University of Leicester Figshare Research Archive in numbers

The University of Leicester is celebrating International Open Access Week 2020: ‘Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion’. Today we would like to focus on the research outputs deposited in the institutional repository and their dissemination and reach to a global audience.

The University of Leicester was the first UK HEI institution to go out for tender and procure a single solution for joined research data and publications repository in 2017, which was fully launched and operational in November 2019. Since then we had over 1,5m views and over 1.1m downloads for both data and publications.

The vast majority of deposited items are journal articles followed by theses, conference contributions and datasets.

Even though the journal articles are the majority of items deposited, the 'Top 10' accessed items (over the past year) consists of 4 theses, 3 reports, 2 datasets and a book chapter:

1. School Visits Post-lockdown: The Role of Digital. A Survey Report

2. Online Sex Work in the 21st Century

3. An investigation of differentiation between Cornwall and Devon based on history, surnames, and Y-chromosomes

4. Decentring the Museum: Examining Young People’s Perceptions and Experiences from a Sociocultural Perspective

5. Aquí y allá/Here and there: La calle-lo público/The streets-the public

6. Becoming a Change-Maker in Museums: Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges - Reflections on the Museums Association's Transformers Workforce Development Initiative.

7. Clinical level agent-based model of pathological airway remodeling in asthma

8. Carbonates on mars

9. Commercial Galleries in Copenhagen, London and Reykjavík: a comparative study of the formations, contexts and interactions of galleries founded between 1985 and 2002

10. Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Saudi Arabia

The UoL repository has a truly global reach with top 5 countries accessing our research being:

Country name	Views Count
United States	1163099
China	73071
United Kingdom	51242
Canada	49290
Russia	43293

We are encouraging you to explore the content of the Figshare@Leicester and also deposit your work to gain a worldwide reach. Please remember the publications (i.e. journal articles, conference proceedings, books and chapters) should be submitted via IRIS and all research data underpinning your research and/or publications via Figshare interface.

Figshare at Leicester upload competition

Figshare is the platform for our institutional research archive and we encourage you to deposit your data (via our figshare platform) or publications (through IRIS) for a chance to win one of five £100 Amazon vouchers. In order to qualify as valid entry the deposits must be made between 12am BST on 19th of October until 11:59pm BST on 25th of October.

OA Week: virtual drop-in

Please join us on Friday 23rd October 11:00-11:45 for our Ask the Library Open Access team event.

This is your opportunity to ask questions about open access funding arrangements, transformative publishing agreements we have signed, OA requirements of research funders, Plan S, Wellcome Trust open research requirements, or anything else related to open access and open data.

We encourage you to submit your question in advance. No registration required, feel free to join us in Teams. We look forward to hearing from you.

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