NEW CONTENT – Just before Christmas the repository team completed the task of adding the 2008 RAE data to Bradford Scholars. The University’s research repository now hosts nearly 1,800 entries with associated digital objects ranging from journal articles and book chapters to conference and working papers. The bibliographic records from the 2008 RAE return add another 1,300 fully searchable entries to our growing repository.
OPEN ACCESS TO BRADFORD RESEARCH – All content in Bradford Scholars is openly accessible to web users via any search engine or directly on the repository site. Staff wishing to view their own entries may do so without registering as contributors. However, we welcome all staff to register in order to add their papers to the online repository. Registration is quick and simple via the repository homepage (http://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/) and the depositing process only takes a few minutes.
GET REGISTERED AND INCREASE YOUR RESEARCH IMPACT – Many of the 2008 RAE entries in Bradford Scholars do not yet include the full text articles or book chapters etc. Although each repository entry carries a link to the original published versions where available we invite researchers to send us these papers to lib-webadmin@bradford.ac.uk for inclusion in the repository. An openly accessibly research paper in Bradford Scholars enhances access to and removes barriers from research by providing toll-free routes to peer-reviewed scholarship.
NB! – Although many publishers permit the use of full text articles and other published research in open access repositories, we may still only be able to use your final author drafts and NOT the published PDFs. This is not a problem. The final author draft is the version that has been peer-reviewed, alterations made and accepted for publishing. The intellectual content is the same as in the final published PDF but the author version will not carry the formatting of the published PDF. These are the papers we would like authors to forward to the repository team. To view the copyright conditions of your publisher visit http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ or http://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/.
For more information on Bradford Scholars visit http://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/ or email the repository team at lib-webadmin@bradford.ac.uk.
The most downloaded three papers in Bradford Scholars at present:
1) Boot, J.C. “Design of cylindrical plastic pipe linings to resist buckling due to collapse pressures”
2) Pinder, D. “Coin: the missing currency in peace support operations and beyond”
http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2320
3) Sheriff, R., Chan, P.M.L. et al. “Ubiquitous Internet in an integrated satellite-terrestrial environment: The SUITED solution”
http://hdl.handle.net/10454/463
