RaY - a place to show off your research

You can find out more about RaY, which is the York St John research repository, on the ILS website. It is the place where PhD theses from here will be stored and made available, now we have research degree awarding powers. Furthermore, it is where nearly all research outputs (journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and lots more) for any academic at the University will need to be stored from 2016 onwards, if they want it to be eligible for the next REF.

Just last week, we enabled a new feature on RaY. This allows you to interrogate the statistics linked to the research in RaY. So, you could look up the number of hits that a particular piece of research has received, and when those hits occurred.

If you are interested in finding out more about how RaY works, or the open access policies which underlie the introduction of institutional repositories, please ask us! Your Academic Liaison Librarian will be happy to talk it through with you.  Also, there is a general introduction to Open Access run by Clare McCluskey Dean (one of the ALLs) in DG120 on Thursday 9 July, 3.00-3.30pm.