Working towards a complete listing of University research publications
Open Access Week Spotlight - Tuesday, 20 October 2009
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As well as being the University’s open access repository for full text Enlighten is also well on the way to being the main source of data about all research publications produced by members of the University. Over the past few months staff in faculties and departments and the Enlighten team have been busy adding details of publications back to 2001 (and in some cases before that) to the system. This work is not yet complete - more than 180 have been entered manually, but within the next few weeks details of more than 20,000 publications will be uploaded from a range of existing databases.
Departments have been working hard to ensure that the details they hold about their publications are up to date prior to them being added to Enlighten. One department that has already completed this task successfully is the Department of Economic and Social History. Details of all of their publications (some from as far back as 1970) can be viewed at http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/divisions/econsh/. The departmental Enlighten contacts, Karen McFadden and Kat Husbands, have worked with Enlighten staff to ensure that publications data is up to date, and will be adding details of new publications to the system regularly from now on.
The Department is very aware of the importance of making full text available in the repository as well as details of publications. Dr Duncan Ross, Head of the Department of Economic and Social History, said
‘Enlighten is really important to our mission to widen access to our research. As social scientists, we believe absolutely in the value of our work in terms of enhancing understanding of the issues and problems faced by contemporary society and, as historians, we are convinced that solutions to those problems must be informed by knowledge and understanding of the past. There is no point undertaking this research if it is not publicized as widely as possible, and Enlighten plays a very valuable role in disseminating our results and raising the profile of our department.’
Karen McFadden and Kat Husbands receiving a bottle of Champagne from Susan Ashworth, the Library's Assistant Director
(Research and Learning Support Services) in recognition of their Open Access Work
