Open Practices for Open Repositories « UK Web Focus

"Open Access Week, which took place last week, was a busy period for me. Not only did I give talks on how social media can enhance access to research papers hosted in institutional repositories at the universities of Exeter, Salford and Bath, I also wrote accompanying posts which were published on the Networked Researcher and JISC blogs. But perhaps more importantly last week I coordinated the publication of three guest posts on this blog: SEO Analysis of WRAP, the Warwick University Repository, SEO Analysis of LSE Research Online and SEO Analysis of Enlighten, the University of Glasgow Institutional Repository ... Sharing of Repository Practices and Experiences ... The background to this work were the two papers I co-authored for the Open Repositories OR 2012 conference. In the paper on 'Open Metrics for Open Repositories' (available in PDF and MS Word formats) myself, Nick Sheppard, Jenny Delasalle, Mark Dewey, Owen Stephens,Gareth Johnson and Stephanie Taylor conclude with a call for repository managers, developers and policy makers to be pro-active in providing open access to metrics for open repositories. In the paper which asked 'Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?', also available in PDF and MS Word formats, Jenny Delasalle and myself described how popular social media services which are widely use by researchers can have a role to play in  enhancing the visibility of papers hosted in repositories. However although LinkedIn and Academia.edu appeared to be widely used we  concluded by described how 'further work is planned to investigate whether such links are responsible for enhancing SEO rankings of resources hosted in institutional repositories'" ...