Neil Stewart London School of Economics Political Science

Neil Stewart London School of Economics & Political Science n. stewart@lse. ac. uk LSE Research Online: the basics • LSE’s researchive • Contains articles, book chapters, working papers, conference papers, datasets • Service receives around 50, 000 hits a month • 3 goals for the repository: – Open Access model of scholarly communications – A record of the School’s research – Linking to other services

Neil Stewart London School of Economics & Political Science n. stewart@lse. ac. uk Open Access • Making LSE’s research freely available via the web • Bypassing the “traditional” model of scholarly publishing • Over 4, 000 full text items made available • Relies on academic colleagues providing us with the content

Neil Stewart London School of Economics & Political Science n. stewart@lse. ac. uk Recording the School’s research • We aim to get “all” LSE research into LSERO • Though we haven’t managed that, we do pretty well: over 21, 000 citations in LSERO, and growing • No mandate to deposit research at LSE • LSERO likely to be used for the Research Excellence Framework

Neil Stewart London School of Economics & Political Science n. stewart@lse. ac. uk Linking with other services LSERO can generate RSS feeds of publications for use in any webpage, and can export lists of citations, but it also links up with specific services: • Experts Directory • Economists Online • OAISTER • Google Scholar Link with Re. PEc in the pipeline!

Neil Stewart London School of Economics & Political Science n. stewart@lse. ac. uk Open Access: worth the effort! • LSERO sees hundreds of full text papers downloaded a day • We see hits and downloads from across the worldin the last month, 189 countries/ territories • These hits & downloads translate into increased research dissemination and impact • There is a proven “OA advantage” showing that OA research is cited more, as well as a literature examining this!

Neil Stewart London School of Economics & Political Science n. stewart@lse. ac. uk Academics’ responses “The LSE Research Online team is great at working with academics, and this really helps me disseminate my research” Sonia Livingstone, head of Department of Media & Communications, LSE • Benefits academics mention: dissemination of research (particularly via Experts profiles); making things openly accessible outside the School/ UKHE/ the Western world; copyright & QA assurance; preservation of research outputs.

Neil Stewart London School of Economics & Political Science n. stewart@lse. ac. uk The future of OA & repositories • OA is going to become more prevalent, publishers (slowly) adjusting to the new realities • Repositories as “trusted sources” for info about an institution’s research, as well as for versions of papers themselves • More integration of services, reuse of data (e. g. Economists Online) • Hybrid green/ gold OA model? • Funders to provide more leverage?

Neil Stewart London School of Economics & Political Science n. stewart@lse. ac. uk Thanks for listening! LSE Research Online: http: //eprints. lse. ac. uk/ LSE Experts Directory: http: //www 2. lse. ac. uk/research. And. Expertise /Experts/Home. aspx Economists Online: http: //www. economistsonline. org/home#