UK Institutional Repository Search & IESR

1. UK Institutional Repository Search & IESR Vic Lyte & Jo Lambert 23rd June 2010

2. Outline • Mimas overview • Mimas services & projects • Background to IRS & IESR • UK Institutional Repository Search (IRS) • IESR

3. Mimas National data centre based at The University of Manchester Develops services that support teaching, learning and research Serves UK Higher Education, UK Further Education and the broader technology and research community

4. Mimas services & projects Teaching and learning materials Primary research data Discovery tools E-journals

5. IRS context Growth in Institutional Repositories Requirement to showcase what was happening in UK IR’s Lightweight search capability provided by IR software Basic ‘Google’ search is good but not sufficient

6. What is IRS? Cross-search UK HE institutional repositories Full-text search to discover open access content Free, targeted search tool Engagement with the user community informs development

7. Benefits of using IRS Cross-search 103 HE repositories Access to @600,000 deposited papers Faster & more relevant search New discovery constructs: Subject browsing Serendipitous browsing Surfacing relationships, conceptual and contextual relevance

8. Who does IRS benefit? The research community by providing an effective, personalised search and discovery service Academics in promoting awareness of their research Institutions in promoting research output to a global audience

9. What is IESR? Aims to provide a ‘Yellow Pages’ for the academic internet Free catalogue of information about e-resources and research collections Supports discovery & use of scholarly resources

10. Who is it for and how is it used? UK academic community Assists resource discovery Promotes research Search or browse content Create customised RSS alerts for new content Register details of your research centre or department

11. Content Journals (UKPMC) Bibliographic resources (WoK, Zetoc) Databases (EMBASE) Open access repositories (OpenDOAR) Social sciences datasets (Census, ESDS) Learning and teaching resources (Jorum) Research publications (Ingenta) Longitudinal surveys (HSE)

12. Benefits of using IESR Users Discover quality assured academic e-resources and research collections Single place to find resources Flexible access to content (website, search plug-ins, RSS, M2M) Discover “invisible web” resources that search engines can’t access Contributors Promote collections to wider audiences Increase awareness and use Access to a collections management tool

13. Summary IESR • Freely available • Showcases research collections • Discover information about collections • Information about related collections • User-focused design & development IRS • Freely available • Showcases research papers • Discover information about items • Conceptual and contextual links • User-focused design & development

14. URLs Mimas http://mimas.ac.uk/ IRS http://irs.mimas.ac.uk/demonstrator/ IESR http://iesr.ac.uk/

15. Thank you Vic Lyte vic.lyte@manchester.ac.ukJo Lambert jo.lambert@manchester.ac.uk