As part of the JISC Open Impact project, we are looking at ways of using a repository to provide broad overviews of researcher (and research group) activity for marketing (and in the UK, REF) purposes.
This includes generating timelines, presentations, summaries, stories, overviews of a decade's worth of research, such that you can trace the story of a particular line of enquiry and show off the evidence of its impact. This pulls together funded projects, press releases, press clippings, reviews and writeups on the Web (blogs, twitter etc).
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Les
On 1 Jun 2010, at 18:57, Paolo Mangiafico wrote:
> Has anyone had success with embedding feeds from their IR directly into researcher profile pages or relevant department or institute web sites? This is an approach we're planning to try at Duke University, with the idea that no potential reader should need to know what an IR is or to go look for something in one. In addition to having IR contents exposed to search engines for the reasons already stated, we figure that having links to these materials in the web pages of the authors and their organizations might be another good way to lead people to them, without potential readers necessarily needing to know or care about the IR itself. Can anyone share examples or where this approach has already been used, and how it has worked?
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> Thanks...
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> -- Paolo
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> Paolo Mangiafico
> Duke University
> Durham, NC, USA
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> On 6/1/10 1:26 PM Neil Stewart wrote:
>> Agreed- here at LSE, between 70 and 80% of traffic to our repository
>> comes from "the internet"- Google, Bing, Yahoo and the like.
>>
>> This translates into 1000s of document downloads every month, even if
>> these downloads aren't necessarily being made by LSE academics, who have
>> the luxury of extensive e-journal holdings to make use of.
>>
>> Neil Stewart, LSE Research Online.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Repositories discussion list
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leslie Carr
>> Sent: 01 June 2010 17:48
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: who is looking at IRs
>>
>> How does he do a journal search? Go to the journal home page? Sit at a
>> terminal in the library and use a subscription aggregator? Use Web of
>> Science?
>>
>> Or use Google, like pretty much everyone I know. That's how I find
>> stuff, and some of it turns out to be in repositories.
>> --
>> Les
>>
>>
>> On 1 Jun 2010, at 17:12, Richard Rankin wrote:
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>>> I was at a meeting this afternoon promoting the population of our IR
>> and an academic commented that he would not go to an IR directly for
>> information.
>>> Rather he would do a journal search.
>>>
>>> Also commented that on discussion with his colleagues non of them
>> could recollect doing a search that led them to an IR to obtain
>> information on published works.
>>>
>>> He then asked who are the people who use IRs as sources of
>> information?
>>>
>>> Ricky
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