Making the most of NECTAR
Nick Dimmock
Image: Steve Berardi (CC BY-SA 2.0)
What is NECTAR?
Northampton Electronic Collection of Theses and Research
An Open Access repository of research output created by postgraduate students and research-active staff at Northampton.
NECTAR provides:
- Rich metadata
- including links to published versions
- Full texts
- and images, videos, audio files...
- School and author collections
- Integration with external services
- e.g. Google Scholar, EThOS
Browse by school
Browse by institute
Browse by author
Full text downloads
"Unrestricted online access to research"
Open Access and NECTAR
- NECTAR provides a route for green Open Access
- NECTAR is free for all to use
- Metadata can be reused
- Full-text files are free to download
- Creative Commons licences are available
- Copyright is not affected
Green Open Access
- AKA self-archiving
- In institutional or subject repositories
- Free to share, free to access
- Publishers may require embargo
- May be version restrictions (e.g. accepted version)
- May (rarely) be forbidden!
- Use RoMEO to find green-friendly publishers
- Central to the post-2014 REF
Why NECTAR?
- Deposit in NECTAR can satisfy OA funder mandates
- An important factor in the post-2014 REF
- Visibility: no restrictions or paywalls
- Added value: professional metadata, author tools
- Permanence & propagation
NECTAR in context
Image by Aya Mulder (cc-by)
Drivers
- Open access movement
- Government policy / public funding
- Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008)
- University showcase
- Research reporting - quarterly reports
People
- Research administration (RSBO)
- Researchers
- Library
- Eprints Services
- School NECTAR ambassadors
External support
- JISC funding for:
- Initial NECTAR start-up (2007-8)
- KeepIt project - preservation and repositories (2009-10)
- 'Bringing a buzz to NECTAR' - enhancing and embedding (2011-12)
- 'Open to Open Access' - meeting funders' requirements (2014-16)
External support
- Integration with:
- EThOS - electronic theses at the British Library
- IRStats - repository usage statistics
- Google Scholar, CORE - indexing
NECTAR records
- In NECTAR:
- In Google Scholar
- In EThOS
- And elsewhere...
NECTAR profiles
- On NECTAR
- On the university website (for staff)
- Also used for research institutes and centres
- And anywhere else, via RSS and exports
Creating a NECTAR record
Planning ahead
- Keep your versions!
- Check funder requirements
- Consider journal options
- Use RoMEO and JULIET
- Remember to Act on Acceptance
Is your item NECTAR-ready?
- 2007 or later ✔
- In the public domain or accepted for publication ✔
- Research output ✔
- University output ✔
Make the most of metadata
- Be comprehensive!
- DOI
- e.g. 10.1371/journal.pone.0025891
- Also useful for importing items
- Abstract
- Include relevant departments and groups
- Links, links, links!
- Keywords
Adding the full text
- Use the right version
- HEFCE require accepted version as a minimum
- Use RoMEO
- Embargos: we'll take care of it
- Creative Commons licences?
After you deposit
- Metadata team
- Going live (email notification)
- Checking and coversheets for full texts
Updates
- On publication, contact nectar@northampton.ac.uk
- We'll do the rest
Promote your work
- Use NECTAR URLs
- e.g. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/5589/
- URLs are persistent and open
- Link to your publications list
- Use RSS feeds and exports
- Ask the NECTAR team for stats
- Keep adding!
2016 on NECTAR
Item stats
Links
Thanks!
Making the most of NECTAR
Nick Dimmock
Image: Steve Berardi (CC BY-SA 2.0)