You might have heard about Dr. Ken Welch Jr.'s research on vampire bats fuelling their activity with blood protein and have seen the bat running on a treadmill video. This article has been listed in the Royal Society's top 10 most popular articles of 2024, and in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetrics.
To ensure that future generations continued to have open access to this research publication, the Biological Sciences Liaison Librarian, Sarah Shujah, reached out to Professor Ken Welch Jr. to discuss how the library could support preservation and discovery of his research through TSpace. TSpace is a free and secure research repository established by University of Toronto Libraries to preserve and share the scholarly record of University of Toronto. All items in TSpace are openly accessible, either immediately or after a publisher's embargo period.
Why submit to TSpace?
"TSpace is totally free, allowing my lab to focus our research dollars on the science! It’s backed by U of T, so you know the paper is safe and will be reliably available, free of charge, in the future.” -- Ken Welch Jr.
Works in TSpace benefit from priority search engine indexing meaning they can be easily discovered in Google. Also, authors benefit themselves and the research community by increasing the visibility and readership of their work. For Dr. Welch, archiving the paper in TSpace also ensures he satisfies his funder’s open access requirements since this research article resulted from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) funded research.
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The U of T Scarborough Library is here to support you in making your outputs open and discoverable, and preserved.
Reach out to your Liaison Librarian to learn how you can get started with making your own research openly available for the long term.