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Open Access Week 2010 includes 14 new open access mandates
This year’s Open Access Week was the largest and most successful yet, with just under 900 participants from 94 countries! The aim of this global event was to open the public’s eyes to the benefits of open access in scholarly publishing and its impact on scientific progress across disciplines and society as a whole.
This year’s event included the Open Access Week Mandate Adoption Challenge, inviting institutions to announce their open access mandates and submit them to ROARMAP. The first mandate announced was from Teesside University for the launch of their repository, TeesRep, powered by Open Repository. It requires Teesside University researchers to deposit publicly available output of the University’s research into TeesRep, which holds journal articles, books, PhD theses and multimedia work.
With an increase in the diversity of the participants, there were many written, photographed and video highlights which can be read about here.
To learn more about how Open Repository can help you meet your open access requirements, please get in touch.
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More PubMed integration in Open Repository
One of Open Repository's most useful additions has been the ability to automatically retrieve metadata from PubMed given a PubMed ID. In the last couple of days, this integration has been taken a little further.
Now, when submitting an item, if you have used a PubMed identifier, on reaching the 'Upload a file' screen the system will contact PubMed and attempt to see if there is anywhere that hosts the full text for that article. If PubMed does have links for the full text, then these will be displayed on the page, allowing you to easily get to other sources of the full text so that you can upload it to your repository.
Note, that this only displays during the submission process, and it is up to the user and/or admin to ensure that the repository has the rights to host any files obtained.
Click here for an example of this functionality.
Also, on the preview sites is an additional feature that will display related articles in PubMed for any item that has been assigned a PubMed identifier - click here for an example. As ever, please give us any feedback you may have.
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