Provost Deba Dutta and Dean of Libraries Jim Mullins presented the \u201cLeadership in Open Access Award\u201d to Purdue\u2019s Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Health and Human Sciences, led by Professor Christopher Agnew, Department Head of Psychological Sciences.<\/p>\n
The award was given in recognition of the department\u2019s leadership in depositing all scholarly communication and publications into Purdue e-Pubs, helping to advance the impact of scholarship and research globally.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the tradition of the land-grant university, Dr. Agnew has embraced open access and made available to the world the important research and publications of the Department of Psychological Sciences,\u201d said Provost Deba Dutta.<\/p>\n
\u201cPurdue e-Pubs is a very useful mechanism for disseminating our research findings far and wide, beyond only academic outlets,\u201d said Department Head Dr. Christopher Agnew. \u201cPurdue e-Pubs provides a valuable, user-friendly forum for both researchers and consumers of research. \u00a0Researchers in my department saw the benefits of Purdue e-Pubs as an easy-to-use open access repository for increasing the access and exposure of their work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Open Access week, held October 20-24, 2014 this past year, is an international event bringing awareness to open access. Purdue Libraries celebrates and encourages authors (particularly academic faculty) to participate as they can.<\/p>\n
Purdue e-Pubs, one of three institutional repositories as part of Purdue University Libraries, provides free global online access to Purdue-affiliated articles, reports, conference proceedings, student scholarship, and more. Purdue e-Pubs also provides online publishing support for original publications.<\/p>\n
Measuring and reporting impact is an important part of the Purdue e-Pubs service model. As well as having all content indexed in Google Scholar, Purdue e-Pubs uses Google Analytics to gather qualitative information. The repository also issues automatic monthly download notifications to authors, allowing authors the opportunity to demonstrate the reach of their scholarship, not only to academic colleagues and administrators, but to taxpayers, policymakers and media outlets.<\/p>\n
To date, every college on Purdue\u2019s West Lafayette campus has a presence in the repository.\u00a0 Purdue e-Pubs continues to be a central place on campus advancing the impact of scholarship at the global, national and local level. Purdue University Libraries began providing the Purdue e-Pubs service to the campus community in 2006 as a means to share research and scholarship in a stable, open, and citable format.<\/p>\n