CORE: Researching in Institutional Repositories

You will be noticing a lot of buzz around Open Access research this year and next, including the introduction of RaY, YSJ's research repository. RaY hosts your research outputs and makes them available open access in-line with publisher requirements.

RaY is not an isolated research repository. UK institutions who want to comply with funder mandates on open access and the new HEFCE requirements for REF will also be implementing and filling their respositories. You may notice your Google searches are pulling up more and more results from repositories but if you'd like to limit your searches to a database which searches solely in research repositories, try out CORE, a freely available database which searches hundreds of research repositories worldwide. Those of you whose research involves policy makers, schools, healthcare workers or really anyone who works outside of academia will find tools like CORE to be very useful, as it can provide access to research to those who usually don't have subscriptions.

If you're interested in hearing more about it, we'll be offering an introduction to RaY on Thursday 7 May at 9:00AM in DG104 and an introduction to Open Access on Wednesday April 22 at 9:00AM on the ground floor of Fountains. Please also keep an eye out for a researcher's goody bag from ILS with information on RaY, which will be arriving shortly.