Open Access Week 2011

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Open Access Week 2011| is a celebration of the goals of the open access movement.

We support Open Access with our databases LSE Research Online|, LSE Theses Online| and LSE Learning Resources Online|. LSE Research Online contains full text versions of a variety of LSE research outputs including journal articles, book chapters, working papers and conference papers.

Open access to academic research has been defined as|:

...free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose

We encourage academic staff to deposit full text versions of their research which the LSE Research Online team catalogue in a secure, preserved archive. 

New LSE Research Online feature: OpenURL linking

LSE Article Finder, which uses OpenURL technology, has been integrated into LSE Research Online. Click this button in an LSE Research Online record and check the Library’s full-text holdings of that publication.

LSE Theses Online: launch

LSE Theses Online is now actively collecting the full text of LSE theses. Benefits of including a thesis in an open access repository include:

• Wide dissemination of work – high visibility in Google Scholar, search engines & LSE website
• Content is preserved and accurately described
• Usage statistics – demonstrable evidence of views and downloads of theses
• OA theses could attract publishers!

If you still have a digital version of your LSE thesis and would like to deposit it in LSE Theses Online, get in touch: LSEThesesOnline@lse.ac.uk|.

Open Access Week prize awards

We are pleased to announce the following winners of our Open Access Week 2011 awards:

Most downloaded item added 2010/11 

This award goes to Sonia Livingstone| and David R. Brake for their article 'On the rapid rise of social networking sites: new findings and policy implications' http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/30124/| (1360 downloads, Dec 2010 - Oct 2011)

Most downloaded working paper added 2010/11 

This award goes to Alia Brahimi| for her paper, 'The Taliban's evolving ideology' http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/29970/| (395 downloads, Nov 2010 - Oct 2011)

Most downloaded book chapter added 2010/11

This award goes to Chris Brown| for the following book chapter: Rules and norms in a post-Western world. In: Kessler, Oliver and Hall, Rodney B. and Lynch, Cecelia and Onuf, Nicholas, (eds.) On rules, politics and knowledge: Friedrich Kratochwil, international relations, and domestic affairs. Palgrave studies in international relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA, 2010, pp. 213-225 http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/31279/| (197 downloads Jan 2010 - October 2011).

Departmental award for most most full text deposited 2010-2011

Goes to the Government Department| who deposited 360 full-text open access papers in 2010/11.