ePrints News and Status
Monday 17 October 2011-10-17
This is Open Access Week
The Open Access movement encourages free and immediate availability on the Internet of research and scholarship results and outputs, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need. It has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted.
This lovely little 3 min video conversation between an academic and a publisher explains the reason why open access is important!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIY_4t-DR0&feature=youtu.be
USQ encourages open access, by encouraging academics to deposit into USQ ePrints the final, corrected pre-publication version of journal and conference papers, as well as the final published and formatted version that is required for HERDC and ERA reporting.
For more information about Open Access, go to the Open Access FAQ on USQ ePrints.
Author Browse changes
In preparation for ERA, the names of authors will need to change from a single standardised form of each author to various forms as they are used in published articles. This will (unfortunately) mean that the Current Author Browse list (http://eprints.usq.edu.au/view/people/) will increasingly show multiple versions of your name. In the future (next year or so) the ePrints team will be creating search functions that will be a lot smarter than at present – but until then, the browse list will be more difficult for you to use. The ePrints team apologise for this, and hope that you will bear with us as we work on the ERA submission for USQ.
Welcome to the new Research Librarian
The Library is delighted to welcome Pat Loria as Research Librarian. Some of you will have already met Pat, and he has plans to meet many more as soon as he is able.
Pat’s role will revolve around three areas:
• To provide training and support for the Faculty Librarians, so they can provide best practice research support to their various faculties. This will include areas such as advanced information literacy skills; maximising publication strategy; and increasing research impact.
• To work with the Office of Research to encourage a comprehensive reporting of research outputs into ePrints, to maximise research visibility and reportability.
• And to work with systems staff to develop a “one-stop” user interface for managing and reporting research impacts.
Pat hopes to collaborate closely with research administration staff and ADRs to support the university’s strategic goal of increasing its research profile and impact, from an information science perspective.
Pat can be contacted at pat.loria@usq.edu.au or on extension 1778.
ERA Preparation!
ERA preparation is ramping up.
Are all your publications published between 2005 and 2010 in USQ ePrints???
During November all academics who were on the Unviersity Staff as at 31 March 2011 will be requested to check that their publications between 2005 and 2010 have been captured by ePrints. IF not, you are encouraged to add them or to contact ePrints about any gaps.
There will be an information session in early November. Watch out for news of this from the Director of the Office of Research and Higher Degrees
News and Help
We currently have over 7650 items in USQ ePrints, many of which have an author post-print or a publisher version available for viewing or downloading. However, an increasing number of the actual papers cannot be publicly available, due to copyright restrictions of publishers.
The USQ ePrints Quick Guide for Depositors (PDF 229KB) is available. Suggestions for inclusions and other changes to content are most welcome.
Contact the ePrints Editor, if you have comments or suggestions or need help in registering or depositing.