Slides for a brief presentation of a paper by Brian Kelly, UKOLN and Jenny Delasalle, University of Warwick on "Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?" accepted for the Open Repositories 2012 (OR12) conference. See paper at http://opus.bath.ac.uk/30227/ and accompanying blog post at http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/paper-accepted-for-or12/

1. We Need a Repository!
Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?
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2. Twitter: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/or12/
#or2012
Open Repositories 2012:
Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu
Enhance Access to Open Repositories?
Brian Kelly Jenny Delasalle
UKOLN Academic Services Manager
(Research)
University of Bath
University of Warwick
Email:
Email:
J.Delasalle@warwick.ac.uk
b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk
Blog:
Blog:
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
libresearch
Twitter: @briankelly
Twitter: @JennyDelasalle
UKOLN is supported by:
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3. We Need a Repository!
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4. We’ve Got a Repository, But …
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5. The Evidence
The evidence:
• 16 of the top 20 departmental papers
• Most downloads of all authors
Possible reasons:
• Quality of the papers
• Promotion of the papers
(but why are old papers popular?)
• Formats of the papers (possibility)
• Incoming links from LinkedIn,
Academia.edu, ...
The benefits:
• Citations (4 papers with 40-80 citations)
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• Impact on practitioners
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6. We Need a Link Strategy!
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7. What Next?
Join the debate at http://bit.ly/or12-136/
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8. Further Information
Can LinkedIn and
Academia.edu Enhance
Access to Open Repositories?
B. Kelly & J. Delasalle,
OR 2012, 9-13 July 2012,
Edinburgh
See:
• Repository copy at
http://opus.bath.ac.uk/30227/
• Blog post about this paper
on UK Web Focus blog at
http://bit.ly/or12-136
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