Open Access
Local Integration, National
Federation
TCD-RSS, TARA, IReL-Open,
Expertise Ireland
Niamh Brennan
Trinity College Dublin
DRIVER Summit, Goettingen,
January 17th 2008
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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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Peoplefinder /
Web /
College Systems
Research
Support
System
Expertise
Ireland
E-publishing,
Digitisation
Projects, etc
Repository
WEB
TCD Research Support System
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Bibliographic records from ISI:
- Integrated with ISI institutional Citation Report for TCD
- By agreement with ISI
- Specifically requested by researchers
Processes: TARA
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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
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TCD Institutional Repository - in an Integrated Environment
Library
Institutional
Repository
Web Services
Research Support System
• Bibliographic metadata
(inc. ISI)
• Research Expertise
• Project tracking
Physical
Resources
FTP server
DMZ
DMZ
Web server
External Bodies
• The web /
•Search engines etc.
• OAI harvesters
Human
Resources
External Bodies
External Bodies
• Thesis Print-Shop
• expertiseireland.com
• Portal Reviewers
Financials
Student
Administration
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
http://www.irel-open.ie
IReL-Open Initiative
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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: National Research Portal
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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/
The Benefits to the Researcher
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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.
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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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DRIVER
January 2008
Open Access
Niamh Brennan
Trinity College Dublin
Phone:
Email:
+353 1 896 1646
niamh.brennan@tcd.ie