An institutional repository publishing model for Imperial College London grey literature
Author(s)
Price, Robyn
Murtagh, John
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
In 2019 we became increasingly aware of authors at Imperial College London
choosing to publish grey literature through local website PDF or full text hosting.
Recognising the need to improve the institutional open access repository as a
venue of choice to publish or co-publish grey literature, we developed a
publishing model of identifiers (DOIs and ORCIDs) and metrics (indexing,
citations and Altmetric coverage). Some of the incentives already existed in the
repository but had not previously been explicitly communicated as benefits;
whilst others required technical infrastructure development and scholarly
communications education for authors. As of September 2020, a 206% increase
in deposit of one type of grey literature has been observed over the previous full
year, including Imperial’s influential COVID-19 statistical modelling reports.
choosing to publish grey literature through local website PDF or full text hosting.
Recognising the need to improve the institutional open access repository as a
venue of choice to publish or co-publish grey literature, we developed a
publishing model of identifiers (DOIs and ORCIDs) and metrics (indexing,
citations and Altmetric coverage). Some of the incentives already existed in the
repository but had not previously been explicitly communicated as benefits;
whilst others required technical infrastructure development and scholarly
communications education for authors. As of September 2020, a 206% increase
in deposit of one type of grey literature has been observed over the previous full
year, including Imperial’s influential COVID-19 statistical modelling reports.
Date Issued
2021-01-11
Date Acceptance
2020-08-12
Citation
The Serials Librarian, 2021, 79 (3-4), pp.349-358
ISSN
0361-526X
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Start Page
349
End Page
358
Journal / Book Title
The Serials Librarian
Volume
79
Issue
3-4
Copyright Statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Serials Librarian. Robyn Price & John Murtagh (2021) An Institutional Repository Publishing Model for Imperial College London Grey Literature, The Serials Librarian, DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2020.1847737 . It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
License URL
Identifier
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0361526X.2020.1847737
Subjects
grey literature
institutional repository
persistent identifiers
bibliometrics
scholarly communications
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-01-11