

n/a 24

Other (please specify): * n/a 24

* most of these were actually contact from the UHRA Project Team

2. What kind(s) of work do you produce? (We are also interested in non-print formats - please list under 'other')

Journal articles:

n/a 67

Conference papers:

n/a 67

Books:

n/a 23

Book chapters:

n/a 42

Other (please specify):

n/a 22

3. Is any of your work currently available online? If so, where?

Not available online:

18.8% 15

On a personal website:

2.5% 2

On a university website:

2.5% 2

In online journals:

26.2% 21

In UHRA:

16.2% 13

In subject repositories, eg. Arxiv, REPEC etc:

2.5% 2

Other (please specify):

31.2% 25

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4. Have you self-archived any of your papers in the UHRA?

Yes:

21.2% 17

No:

78.8% 63

4.a. What problems, if any, have you experienced when self-archiving your work in UHRA?

No problems:

n/a 6

Too time consuming:

n/a 1

Not sure what all the metadata/catalogue

fields refer to:

n/a 1

I didn't have all the information it asked for:

n/a 0

Understanding copyright policies:

n/a 3

I didn't have a copy of my work in an

appropriate format:

n/a 1

Uploading files was difficult:

n/a 0

Other (please specify):

n/a 8

5. What reservations, if any, do you have about putting your work in UHRA?

No reservations:

n/a 30

Lack of time:

n/a 27

Uncertainties about copyright:

n/a 24

Uncertainty about how my work might be used by

others:

n/a 13

Lack of control over the design and content of the

rest of the website:

n/a 5

I don't have the technical skills to do it:

n/a 13

I don't have digital versions of my work:

n/a 9

Other (please specify):

n/a 19

6. When adding details of your work into UHRA what additional information, if any, would help you describe it more effectively?

View All Responses- There are too many responses to display on this page.

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7. Here is a list of potential benefits of having your work in an online repository. For each one, please indicate how important it is to you personally.

7.a. Making individual works more visible to a wider audience

Very important:

66.7% 52

Fairly important:

26.9% 21

Not very important:

2.6% 2

Not at all important:

3.8% 3

7.b. Showcasing the research carried out at my institution

Very important:

57.7% 45

Fairly important:

32.1% 25

Not very important:

6.4% 5

Not at all important:

3.8% 3

7.c. Raising my research profile

Very important:

58.2% 46

Fairly important:

31.6% 25

Not very important:

3.8% 3

Not at all important:

6.3% 5

7.d. Enabling me to track my own research development

Very important:

19.5% 15

Fairly important:

19.5% 15

Not very important:

39.0% 30

Not at all important:

22.1% 17

7.e. Increasing potential work or exhibition opportunities

Very important:

31.2% 24

Fairly important:

37.7% 29

Not very important:

23.4% 18

Not at all important:

7.8% 6

7.f. Helping me to re-use my research for teaching purposes

Very important:

17.9% 14

Fairly important:

34.6% 27

Not very important:

32.1% 25

Not at all important:

15.4% 12

7.g. Good way to store/preserve my work

Very important:

26.6% 21

Fairly important:

36.7% 29

Not very important:

19.0% 15

Not at all important:

17.7% 14

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8. Which of these features would you like UHRA to be able to offer you?

A direct link from your web profile:

n/a 54

Statistics showing how many times your work

has been viewed:

n/a 60

Co-ordination with your teaching materials in

Studynet ?:

n/a 19

Links between different versions or performances

of a work:

n/a 7

Other (please specify):

n/a 11

9. Which school or department are you part of?

View All Responses- There are too many responses to display on this page.

10. Which research centre (if any) are you a member of?

View All Responses- There are too many responses to display on this page.

11. Which of the following best describes your role?

Professor:

13.7% 10

Reader:

9.6% 7

Research fellow:

13.7% 10

Research assistant:

1.4% 1

Research student:

6.8% 5

Other (please specify):

54.8% 40

12. Is there any way that UHRA could be improved to make it a useful archive for your purposes? Any other comments?

View All Responses- There are too many responses to display on this page.

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Appendix 5

University of Hertfordshire Research Archive

https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/

My name is Gill Hall and I am employed as UHRA Project Officer and my role is to help you place your published articles in the archive. My aim is to get as much retrospective work archived as possible and to help authors to self-archive in the future. If you search for your name under „authors‟ in UHRA you will see what has already been included for you. What is UHRA ? Open to the world online as an „Open Access‟ archive allowing anyone who uses the Internet to read and download UH research. The archive contains only material that has been published through the normal scholarly channels.

UHRA provides a simple interface to enable researchers to self-archive the full text of their published work with just a few quick and easy steps. Guidance is available on StudyNet at: http://www.studynet2.herts.ac.uk/ptl/common/lis.nsf/lis/IntroductiontoUHRA

Key Benefits

promote and showcase research at the University

provide wider dissemination of research with greater visibility and recognition for individuals

make your publications easier to find on Google and other major search engines

assist in increasing citation rates of published work

provide a robust archive with permanent URLs for linking to the complete work not just the citation

provide download counts and statistics on usage

Publishers & Copyright 97% of publishers allow some form of archiving. If I contact you for electronic copies of your articles I have already checked that I have clearance to archive them. (If you don‟t have electronic copies available please let me know). They are loaded in PDF format. A few publishers will let us use the final published version in the archive – mostly they will let us use a „preprint‟ or a „postprint‟ (final draft post-refereeing). It is a good idea to get into the practice of keeping electronic drafts of the various stages of your article on file so that the latest possible version can be archived. Read any Copyright Transfer Agreement carefully for what rights the publisher gives you for archiving your article. A change in wording or a Licence to Publish can be suggested as an alternative.

I am happy to help with any queries, advice or assistance you need – please contact me. Gill Hall (UHRA Project Officer) Ext 5027 [email protected]

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Appendix 6 e-clips newsletter July 2008 (UH e newsletter)

> Publications and Research

• Hooray for UHRA University of Hertfordshire Research Archive celebrates its 2000th research publication! Monica Rivers-Latham and Gill Hall in the LIS have been working with our Researchers to help them place their published articles on the online archive database. Universities such as Imperial College, Edinburgh and Nottingham, are still to reach such a significant milestone, despite the fact some have been working on getting content into their own institutional research archives since 2003-2005! If you would like to get involved please contact Gill Hall for advice or assistance on Ext 5027.

sample articles from ‘Information’ (UH LIS publication) Spring 2008

1,500 and counting UH Research Archive's a big hit with readers across the world Clinical excellence meets information excellence The snappily titled UHRA (just don't try and pronounce it) or the UH Research Archive (as it's spoken) has just celebrated its 1000th entry and is fast catching up the big league research universities. In fact of the UK's higher education digital archives, ours, with over 1500 entries, is now one of the largest which is completely open to view and download. Others are bigger but put restrictions on what you can or can't see - whereas at UH we've decided to focus on archive research material which is cleared for copyright and can be seen and downloaded as a pdf. The 1000th entry onto the archive was from Uta Fritze in Astrophysics 'Star formation in violent and normal evolutionary phases' But what's in the archive? Well you name it…UH's research community is remarkably diverse and there are dozens of named research centres ranging from Microfluidics & Microengineering to Theorising Visual Art & Design and from Light Scattering and Radiative Processes to English Literature Group. The centre topping the league for numbers of inputs to the archive is Extragalactic Astronomy with over 300 postings.

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We can measure the number of views, or hits on the archive and we'll soon be able to analyse exactly who is hitting the papers in UHRA. And there's another challenge the archive faces. How to archive some of the more, how can we say, text-less output from this University? We have leading musicians, sculptors, painters, animators, graphic novelists and performance artists. But actually representing their research outputs could be slightly tricky. The top 20 hits on the archive's documents shows off the wide diversity of UH's research. UH's number one researcher, as measured by UHRA visits is Prof. Tim Hitchcock, whose work on eighteenth century London is world famous. His “Begging on the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London” tops the hit chart with (at last look over 700 views). There's a surprise at number two with Learning & Information Services very own John Chapman's “The Strange Case of the Turkish and Venetian Judges in eighteenth-century Mani wall paintings” racking up an impressive 490 hits. As John sits in the same room as Gill Hall and Monica Rivers-Latham who run the UHRA there is the possibility that some 30 or so of his hits are generated by Monica and Gill using his Archive entry for demos to other academic staff. Tim Hitchcock, with his street tales from Olde London dominates the top five but a selection of our top research hits is in the box. Apart from making our research available to the world it also gives a high profile to the individuals and thus the University. The fact that Google will highlight these and publicise them boosts the researchers' contacts and external linked pages. For example Southampton University, which has been assiduously putting all their research online now has a better web presence than such institutions as Yale. And researchers soon find that the world is aware of them - and often beating an electronic path to them. Two of the top 20 hits are UH doctoral theses. In fact project head Dave Piper received a message from an enthusiastic e-mailer in the US who wrote 'Man this archive ROCKS!!!' To learn more about the Archive contact Gill Hall on [email protected]

January 2009

Archive maximises exposure for UH researchers When The Information gave Professor Andrew Starr a list of his research papers in the UH Research Archive which demonstrated that his School had

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had over 350 downloads he was absolutely amazed. Andrew came to us from Manchester University just over a year ago to become Head of the School of Aerospace, Automotive & Design Engineering. At Manchester, like many academics there, he used his personal University webpage as his ‘shopwindow’ for his research. When he moved to UH he found a better solution - the UH Research Archive. UHRA is an open electronic archive which is automatically ‘harvested’ by Google and as a result Andrew gets those hundreds of hits on his research leading to additional citations of his publications.

Andrew attended one of Gill Hall and Monica Rivers-Latham‟s UH Research Archive presentations and was sold on the idea. As he commented, “Gill and Monica were not just enthusiastic but doing something.” The UHRA now has the full text of over 2500 papers and theses and is one of the most dynamic research archives in the UK. “There‟s usually a short half-life for the exposure of research and UHRA is really helping in this game by stretching this out” – and Andrew was particularly pleased that some of his older publications were attracting as many hits as the more recent ones. Like many academic researchers Andrew is regularly contacted by people interested in getting hold of his research, in his case it's his research into condition monitoring – that‟s preventing machines from breaking down by measuring their health and managing system degradation. “The trouble is I really don‟t have time to respond and there is little time for favours. UHRA really helps here because the other party can just download the document.” And this can provide spin-offs – Andrew has recently received a request from an Indian university press to reprint one of his articles in a book. As he wrote in an email to Gill, „I‟m impressed. UHRA really works!‟ Andrew encourages all his research staff to register their work with UHRA and sends Gill his annual research report so that she can check it out for suitable material to be added to the archive. The other benefit as far as Andrew is concerned is that UHRA doesn‟t just reach his academic peers. As he says with a grin, “The other great thing about UHRA is that it gets research out to people who don‟t work in academia and can‟t access expensive journals – in some ways this is delightfully subversive!” Anyone interested in UHRA should contact Gill Hall [email protected] or Jane Bilson [email protected] (Monica Rivers-Latham is on maternity leave.)

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Appendix 7 Publisher Address Date Dear Sir/Madam RE: Submission of published articles to the UH Research Archive I am contacting you in order to request permission to post electronic versions of various journal articles in the University of Hertfordshire Research Archive for the purposes of education and research. The relevant articles were authored by University of Hertfordshire staff and have previously been published by yourselves under agreement. The UH Research Archive is the institutional repository of the University of Hertfordshire formulated to preserve its intellectual output. This request is for one time, non-exclusive use in the UH Research Archive only. All users of the UH Research Archive would be bound by the terms and conditions of use, which require users to respect intellectual property rights. If you would like a copyright notice or a hyperlink to your website to be included, please could you specify. We are currently in the process of clearing requests to post multiple articles to place in our Research Archive, and would appreciate your co-operation by granting permission to post any articles written by current University of Hertfordshire staff which you have published. If this is not possible, details of this specific request are included below. Please do not hesitate to contact me for further information. Thank you for your assistance in this matter. Yours sincerely Gill Hall UHRA Project Officer – LIS [email protected] University of Hertfordshire 01707 284725 I agree to grant permission for one-time, non-exclusive use of the following material in the University of Hertfordshire Research Archive Signed ____________________________________ Date __________________

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I agree to grant permission for one-time, non-exclusive use of any material authored by a current member of University of Hertfordshire and previously published by [Publishers] in the University of Hertfordshire Research Archive. Signed ____________________________________ Date __________________

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Appendix 8 UHRA Progress Report 13 (example) Journal articles & conf papers (status):- 29/2/08 28/3/08 28/4/08 On UHRA 1517 1631 1745 Ready for UHRA 4 8 14 Email sent (PDFs) 8 7 5 Email for permission (PDFs) 3 2 2 Preprint requested 686 676 730 Email for preprint 384 334 107 Preprint not available 132 205 325 In progress 689 689 687 Not allowed 142 142 143 Total 3565 3694 3758 ……………………………………………………………………………………............................ ……………………………………………………………………………………............................ Leaflet – now arrived. MRL& GH had given presentations to Life Sciences and the Business School. STRI lunchtime session due on 15

th May. Psychology tba.

1

st meeting of Programme Board held 10/4

Training sessions – 4 dates arranged via PDU for CL and DH between June and August GH attended VIF (Versions) workshop 22/4. Gh 28.4.08

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Appendix 9

UHRA project report for JISC Emerging Standards for Institutional Repositories 1. Author names The importance of standardisation of author names was recognised early in the project and that some kind of authority file/checking would be necessary. The Project Officer currently manually checks authors names but as the archive grows this will become difficult to maintain. It is relatively easy to standardise author names within an institution while one person is depositing publications but self-archiving will need a device to ensure that authors always use the same name format. The Project Team are investigating the possibility of drop down lists or auto-complete for UH authors. Papers are often written by authors from a variety of institutions (and countries) and academics also move between institutions during their working life. It is essential to be able to uniquely identify individuals and institutions. A researcher needs to know that the author they are searching for is the one they want and that they find all of an author‟s publications. It is also necessary to unambiguously identify authors within the system to enable analysis of the citation impact of their articles. In addition UH has signed up to the EThOS project and will need to ensure that metadata transferred between the British Library and the university is consistent, this also ties in with author names data. The Project Team is following the progress of the JISC Names Project and will be interested to hear about possible participation in trials. 2. Subject keywords The Project Team have considered the use of subject keywords in the submission process to DSpace as some projects are developing or using disciplined based thesauri. However the following statement comes from the DSpace help information, „word(s) entered in the DSpace search box will be searched against the title, author, subject abstract, series etc so keywords do not need to be used which duplicate these terms’. The team felt that it was not necessary to pursue a subject keyword thesaurus or control the use of keywords at this point in the project. 3. Quality control specific to UHRA project

3.1 Database synchronization

The project uses a basic Lotus Notes database to help manage the complexity and

delays inherent in encouraging researchers to use a facilitated deposit service

provided by the Project Officer. The database is used to manage the various processes

and workflows where we need to contact or chase the author - setting flags on various

statuses of actions - and to store the electronic copy of the article as well as to edit

and update bibliographic data. When we have the finalised data and an electronic

copy of the article has been obtained the status flag is set to 'ready' and another

process uploads it to the UHRA overnight. The Project Officer keeps a daily watching

brief between the workflow database and UHRA to ensure consistency of data and to

confirm data upload has been successful. The Project Team are now investigating

ways that this cross-check might be automated by writing some script in order to run a

programme. The Project Officer will then be given access to UHRA server in order to

run reports as necessary.

3.2 Workflow for self-archiving, UHRA self-archiving process has no workflow checks in order to reduce barriers for authors who are reluctant to deposit their own publications. Our decision not to put any checks in place was based on the reality of the situation where research administrators in departments

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perceived this as extra work and were not easily engaged. We needed to think about the long term sustainability of the archive, especially with the absence of any long term staffing resources after the end of the project. Whilst our workflow database is in use the Project Officer is effectively doing a manual check of the data and also editing any records that have been independently deposited by authors onto UHRA to maintain consistency. It is questionable how this might be maintained as self-archiving activity increases. 3.3 Full publication citation in one DDC element field UHRA has adopted the pure Open Access route. It is a full-text repository (no metadata only records) where articles must be previously published. All items in the archive will therefore have a complete citation. Discussions have centred around the number of data elements that need to be filled in on the DSpace submission form as a potential barrier to author self-archiving. It was felt that data entry should be kept to a minimum. Contrary to other IR projects we made the decision to have a DDC element field for the entire citation, to enable simple cut and paste actions by the person doing the self-archiving. Our rationale was that the complete citation could easily be searched using Google.

4. Versions The version of paper deposited in the archive depends on publisher permissions and the availability of an electronic version from the author. The record does not currently state whether the attached article is preprint, postprint or final version – but there is always a link to the final published version. The team are looking at ways of versioning deposited articles in their records. We are currently importing arXiv records into UHRA where we can do so independently from the author, and we intend on investigating the possibility of doing something similar with other subject based repositories. Imported records are marked up as being from arXiv and this has raised the question of our own branding or watermarking to identify UHRA records. Watermarking would involve an intervention by a member of the project team in order to PDF publication files. The simplicity of the self-archiving process does not support this, particularly if files need to be sent by the author to the project team and back again. We do not have the technical expertise or staff resources to find out if DSpace has the capabilities to do the watermarking for us as part of the submission process. The Project Team is aware that the Version Identification Framework is working on providing a common infrastructure and is due to report in April 2008. We will be interested to see the outcome from this work. 6. External interface

6.1 Compatibility with EThOS project UHRA can comply with the minimum requirements for the EThOS project

We expose the following metadata fields for harvesting:

• Author

• Title

• Awarding institution

• Qualification level (the EThOS system is for doctoral theses)

• Date of award.

However, the Project Team acknowledges that we need to do some work on the DSpace OAI

Crosswalk plug-in that is available in order to automatically expose the theses metadata in

UKETD_DC format.

6.2 Compatibility with other repository search interfaces

DRIVER project guidelines have been developed to ensure repositories like UHRA expose

content and metadata in a standard way. We need to be sure that we comply with initiatives

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such as this so that UH research output can be made available as widely as possible. The

test bed phase of DRIVER focused on textual resources that can be harvested with OAI-

PMH. The ability to retrieve full-text along with the bibliographic data already makes UHRA

more DRIVER friendly that other repositories with metadata only records. Further guidelines

from DRIVER should be able to offer advice with respect to multimedia, which we hope to

broaden our content to include in the future. Driver project hopes to offer a way to check

degree of conformance via a web interface. If the mandatory characteristics of the guidelines

are met we can receive the status of being validated DRIVER provider and become part of

the network of DRIVER content providers

MRL/GH 12/02/08

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Appendix 10 leaflet cover

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Leaflet inner

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Appendix 11 Sample StudyNet page

Welcome to UHRA

Frequently Asked Questions Registering with UHRA

Contact information Before you start

Dictionary of terms Submitting a published paper to UHRA

Copyright, rights and permissions Are you about to publish a paper ?

What is University of Hertfordshire Research Archive ?

An institutional repository of UH research publications.

UH Research Committee has agreed arrangements for setting up a digital archive of UH

research called University of Hertfordshire Research Archive (UHRA). Many universities in

the UK, USA and around the world have already set up their own research repository similar

to UHRA. Now UH researchers can benefit form this initiative to disseminate and showcase

their research output more widely.

UHRA is open to the world on-line as an 'Open Access' collection of research. As it is

publicly accessible it will permit anyone who searches on the Internet to read, download and

use material for private study or their own research purposes. Researchers are expected to

self-archive their publications using a straightforward submission process. The archive

contains only material that has already been published through the normal scholarly channels.

Link to UHRA

Benefits of UHRA

The UHRA is intended to enhance the University's research profile. It will:

promote and showcase research across the University

provide wider dissemination of research with greater visibility and recognition for you

make it much easier for Google and other major search engines to discover your work

assist in increasing citation rates for your work

provide a robust archive with permanent URLs for individual items

provide download counts and other statistics on usage