LSE Research Online - working hard!

Did you know that last year items were added to LSE Research Online on 260 different days of the year?

This was recognised in a comparison of Hard Working Repositories|, placing us at number two in the UK and 6th globally for 'vitality and embeddedness'.

Open Access Week

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Open Access Week|, October 19-23 2009, aims to broaden awareness and understanding of open access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders.

The Library, which supports LSE's flagship open access resource LSE Research Online, is celebrating this Open Access Week by presenting awards to the LSE authors and departments with the most research outputs openly accessible on the internet through the service. We are also running a prize draw from the names of authors who deposit full text items in LSE Research Online during the week.

LSE Research Online Awards 2009 - Winners announced!|

In recognition of the LSE staff who are already making their work available as open access research, the LSE Research Online Team is making a number of awards during the week:

Department with the most open access full text in LSE Research Online
Individual award for the most downloaded open access full text item in LSE Research Online
Individual award for largest number of open access full text papers in LSE Research Online.

The winners are announced here|.

LSE Research Online

LSE Research Online| is the online collection of research outputs by LSE academic and research staff. The benefits to LSE academic staff for contributing to LSE Research Online are: enhanced impact for their research, assurance that it is indexed by Google and other major search engines, and automatic inclusion in publications lists in the LSE Experts Directory|.

To send us your research outputs, email lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk| or register| to start adding your research online today.

Related links

LSE Research Online|

Budapest Open Access Initiative|

RoMEO|

Does your publisher allow you to make your work open access? Visit RoMEO| to find out.

JULIET|

Does your research funder require you to make your publications and data open access? Visit JULIET| to find out.

Economists Online|

LSE Library is working with the Department of Economics, CEP and STICERD and with 20 international partners in the EU co-funded NEEO| Project to develop a major open access economics portal.

International subject repositories conference in London, 28-29 January 2010, British Library Conference Centre. |

This conference organised by Nereus|, the European economics library consortium, will be of interest to library directors, repository managers, publishers and economists.

Create Change

SPARC|

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