Gully Foyle
It is the study of a man completely lacking in imagination or ambition, Gulliver Foyle. Fate transforms "Gully" Foyle in an instant; shipwrecked in space, then abandoned by a passing luxury liner
Foyle becomes a monomaniacal and sophisticated monster bent upon revenge. Wearing many masks, learning many skills, this "worthless" man pursues his goals relentlessly; no price is too high to pay.

Overview

Leicester University
Top 20 in all National tables
91% student satisfaction rate
6th Highest citations rates relative to size
23,000 students
41% Distance Learners
Around 1000 academic staff
93% submitted for RAE ’08
87% determined to be producing internationally significant research
4 Colleges
Moved from faculty structure this academic year

LRA Secret Origins
Founded as Library project 2006
Academic support but not direct involvement
Secondment of 0.5fte manager
Secondment 0.5fte administrator
Full-text purist at start
RAE 2007/8 ingest of 2000+ metadata records
2008 moves towards service

The
LRA
TEAM

The LRA Method
Fully mediated
Self-archiving option
Self archiving trial 2 years ago
Research and nothing else
Top level decision and ongoing ethos
Educational and non-scholalry objects sent elsewhere…
Contents
The usual melange of documents, images, software and data
Focus on author’s final versions unless © says otherwise
Author Licence
Signed first time

Licence to Kill

What’s in the LRA: Materials
Full text ~25-35%

What’s Used in the LRA: Items

LRA Today
Comprises
Over 4,400 items (>25% full text)
RSS feeds for collections and departments
Commerce using it to ID & assess collaborators
Core team to enable archiving and provide advice
Webometrics
A measure of their visibility and scholarly regard
165th ranked HEI Repository globally
Highly ranked HEI Repository in the UK
#13 Cambridge
#14 Brunel
#15 SAS
#16 Leicester/LRA
#17 Huddersfield
#18 SOAS

What’s in the LRA: College

What’s Used in the LRA: College

Who’s Using the LRA?
Visits
Dec 09 +25%
Jan 10 +20%

Outreach & Engagement
Information librarians
Alerts and raising awareness
Personal visits
Dept Meetings & Champions
Research Office collaborations
Social networking
Twitter and RSS feeds
Twitter discussions with local community
Frequent blogged activities

Dark Forces Rising

Mandates @ Leicester
Leicester Research Publications Policy
Enacted by VC and Senate May 2009
Owned by the Research Office & Library jointly
Full-text to be deposited in LRA
Bibliographic data added to the Leicester RED
Where © doesn’t allow immediate deposit
Metadata only record created
Full-text added at appropriate time
Impact
Yet to bite home with many academics
Has seen a major upswing in deposits and enquiries
LRA more firmly on many (if not all) Dept. agendas

Mandates @ Leicester
…from 1st June 2009, academic staff are required to submit their research publications to both the open access web-based Leicester Research Archive (LRA) and the internal central research publications database (RED).
applies to all publications from 1 January 2006 onwards, although staff are welcome to submit items published earlier than this.
This submission requirement is in addition to any specific requirements made by research funders, as a condition of receipt of funding.

Theses Mandate
All theses 2008-> mandated for e-deposit on LRA
Defined by Graduate Office & Senate
Final submitted, corrected version alongside print
Definite version remains printed copy(s) in archive
Submission and copyright declaration form
Student agrees to deposit in LRA & Ethos
Assures no 3rd Party © issues
3rd party copyright issues and awareness workshops
Support for academics as much as PhD students
Two options for postponement
Temporary Moratorium allowing up to three year delay
Permanent Embargo
Alternative -> excised version on LRA

Ethos
Retrospective digitisation requests
Requirement of contacting author & signing of author license
Funded for approx 100 items a year
Tracing authors major time and throughput constraint
Access to alumni database helping
More staff time available to chase
Most requests in 2009 unfulfilled
Issues outstanding with Ethos
Variable quality scans produced
Slow response to enquiries
First requestor pays funding stream
Academic confusion between LRA and Ethos

CRIS & the LRA
REF Preparation WG
Moves to integrate LRA & RED
Technical and political challenges
Post-CRIS implementation
Role and integration of LRA
Merge, subsume, satellite or replace
Pan-institution information systems collaboration
Media contacts, consultancy and personal web spaces

Closing Thoughts

Gareth J Johnson, DS&R Manager
gjj6@le.ac.ukextn 2039
Valérie, Margaret & Claire, LRA Administrators
lra@le.ac.uk/ethesis@le.ac.ukextn 2039
LRA sites
Contacts
Open access & the LRA
www.le.ac.uk/li/lra
LRA Repository Site
lra.le.ac.uk

The Stars My Destination

by Gaz Johnson on Feb 22, 2010

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