The Research Services Team in the Library have a new member of staff

Dr Leigh Stork, Open Access & Research Repository Specialist,  joins us from Imperial College London with a wealth of experience in managing many aspects of Open Access. Leigh, along with Malcolm Horne and Ammar Wahid, will be pushing forward the ‘open science’ agenda at Aston. An important element of this is to increase the success rate of Green Open Access. Aston researchers, whether corresponding authors or co-authors, should:

·         Always deposit your Author Accepted Manuscript/Final Peer-Reviewed Draft of upcoming journal articles and conference papers into Pure on or very soon after acceptance (within three months max.)

·         Add your past and other publications to Pure

·         Upload datasets to Aston Data Explorer and add a dataset DOI to your paper (as applicable)

Doing this in all cases meets strict funder requirements (e.g. RCUK and EU) and helps us prepare for the selection process for REF 2021. Of course, additional benefits are increased impact and citation rates, appearance in altmetrics, and interlinking with your School webpages. ORCiD can help too in ensuring that all your publications and grants are linked to your profile, so we encourage you to add your ORCiD ID to Pure as well.

For further information, please see/contact:

• Open Access LibGuide; openaccess@aston.ac.uk
• PURE Guidance (Intranet)
• Research Data Management LibGuide; researchdata@aston.ac.uk
• Researcher Profiles LibGuide