White Rose Research Online
- What is White Rose Research Online?
- How can I submit my papers?
- What are the benefits of the repository?
- How can I get more information?
What is White Rose Research Online?
White Rose Research Online - the Universities of York, Sheffield and Leeds - has created a shared institutional repository. At the moment, the repository houses peer-reviewed, published papers from many academics across the three Universities and from a variety of different subject disciplines.
How can I submit my papers?
Academics are welcome to register on the repository and submit their papers, although it is strongly recommended that they contact the Project Officer first to check the copyright position of the papers which they wish to include. To register, go to White Rose Research Online and click on the "Register" button
Any academic who is interested in having papers added to the repository can also take advantage of the mediated upload service being offered at least until November 2007. In this case, the inputting and checking will be done by the Repository Officer.
What are the benefits of the repository?
- The development of institutional repositories is supported by UUK and RCUK. Several research funders support open access and deposit in a repository may help to fulfil your funder's requirements
- RCUK position on issue of improved access to research outputs
- For further details see the JULIET Service at SHERPA
- Many academics already include either publication lists or, in some cases, links to full text of articles from their individual websites. The repository enhances this type of activity by:
- providing a long-term store for articles
- making articles more visible to the outside world by conforming to the Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
- providing a stable URL for the full text of articles
- There is increasing evidence that papers placed on open access are cited more frequently
- Do Open Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? (Antelman 2004)
- Open Citation Project's bibliography on The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact
- The White Rose repository is well used: see the access statistics page
How can I get more information?
The Project Officer, Rachel Proudfoot, works for all three Universities and can be contacted via email.
Departments who would like more information or a demonstration of the repository are invited to contact Rachel or their Academic Liaison Librarian.
