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grown the Digital Commons community to more than 600 academic institutions, which have deposited some 3.5 million articles, leading to more than one billion downloads. Along the way, he has watched open access evolve – as he says, ‘in my mind, there’s never been any kind of flashpoint event with open access’ - and is very conscious of the trials and tribulations that have ensued. ‘The work involved in finding, posting, sharing research – the building of an open access repositories – is a significant amount of work, but progress is being made,’ he says. ‘Tools have been getting better and we’ve been really learning how to cut down on some of the more arduous steps of the workflow.’ ‘This is where a lot of effort has taken
place over the last several years,’ he adds. ‘For example Sherpa-Romeo [a Jisc tool to aggregate open access policies] was a big step in that direction and we’ve seen
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various efforts to make collecting metadata easier and faster.’ For its part, Bepress has spent 16 years honing Digital Commons, and is now launching a new harvesting tool that allows users to swiftly harvest Scopus data into Digital Commons, and promises to slash the time taken by institutional repository managers to add faculty publication records into repositories, by up to 50 per cent. This, in combination with a new Outbound API, means the library can reuse the metadata from its institutional repository to manage information about its research contribution too.
‘Digital Commons has always been the
showcase repository; we’ve been the Swiss Army Knife of discovery – no matter what your content is, we will help you it showcase it beautifully,’ highlights Bankier. ‘However, we also envisage [the repository] being a hub where accurate and comprehensive
researcher data is gathered, organised and then shared.’ ‘Today’s institutional repository must
support the essential reputational needs of the university, serving as a research showcase and as a database of researcher outputs, describing the research being done,’ he adds.
Discovery matters Workflows aside, Bepress has also focused on making open access repository content discoverable as well as demonstrating impact. To this end, the company incorporated Digital Commons Dashboards that allow administrators to browse real- time download activity and generate usage reports on demand. And impact analytics have expanded beyond downloads of the full text to include metrics such as citations, captures, mentions, and social media likes and tweets with the integration of PlumX
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