I have so many questions about sharing my research...
That's OK because the UCI Libraries have so many answers!
Open Access (OA) refers to "the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment" (SPARC). When share you make your research Open Access, everyone in the world can freely benefit from it (no pesky paywalls)!
The UC System has two OA Policies that cover you if you write scholarly research while you're employed at UC or a graduate student at UC. These policies mean that UC has the right to make your research openly available, via eScholarship (more on that below).
Depending on the publisher, your research may or may not be made Openly Accessible (OA), so you should also put your accepted manuscript (e.g. a paper without the publisher's fancy formatting) into eScholarship. This is the OA repository and publishing platform for the UC System, where researchers deposit their work in support of the UC System's OA policies. eScholarship is a green OA repository.
eScholarship lets you share articles, books, journals, working papers, conference proceedings, etc. It's organized by Campus and then Research Unit. Here's the Economics page for UCI.
UCI's expert librarians from our Digital Scholarship Services department can help you manage and share your data. For example, they can guide you through the resources in UC3, i.e. the University of California Curation Center, which helps researchers manage, preserve, and provide access to their important digital assets. Tools and services include:
First, you'll need to get a bar code tattooed on your neck...(kidding!) OK, maybe it is a little bit like that. If you want people to find your research, even if your name changes or you have a popular name, then you need to get a unique identifier for yourself.
ORCID
Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized."
Researcher ID
Create a unique identifier that can be linked to your ORCID identifier. ResearcherID is from Thomson Reuters, which also provides the Web of Science database. WoS is a comprehensive research index, with access to bibliographic and citation information across all academic disciplines.
Google Scholar Citations Profile
Provides a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. Authors can make their profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name
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Web of Science It uses citation data drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. Includes both the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
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Journal Citation Reports It uses citation data drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. Includes both the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) There is a 1-year lag. Each annual release provides the prior year's data.
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What does it all mean?
Scholarship is a conversation, and you want your voice to be heard! The resources in these tabs help ALL researchers in the UC system (faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergrads), participate in scholarly communication.
About UC Open Access
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UC OA Policies
These policies mean that research from the 10 UC campuses will be made available to the public at no charge.
2015: The UC Office of the President issues a policy covering UC employees who are not Academic Senate faculty
2013: The UC Academic Senate passed an OA Policy covering Senate-represented faculty.
UC System: Copyright Guide
An easy-to-use guide by the UC Regents to help you quickly understand copyright policies and laws, and how to apply them to academic and scholarly work.
eScholarship
This the UC System's OA repository and publishing platform, where researchers deposit their work in support of the policies. It allows for publishing Books, Journals, Working Papers, Conference Proceedings, etc.
Manage Data
UC3
The University of California Curation Center helps researchers and the UC libraries manage, preserve, and provide access to their important digital assets. Tools/services include:
ICPSR Data Archive
Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. International group of 750+ academic institutions and research organizations. Maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social sciences, and offers data curation services.
IQSS Dataverse Network
From the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard , a source for depositing research data. Visit the UCI Social Science Data Archives on DataVerse.
RunMyCode
A cloud-based platform that enables scientists to openly share the code and data that underlie their research publications. Researchers create a companion website associated with a paper. The companion website provides the code and data that allow people to implement the methodology and replicate the results. Welcomes multiple research areas including social sciences.
What can I access? - PublicAccess is generally available to all users. Registration or account creation might be required to access. For commercial websites, the UCI Libraries do not offer premium memberships or subscriptions.
Access is available to all users ON the UCI campus and at GML. OFF campus access requires Authorized Affiliates to log into the VPN with their active UCInetID and password. Authorized Affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password, i.e. current UCI students, faculty, and staff.
Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized Affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password, i.e. current UCI students, faculty, and staff.
The resources are limited to select UCI populations, based on the user’s status, e.g. current UCI Faculty or PhD students. Please refer to the UCI Libraries for access instructions. Examples for why content may be limited include: a vendor set restrictions on who may access their information; alternatively, information may be sensitive, identifying, or embargoed;
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