Make all research available through Open Access repositories

“Updating the repository with our full-text publications is definitely worth the effort.”

Nowadays, when colleagues ask us about our publications, we direct them to our page in RePub. Looking at the increasing number of downloads and citations we are obtaining, updating the repository with our full-text publications is definitely worth the effort. However, this takes quite some effort as I am the research co-ordinator of our group – having the responsibility to submit all of our publications. It currently takes me a fair share of the month of January to urge my colleagues to send their final author versions of the publications from the previous year.

What would save me time is if the repository would already contain references and links to all our publications – including those from commercial publishers – where we would only have to add our final author versions. I would also like to see different university research information systems sharing information to prevent us from having to enter the same information several times.

I’d like to add that what also motivates us to deposit green are the new repository graphics that display the number of publication downloads, where the downloads come from, etc. We are also looking forward to other services such as the professional-looking final author version from MS-Word files.