Strategies for increasing the amount of open access content in your repository

Filling an institutional repository with publication metadata has become relatively simple. In fact, the process can almost be automated these days. But without full-text open access copies, this delivers little additional value to the authors or the institution as the same information is, in most cases, already freely available online. Significant value is added when the repository increases the number of readers for the works by providing access to open access copies. This is likely to increase the academic impact (citations) and broader impact (dissemination to and uptake by wider society) of the institution’s research. QUT’s repository (QUT ePrints) has a proven track record in providing open access research publications as evidenced by 67.5% of the repository records for works published in 2015 having open access (or temporarily embargoed) full-text available. This poster provides a snapshot of the strategies and repository services in place at QUT which are underpinning this