JISC

Summary

Existing journals, institutional research reports or even selected student dissertations could cheaply and effectively be packaged by a new publishing venture providing engaging magazine-style products based on syndicated content. Beyond this, socially enhanced material could be included by readers tweeting URLs of related material in other repositories / journals / blogs / news feeds.
This project aims to adapt the existing repository infrastructure to serve the scholarly community. Some very simple enhancements to existing repositories will allow research managers and library staff to create and manage new publishing opportunities using existing content and institutional infrastructure, while respecting the professionalism, rigour and quality of the existing scholarly process.

Objectives

The objectives of CampusROAR are (a) to produce the technical infrastructure to allow repositories to integrate with emergent social publication platforms (b) to work with publishers and institutional libraries to extend the available channels for disseminating scholarly discourse (c) to work with scholars and readers to evaluate their response to these new opportunities.

Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes

The project will provide a plugin for EPrints repositories to allow them to publish journals using contemporary social publishing platforms on smartphones and tablets; it will also provide two case studies based on existing online scholarly publications and evaluate scholars’ responses to these new publication channels.