Temporary closure of Special Collections and Archives 2017

The Special Collections and Archives are currently closed following a major flooding incident on Saturday 7th January. A relatively small number of items suffered water damage, thanks to our immediate response and successful salvage operation. Even so, the incident has caused major and long term disruption to the service.

All collections have moved to alternative storage and we are unable to offer an enquiry or searchroom service whilst we dedicate the coming months to the care of our collections and reinstatement of the archive stores.

There may be some delay in responding to emails and phone calls.

Updates on progress will be posted in due course.

Publishing Your Research Open Access in the Keele Research Repository

Publishing your research Open Access ensures that your work can reach the widest possible audience. Publishing to a repository, such as, the Keele Research Repository is called the “Green route”, whereas publishing Open Access through a journal is known as the “Gold route” and you have to pay to publish in this way.

So what are the advantages of publishing your research Open Access?

• More people can read your research without having to pay for it or log-in through subscription services.
• More people can download your research freely and share it with other people.
• More citations of your research are likely as it is more easily accessible to more people.
• More research outputs are made available due to the ease of access to your research.

Of course, the other reason why you should publish your research into the Keele Research Repository is to ensure that it can be included in the next Research Excellence Framework. To ensure REF compliance, researchers must:

• Deposit their peer-reviewed, final accepted manuscript to the Keele Research Repository (this is not the final published version that includes publisher typesetting).
• Ensure that anything published after 1st April 2016 is submitted to the repository within 12 weeks of the date of acceptance by the publisher.

The table below shows the ten most accessed and downloaded research papers from January 2016 to December 2016 from the Keele Research Repository. All these papers are available through Open Access. Just click on the link to access the paper.

Full Text Article Requests from the Keele Research Repository (Jan 2016-Dec 2016).  Data taken from IRUS-UK

Author	Title	Number of Requests	URL
Dr Julie Hulme	Learning styles in the classroom: educational benefit or planning exercise	1632	http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/390/
Dr Jamie Pringle	The use of geoscience methods for terrestrial forensic searches	759	http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/788/
Dr Julie Green	The impact of chronic venous leg ulcers: a systematic review	473	http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/693/
Joanne Jordan	Interventions to improve adherence to exercise for chronic musculoskeletal pain in adults	318	http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/947/
Dr Jamie Pringle	The Carboniferous Southern Pennine Basin, UK	316	http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/153/
Dr Jamie Pringle	The Precambrian-Cambrian nonconformity at the Ercall Quarries, The Wrekin, Shropshire, UK	273	http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/785/
Dr Martin Hollamby	Recent advances in nanoparticle synthesis with reversed micelles	258	http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/96/
Laurence Wood	The epidemiology of patellofemoral disorders in adulthood: a review of routine general practice morbidity recording	182	http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/148/
Dr Paul Forrester	The leadership criterion: challenges in pursuing excellence in the Jordanian public sector	178	http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/1397/
Professor Clifford Stott	Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach	173	http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/1573/

If you need help publishing your research to the Keele Research Repository or you just want to know more about publishing Open Access, please book onto the session Publishing Your Research Open Access Using the Keele Publications Database through Keele People. Sessions are available on Wednesday 8th February (10-1), Wednesday 22nd March (10-1) or Wednesday 3rd May (10-1).

Happy New Year!

Wishing a happy and successful 2017 to all Library users, past and present.