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The Digital Commons Discipline Wheel: Open Access Revolution

Explore a shiny new digital landscape where knowledge is freely shared through open access publishing, impacting the research landscape positively. Break the silos of research with Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Harvard Library Portal, and more. Participate in the movement to connect local repositories to a vast network of scholarly resources. Discover the potential of curated content in various disciplines, enhancing serendipity in research.

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The Digital Commons Discipline Wheel: Open Access Revolution

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  1. Portals: Pride not Prejudice! Yvonne Desmond LIR Annual Seminar 21 March, 2014

  2. Open Access Promise • Shiny new digital landscape • Knowledge freely shared • Freely available to all • Potential to change the research landscape • Movement slow to grow

  3. Achievements • Repositories • Open access Publishing • Open licensing • Institutional support • Funder mandates • Impact as metric

  4. The Problem of the Silo Pockets of Research

  5. Hindawi Publishing Corporation Open Access | Harvard Library Portal Social Science Research Network RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) T-Stór OpenAIRE • OAIster®

  6. What if you took the content of over 300 universities and made it browsable in a meaningful way to scholars, enabling them to search by discipline and always obtain full text at the end of the search? The Digital Commons Discipline Wheel

  7. Open Access, Powered by Scholars, Published by Universities • Not another cross search • Aggregates around subjects • Graphical browsing • Full text articles/No barriers • Totally free/curated http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/subscriber_gallery/ participating universities

  8. Open Access Promise • True Open Access/Trusted resource • Potential to change the research landscape • Restores serendipity Contribution to the local repository connects to the network Exploration by authors/ potential authors Exposure for Organisation Bridge …local repository to discipline wheel, wheel to local repository

  9. Taxonomy • Architecture, • Arts/Humanities • Business • Education • Engineering • Life Sciences • Medicine/Health Sciences • Physical Sciences and Mathematics • Social & Behavioural Sciences • Law http://arrow.dit.ie/ : http://epubs.rcsi.ie/

  10. Demonstration of the wheel

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