We have developed a new service - publications router - which helps institutions capture their research article outputs onto their open repositories and other systems.
It does this by taking information from publishers and other sources, matching articles to the institutions to which they are affiliated. It then delivers the information into their repositories or current research information systems (CRISs). Following an earlier prototype, this project developed a pilot for service. It has now progressed to become a live service.
Why we did this
Institutions have long aspired to capture their academics’ research papers and make them openly available. This has been given added impetus by funding bodies’ open access policies, notably the policy on open access and the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Our publications router initiative helps automate this process, saving institutions time and administrative effort.
What we did
The project followed on from an earlier prototype system that demonstrated this idea could work. From mid-2015 to July 2016 we developed a pilot for service that delivers notifications, often including the articles themselves, straight into institutions’ repositories or other systems. It does this by receiving data feeds from publishers and other sources.
These feeds consist of notifications that an article has been published or accepted for publication, for example, and often include the full text of the articles themselves. The router analyses the affiliations of each article’s co-authors, amongst other things, and matches them to participating institutions.
The pilot system succeeded in delivering notifications and content into institutions’ repositories, with new institutions and publishers taking part. The publications router has therefore progressed from a development project into an active service. More institutions are joining, and we expect to add feeds from more and more publishers and other sources.
