Followers of the thread relating to embedding feeds from their IR might be interested in some functionality we've just added to our repository here at the OU. Please see my blog post for more information: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/ORO/?p=141.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paolo Mangiafico [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 01 June 2010 18:58
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: who is looking at IRs
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?
Thanks...
-- Paolo
Paolo Mangiafico
Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
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:
>
>> 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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