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January 10th, 2012
On November 21, 2011, the University Resources Policy Committee (URPC) recommended to the Academic Senate that it adopt a resolution that supports that peer-reviewed, scholarly articles published by Purdue faculty be deposited in Purdue ePubs digital repository. Deposit of the research article into Purdue ePubs does not replace the publication of record in the scholarly journal, citation is still to the publication in the scholarly journal. The pre-print deposited into Purdue ePubs increases the eyes on the publication, and will direct the reader to the publication of record for citation, etc.
The Senate will vote on the proposal at the January 23 meeting. For further information about the open access movement of leading institutions including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Duke, and Penn and Kansas, please click here. (Information related Open Access comes from the 2011 Open Access Week speakers from the University of Kansas.) If you have questions about the resolution before the Academic Senate contact Beth McNeil, associate dean for Academic Affairs, at memcneil@purdue.edu or (765) 496-2261.
Currently, several departments and units from around the university have collections in Purdue ePubs. The Birck Nanotechnology Center (BNC), uses Purdue ePubs to collate and display hundreds of articles and proceedings papers published by BNC faculty and staff.
With Purdue ePubs a simple online submission form makes uploading files easy. Information about copyright and tools provided by the Libraries ensure that authors retain the rights necessary to deposit their work. Discoverability tools embedded in Purdue ePubs facilitate indexing by Google Scholar among other specialized search engines. Stable, citable, openly accessible collections of papers help departments and centers promote their research output not only to academic colleagues, but also to policy makers and media outlets. As Timothy Sands, Provost and former director of the BNC notes, “Purdue ePubs greatly enhances access to the scholarly works of our faculty, students, and postdoctoral fellows. We now have a very robust and impressive record of the Center’s scholarship and impact that has proven to be invaluable for recruiting and for solidifying our reputation as one of the top nanotechnology centers in the world.”
Why Purdue ePubs? Purdue ePubs is an open access repository and depositing into Purdue ePubs means the full-text of your publications is in Google Scholar, giving scholars around the world access to your work. Purdue ePubs tracks usage of publications, issues monthly download notifications to authors, and with Google Analytics allows authors to demonstrate global access and impact of their scholarship. Self-deposit in Purdue ePubs is at no additional cost to members of the Purdue community. Another benefit to the Purdue community Purdue ePubs offers is sustainable access, because when servers move or websites are reorganized a scholarly article accessible from a faculty members webpage may become inaccessible
Click here for more information about contributing to, or partnering with, Purdue ePubs.
Browse Purdue ePubs at www.purdue.edu/epubs.