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Welcome to the Open Access Repository World!

University of Glamorgan, 22nd May 2008

Peter MillingtonSHERPA Technical Development Officer

SHERPA, University of Nottinghampeter.millington@nottingham.ac.uk

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Repositories in OpenDOAR

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Repository Types

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Growth of OpenDOAR Database

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Growth of Repository Content

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Why?• Administrative spin-off?

– Publications lists & research assessment– E-theses within the examination process

• Reducing costs?– Subscription costs– Interlibrary loan costs

• Moral campaign to reclaim copyright?• Because research funders tell us to?• Because they benefit us?

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Scholarly Publishers - The Paradox

• Meant to facilitate research dissemination– Journals and books– Editorial and peer-review mediation

• But also set up barriers to dissemination– Publishing timescales– Copyright transfer– Gated online access– Subscription costs

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Some Journal Prices (Dec.2007)

• Nature– $2,730 p.a.

• Journal of the American Chemical Society– $4,008 p.a.

• Physical Review Letters (APS)– $3,245 to $5,325 p.a.

• Brain Research (Elsevier)– €19,387 ($28,516) p.a.

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Who is affected?

• Institutions in the developing world

• Unaffiliated researchers

• Smaller HE institutions

• Large research-led institutions

• Research funding agencies

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Pressure for Change

• Reclaiming authors’ copyright– Open Access repositories

• Research Funders’ OA mandates– http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/

• Open Access journals and books– http://www.doaj.org/

• Subscription cancellations– Cost issues

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Scholarly Publishers’ Reponses

• Returning rights to authors– http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

• Complying with funders’ OA mandates– Or lose papers by funded authors

• Introducing “hybrid” journals– Authors pay for open access– Fees reimbursed by funders

• Reducing subscription costs

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What will scholarly publishing look like in the future?

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Benefits of OA Repositories

• Wider readership– No access barriers

• No subscription or other costs

– Available anywhere• Home, internet cafés, developing world, etc.

– Indexing by popular search engines• Google, Yahoo!, etc.

– Specialist OA search engines• OpenDOAR, ROAR, OAIster

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Benefits of OA Repositories

• Higher citation rates?– Initial positive indicators - to be confirmed– Similar long-term citation levels?– Earlier citation?

• Faster dissemination– Repositories accept pre-print versions

• Working and/or accepted peer-reviewed drafts

– Up to two years before official publication

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Further Information

• SHERPA – information on open access– http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

• Repositories Support Project– http://www.rsp.ac.uk/

• OpenDOAR – Directory of OA repositories– http://www.opendoar.org/

• ROAR – Registry of OA repositories– http://roar.eprints.org/

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Any questions?

Peter Millingtonpeter.millington@nottingham.ac.uk