Slides used as for an Introductory session to Open Research Online - January 2021

1. Introduction to Open Research
Online (ORO)
The OU's research publications
repository

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What is ORO trying to do? A complete
record of research publications by OU
Researchers
What is ORO trying to do? An Open
Access platform for all OU research
publications
Using ORO
Adding and updating an item in ORO
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3. 1. What is ORO trying to do?
ORO attempts to be a
complete record of research
publications by OU
researchers

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OU Researchers
Open Research Online
•Research Contracted staff
•Research Students
•Visiting research staff, emeritus
•Academic related staff
•Not Associate Lecturers, at the moment

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Publications
Open Research Online
•Journal articles
•Books
•Edited books
•Book chapters
•Conference items, presentations, posters
•Reports
•Theses
•…more

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Deposit
Open Research Online
•Self deposit
•Mediated deposit

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Open Research Online

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Demo 2.
People Profiles
Profiles

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Research Groups

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EThOS

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Library Search

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Google

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Google

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Google Scholar

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Google Scholar

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Google Scholar

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ORO Users from Google Analytics 2021
Open Research Online
790,695sessions
1,307,239pageviews
653,544users

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Open Research Online
ORO Users from Google Analytics 2021

19. 2. What is ORO Trying to Do?
ORO attempts to be an Open
Access platform for all OU
research publications

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Open Access

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Open Access in ORO 2021

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ORO Downloads from IRUS
Open Research Online
835,171downloads

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Funder Requirements
OPEN RESEARCH ONLINE
REF 2021 requirements (ongoing
for now)
• Gold Open Access
• Green Open Access (12 or 24 month
embargo & CC BY-NC-ND Licence or
equivalent)

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Funder Requirements
OPEN RESEARCH ONLINE
UKRI Requirements (Post April
2022)
• Gold Open Access (Fully Open
Access title, or hybrid title in a
transitional agreement; CC BY
Licence)
• Green Open Access (zero embargo;
CC BY Licence)

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Broken Access

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Open Access Browser Extensions

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Open Access Browser Extensions

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Open Access in Web of Science

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ORO Access

30. 3. Using ORO
Adding an item to ORO & updating an item