Open Access, RIMS and persistent identifiers

A presentation given by Jonathan Breeze, Symplectic at eResearch Australasia 2015 in Brisbane, Oct 2015.

 

Abstract: As funder and institutional open access policies start to take hold, researchers are increasingly being asked to engage with institutional repositories to share their work.

Often seen as an unnecessary administrative burden, the submission of full-text articles to institutional repositories can be a frustrating experience, hampered by fragmented institutional systems.

To address these frustrations, many institutions have implemented Research Information Management Systems to collate the data required to streamline the deposit of full texts and other artefacts into institutional repositories.

This presentation examines how a RIMS can be configured to improve engagement with institutional OA policies and in turn, help repository managers track deposit rates across their institution. We will also briefly reflect on a successful ORCID integration project run by Imperial College London, the first institution to integrate a RIMS with an institutional repository, resulting in over 1200 staff claiming an ORCID within a week and leveraging the automated harvesting of data to populate their repository with verified metadata collected from external systems.