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Polaris OS powered by MyScienceWork is a completely new repository approach that allows users to create high-quality, robust and scalable repositories supporting complex functions with little to no programming skills. With an advanced yet predominantly user centric approach, the AI-driven digital asset management solution maps internal research, manages scholarly communication storage, analyses research impact and ameliorates user experience. This open-source solution is highly customisable and versatile in its use (as a library management system, multimedia archive, research data repository or institutional repository).
Four ways Polaris OS supports repository users
Repository managers and curators : Build and maintain a powerful repository (with hardly any IT skills), automating tasks through NLP and TDM technologies such as:
• Automatic extraction from publications (named entities, concepts, patterns, projects, trends), and • Classification of publications, translation of metadata, and so on – all the while increasing research field competitiveness.
Researchers : Automatic deposit workflows with pre-filling services supported by AI algorithms that allow PDF metadata retrieval.
Developers : Direct access to an easily manageable evolving open-source solution with opportunities to focus on new and improved features within the institution.
Governing bodies : Comprehensive analytics for strategic intelligence (including productivity metrics, impact metrics, collaboration and reference graphs, data visualisation) for research team leaders and R&D directors via a suite of advanced reporting and analytics tools.
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Metrics. ‘This is about encouraging additional contributions from authors and is so important,’ says Bankier. ‘It’s like the tree falling in the forest; if no-one hears that, did it really fall? The more authors are alerted to the impact that their work is having, the more they will contribute in the future.’
Other key industry players are
developing methods to drive both discovery and impact forward. Earlier this year, Figshare launched a faceted search page across its platform – which, according to chief executive, Mark Hahnel, is designed to make it easier for users to ask questions and find content. The move was, in part, prompted by
Figshare’s rapidly rising volumes of text- based content. While the platform was originally designed with visual searches in mind, it has been increasingly used by institutions as a paper and thesis repository while high-volume preprint services, including ChemRxiv and SAGE Advance, also rely on its infrastructure. ‘We’re also adding quality filters to the
search, such as filter by citation count, which provides an indicator of what we can do,’ highlights Hahnel. ‘Importantly, the faceted search also
provides a way to ask questions, such as ‘how many downloads of chemistry content have there been in June’ on a
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human level, and without using a [search] API.’
Liz Bal, director of open research
services at Jisc, is pleased to see a rising number of tools designed to make life easier for repository users. ‘We have more repositories than ever, more research than ever and as an end-user navigating this, it can be challenging.’ In a similar vein to Bankier and Hahnel, she believes discovery is a crucial part of the growing repository landscape. ‘At Jisc, we are interested in discovery as we believe this is an area that is ripe for improvement, will help people access the right information and help us realise the benefits of open research,’ she says. Indeed, Jisc has been outlining many mechanisms and key tools to drive discovery forward. For example, the organisation recommends that any repository registers with the global directory of open access repositories – OpenDOAR – so users can find the most relevant repository when searching for content. Importantly, registration also ensures a repository is picked up by services such as CORE, a global aggregator of open access content, delivered by Jisc and The Open University. ‘In response to the recent UKRI open
access consultation, one of our key recommendations is that registration with OpenDOAR becomes mandatory,’ says Bal. ‘This will help with content searches,
quality assurance and provide information around the status of the national and global repository infrastructure,’ she adds. ‘We’re keen to link up such services to add depth and resilience to the repository infrastructure.’ As Bal also highlights, Jisc’s aggregator,
CORE, includes a web-based search engine, programmable access to metadata and full-text for text mining to promote content
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