How to access science research online presented at the Wrexham Science Festival, Glyndwr University in July 2011

2. Wrexham Science Festival July 2011
Science at your fingertips
How to access science research online
Misha Jepson
Graduate School and Research Services Coordinator
Nicola Watkinson
Academic Liaison Co-ordinator
Copyright © Misha Jepson July 2011

3. Introduction A World Wide
Resource
Publishing
Searching
Open Access (OA)
Research Repositories
Social media
NASA Goddard Photo cc

4. Changing face of publishing
e-journals
e-books link MichaelFitz cc
Darwin online
link
TED talkslink
£ deanwissing cc Computer Sage cc
New customers
Lucy Boynton cc

5. Copyright Misha Jepson 2011
Science Research
All shapes
all sizes
Quality?
Or Not?

6. Searching can be hard
Or easy if you know where to look
Copyright Misha Jepson 2010

7. Studies suggest
Internet searches
find only 0.2%
99.8% of content is hidden
BenChenow cc

8. Realisation
Do you get the full picture?
Or need more
information?
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9. Search engines
Google link Bing k
lin
GrabAll k lin
Dogpile link

10. Web sites
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/ link
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science link

11. Open Access
Quick
Share via Internet
WordPress, SlideShare,YouTube
Everyone has access Easy
Author publishing options © art designer PLoS
creative commons license
Quality
Open Access Journals
DOAJDOAJ’s BioMed Centrallink

12. Pratham Books CC
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Thanks to all those people
who allow others to use
their images and work
Sharing
Pratham Books
1 million children in 10 years link

13. Which is reliable? Quality?
Or Not?
The search
link
Blog (a)
Link The Story
Blog (b) Scientist Magazine link
Link and uni link
The Article The Story Retold
Nature medicine Link
Wiki report on journal story
link

14. Research is not just for academics
Mother diagnosis
daughter's brain tumour
from Internet research link
Internet research likely
saves life of man
with rare skin cancer link
‘The internet saved my life’ link
Lawyer checks her treatment options

15. Share, collaborate and
allow open access
to research
Academic supporters
YouTube - Benefits of Open Access

16. Benefit society
Free access and searchable
search engine
Showcase for research
Central resource
Collaboration opportunities/funding
Why have a repository?

17. Website Demonstration
A free Open Access online archival database
hosting Glyndŵr University’s research

18. Website information
Browse by author
Wang, Q (Docs: 1)
Warren, Emily (Docs: 3) Paper of the day
Top 10
Wilkinson, Graeme (Docs: 5)
downloads
Williams, D (Docs: 1)
Williams, E (Docs: 2)
Authors
Williams, J (Docs: 1)
Williams, L (Docs: 2)
Most recent Williams, Peter (Docs: 11) Monitor output
Wilson, S (Docs: 1)
Wright, Andrew (Docs: 4)
Total content
http://epubs.glyndwr.ac.uk/

19. Content
Metadata Copyright Misha Jepson 2011
(abstract & citation)
or
Full text
Which would you prefer? Copyright Misha Jepson 2011

20. Sharing Information
Twitter
@glyndwr_repos twitter
@glynlib link Researcher
Social media the future? link
Newsletter link
Blogs link
http://glyndwrgraduateschool.edublogs.org/
http://glynlib.blogspot.com/

21. Following Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/NASA
http://twitter.com/#!/tedtalks
http://twitter.com/#!/Philbradley
http://twitter.com/#!/karenblakeman

22. The future
Copyright Misha Jepson 2010
Open Door Policy so everyone has access

23. Copyright Misha Jepson 2010
Any Questions?
Follow us on Twitter
@glyndwr_repos Twitter @glynlib
Glyndŵr University
Research Online
http://epubs.glyndwr.ac.uk
d.jepson@glyndwr.ac.uk Misha Jepson
nicolaw@glyndwr.ac.uk Nicola Watkinson
“No man can make a greater mistake than he who did nothing
because he himself could only do a little” Edmund Burke 1729-1797