Faculty Profile: Dr. Gareth H. McKinley

The Project: Dr. Gareth McKinley’s Non-Newtonian Fluid Research Group in the Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Challenge: Archive and distribute the lab’s preprint series
The Solution: DSpace at MIT

Dr. Gareth H. McKinley, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, chose DSpace as an archive for his preprints and for its potential as a distribution mechanism for his research on fluid dynamics.

As at many of MIT’s labs and centers, Dr. Gareth McKinley and his Non-Newtonian Fluid Research Group in the Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory produce preprints they would like to distribute to the scientific community.

After reading about DSpace in TechTalk, McKinley realized he could archive and distribute preprints without having to build and maintain separate Web sites.

With a simple web-based interface, DSpace enables McKinley and members of his lab to manage this growing collection. Acknowledging that “faculty are very busy beasts” McKinley adds that DSpace is a “relatively easy” solution to MIT faculty’s digital archiving needs.

Visit Dr. McKinley's lab at web.mit.edu/fluids/www/ and the DSpace service at https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6749.

Dr. Gareth McKinley directs the Non-Newtonian Fluid (NNF) Research Group in the Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.