Mail :: INBOX: Re: Edinburgh Research Archive INBOX Empty Trash Compose Folders Filters Options Search Help Open Folder INBOX Drafts Sent Items suspected_spam trash MyEd EdInfo MajorCool More help Address Book Logout Quota: 3.48MB / 200.00MB (1.74%) INBOX: Re: Edinburgh Research Archive (36 of 38) Move | Copy This message to ---- New Folder ---- Drafts Sent Items suspected_spam trash Delete | Reply | Reply to All | Forward | Redirect | Message Source | Save as | Print | Report as Spam Back to INBOX Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:59:13 +0000 From: Carolyn To: D Papaioannou Subject: Re: Edinburgh Research Archive This message was written in a character set other than your own. If it is not displayed correctly, click here to open it in a new window. Dear ERA Team, Professor Morris has said it is fine to do this. Regards, Carolyn On 7 Feb 2005, at 10:02, D Papaioannou wrote: > Dear Professor Morris, > > Edinburgh University Library is investigating issues concerning the > future of > scholarly communication and publishing. In particular, alongside a > number of > other research universities, we are developing an openly accessible > digital > repository of our research output. > > At Edinburgh, we have set up the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA), to > help > manage and provide access to our digital research output. ERA is > available > online at http://www.era.lib.ac.uk/ and contains peer-reviewed journal > articles, conference papers, pre-prints and e-theses. To give you an > example of > the success we have achieved with ERA, over 40,000 items were > downloaded between > April and December 2004. > > The rationale behind this initiative is to maximise our own research > impact > factor through the ideals of Open Access. The more accessible our work > is, the > more widely cited it will become. Working with Google and Yahoo, ERA > supports a > new Internet protocol, which will allow our content to be retrieved > alongside > that of other major universities and research institutes across the > world via > the internet. > > Despite our concerns about copyright, the majority of publishers > actually > support the right of academic authors to mount their work online. > Nature > Publishing is one such enlightened publisher. It is for this reason > that we > would like to include the following article by you: > > "A learning deficit related to age and beta-amyloid plaques in a mouse > model of > Alzheimer's disease" > Chen GQ, Chen KS, Knox J, Inglis J, Bernard A, Martin SJ, Justice A, > McConlogue > L, Games D, Freedman SB, Morris RGM > NATURE > 408 (6815): 975-979 DEC 21 2000 > > > With your permission we would like to legally place the full-text of > this > article online in the official Edinburgh Research Archive. You do not > need to > physically do anything as the Library offers a mediated submission > service. If > you wish to take advantage of this chance to maximise your research’s > visibility to the world, please contact me using the details at the > end of this > email. > > Many thanks in advance, > > The ERA Team > > Era.deposit@ed.ac.uk > > > > > ********************** Carolyn Smith PA/Personal Secretary to Professor Richard Morris Division of Neuroscience School of Biomedical & Clinical Laboratory Sciences The University of Edinburgh 8 Crichton Street Edinburgh EH8 9LE Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 4565 Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 4579 ********************** Delete | Reply | Reply to All | Forward | Redirect | Message Source | Save as | Print | Report as Spam Back to INBOX Move | Copy This message to ---- New Folder ---- Drafts Sent Items suspected_spam trash