e-publications@RCSI, the RCSI institutional repository - competition winners!

Congratulations to Frank Doyle, Department of Psychology, and Fiona O'Mahony, Department of Molecular Medicine, who each won a £50 voucher for Amazon for submitting some of their work to e-publications@RCSI, the RCSI institutional repository http://epubs.rcsi.ie.

Frank's work can be downloaded at http://epubs.rcsi.ie/psycholart/21/ and Fiona's at http://epubs.rcsi.ie/molmedart/2/

e-publications@RCSI is an open access institutional repository of research and scholarly output of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Mandated by stakeholders like SFI, HRB and HEA, repository deposit of research material has proven benefits:

• broadens worldwide access to your material
• increases citations for research material
• preserves your work publicly
• indexed on Google, Google Scholar and Scirus
• profiles Irish researchers internationally
  

To find out more about the repository or to submit your work, contact the repository administrators at epubs@rcsi.ie or check out the website.

RCSI repository for research and scholarly output - e-publications@RCSI

The Library has set up a repository for RCSI research and scholarly output called http://epubs.rcsi.ie/

What is e-publications@RCSI?
e-publications@RCSI (http://epubs.rcsi.ie/) is an open access repository of the research and scholarly output of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The service is in development and is maintained and managed by RCSI Library.

Whose research is in it?
Material can be deposited by RCSI staff and students.

Where is it?
You can find it at http://epubs.rcsi.ie/ or link to it from the RCSI Library web pages.

How do I deposit my research?
Contact the repository administrators at epubs@rcsi.ie. We will contact you with further information on how to submit.

What can it do for me?

• Help make your academic work freely available on the internet
• Increase worldwide access to your work (in just 4 weeks people have downloaded RCSI research from 16 different countries)
• Provide a central archive of your work
• Many Irish funding bodies, including SFI, the HEA, the HRB and IRCSET, require researchers to submit published work funded by them to an open access repository

What do I need to do?
Keep pre- and post-prints of all your publications!
If possible we will use the publisher version of your publications. However, many publishers do not allow use of their final version. They usually allow use of pre-prints (this is the version of the paper pre-refereeing/pre-peer review) and/or post-prints (this is the final draft post-refereeing/post-peer review).