We are just in the second stage of the transition for the ECS repository – all the data has been copied across to the main Southampton Institutional Repository, all the ECS repository URLs now redirect there as well, and we are in the middle of data re…
The following articles were authored by Leslie Carr
In the lunch break at SPARC 2012 today our table was discussing the negotiation of author rights for repository deposits. In lamenting how authors tend to be backed into a corner by the publisher’s last-minute demands to sign the copyright transfer for…
I’m at the SPARC2012 Open Access conference, and all this talk about Open Access is reminding me that the issue of scholarly publishing is actually very straightforward.Publishing companies have a very simple business model – they take authors’ article…
In the last six months since I analysed Mendeley’s contribution to Computer Science OA in June 2011, they appear to have increased their membership of that community by 37% and the ratio of full text documents to community members has increased fr…
I used to be a perfectly good computer scientist, but now I’ve been ruined by sociologists. Or at least that is what Professor Catherine Pope (the Marxist feminist health scientist who co-directs the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre with me) says. …
A number of our Web Science students are doing work analysing people’s use of Twitter, and the tools available for them to do so are rather limited since Twitter changed the terms of their service so that the functionality of TwapperKeeper and similar …
Having talked about Mendeley’s OA deposit rates in my last blog post, I thought it worthwhile to check how representative my chosen discipline (Computer Science) was. Rather than download the entire community for each other discipline, I have performed…
There was a lot of talk about Mendeley at OAI7 in Geneva, especially the news that in the first quarter of 2011 the number of articles downloaded for free jumped from 300,000 to 800,000. That’s really good news, confirming Mendeley as a successful serv…
I’m always on the lookout for engaging UI paradigms to inspire repository design, and I recently noticed that Blogger has made some new “dynamic views” available. It provides a variety of smart presentation styles aren’t a million miles away from the o…
While looking at the impact of mobile devices on the development of the Web I found useful information in this March 2011 press release from web analytics company StatCounter, charting the rise of Android.StatCounter data also pinpoints the rise and ri…
The F1000 Open Access Poster Repository was brought to my attention by a recent Tweet. I love repositories with posters in – they’re copyright-lite and very visually attractive – and I’ve long advocated for more use to be made of these kinds of scholar…
According to the Times Higher, Michael Mabe (chief executive of the International Association of Scientific, Medical and Technical Publishers and a visiting professor in information science at University College London) fears that repositories are esse…
Houston, we have a problem. It turns out that trusting repositories as authoritative sources of research information is all very well and good, except when the repository is an authoritative source of demonstration (fake) documents. Sebastien Francois …
In recent news, Google has altered its ranking algorithms to favour sites with original material rather than so-called content farms that simply redistribute material found on other sites. Although users report satisfaction with improved results, this …
In my previous posting I proposed the idea of the 5 stars of open access. There is of course one feature that the original “taxonomy” misses out completely – repositories! Not just “my favourite repository platform”, but the idea of persistent, curated…
