About T-Space by Rea Devakos
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T-Space provides benefits to faculty such as increased visibility, citation rates, and readership of their work. It preserves faculty research by providing permanent links and access into the future without transferring copyright. Uploading work to T-Space minimizes effort for faculty while ensuring their work is discoverable through search engines and other repositories.
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- 1. Increase the impact of your research T-Space http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca
- 6. Priority ranking from search engines
- 7. 447 downloads in a year
- 9. Most journals allow authors to openly post their work http://romeo.eprints.org
- 10. Permission negotiated for this article
- 11. Control the use of your work http://creativecommons.ca/
- 12. Websites Technical reports Journal Articles Books Conference Papers
- 13. Click Play No more broken links to your work http://hdl.handle.net/1807/3029/
- 18. Ensure your work be accessible into the future
Editor's Notes
- Do you want to increase the research impact of your work?
- You can increased the visibility. readership and longevity of your work with T-Space, the University of Toronto’s research repository A service of the U of T Library, this secure and permanent repository offers worldwide access to U of T’s scholarship.
- T-Space can help make your work easily accessible to others on the Web through search services such as Google. It can preserve your work into the future, safe from loss or damage. T-Space maximizes your control over your own work. And it minimizes effort. The U of T Library provides set-up, training, upgrades, hosting and support.
- Studies have shown that readership and citation rates increase 40 to 300% for works openly posted on the Internet. T-Space can maximize your research impact by offering a number of advantages to posting on a personal or departmental page.
- Unlike personal or departmental website, materials in T-Space receive priority indexing and ranking from search engines. The underlying standards makes it easy for engines, such as Google Scholar
- Google and Scirus to find and index scholarly works. So your work will appear in the results faster and ranked higher.
- T-Space can easily showcase previously inaccessible documents. This conference paper on the Canadian opera Taptoo has been downloaded 447 times in a year.
- Each chapter of this out of print book had an average of 229 visits in a year. In contrast, the library copy only circulated once.
- Most journals now allow authors to openly post their own articles.
- Permission has been successfully sought from other jorunal and book publishers. T-Space complements traditional scholarly communication by protecting and respecting copyright. Library staff will gladly advise you.
- Copyright is NOT transferred to the library thereby maximizing your control over your work. T-Space uses the Canadian creative commons license which allows you to easily and legally stipulate the use you’d like others to make of your work and the required attribution The library is granted a non-exclusive license to distribute and preserve your materials.
- In addition to journal articles, books and conference papers, T-Space accepts a wide variety of scholarly publications such as technical reports, websites,
- Videos, datasets etc. etc. You decide what to make available. And you decide whether to limit access to the U of T or make your work accessible to anyone. In addition, T-Space provides a persistent identifier – a url that will not change ensuring that there are no more broken links to your work. The library undertakes to make your work accessible in the future.
- T-Space makes it simple to post materials on the Web. Just fill in a simple webform. You don’t have to manage a server, You don’t have to know html. You don’t need technical staff. In most cases, student or administrative assistants can completes this step. Though simple T-space provides a full suite of customizable tools, including batch loading, online peer review and ways to minimize data entry.. Organize and describe your work as you like. Library staff are here to help.
- You can link publications to your online cv or other webpages.
- You need only think of 5.25” floppies to realize that we are at risk of loosing much of today’s scholarship. And though we can’t guarantee that every obscure file type be usable, at the very minimum we will keep your files safe and authenticate them regularly. The Library’s preservation commitment varies with file type.
- In addition to the U of T, there are repositories at over 400 universities including Cambridge, Harvard, Cornell, MIT and Columbia.
- To summarize, T-Space can help make your work easily accessible to others on the Web through search engines such as Google. You retain control over your own work, while we ensure it’s visibility and longevity. The U of T Library provides set-up, training, upgrades, hosting and support, minimizing your effort
- To find out how you can showcase your scholarship or for more information, please visit us online
- To summarize, T-Space can help make your work easily accessible to others on the Web through search engines such as Google. You retain control over your own work, while we ensure it’s visibility and longevity. The U of T Library provides set-up, training, upgrades, hosting and support, minimizing your effort