1. Overview
• Repository
• Open Access to research
• Research management
• Symplectic Elements
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Integration

2. Repository
• 2311 records (research)
• 419 full-text
• 429 records (OER)
• 40,521 unique visitors
• 11,622 unique visitors (2012 to date)
• Might be more (problems with metrics)
• 171 countries/territories

3. Open Access to research
• Changing landscape
• Finch report
• Willetts announced move to full OA in 2
years!
• Estimated cost to HE is £50 – 60 M
• Institutional publishing

4. Research Management
• Automatically retrieve bibliographic data
• Web of Knowledge (WoS), Scopus, PubMed
• Centralised admin (URO / faculty admin)
• Import data from existing records (e.g.
EndNote)
• Manage your own research profile
• Upload full-text outputs directly to repository
• Nominate papers for REF assessment

5. Symplectic
Elements

6. Open Educational Resources
• Harvest OER from elsewhere
• Jorum
• Search OER from across sector
• EBSCO Discovery Service
• EasyDeposit
• Graduate Attributes

8. EasyDeposit