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Open Access: why we should have it, what works and what doesn’t
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
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Institutionally-based repositories
700+ Half are institutional or
departmental Growth of 1 per day, but… Average number of postprints
is 297!
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Why Open Access
Greater impact from scientific endeavour More rapid and more efficient progress of
science Better assessment, better monitoring,
better management of science Novel information-creation using new and
advanced technologies
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Why researchers publish their work
0 20 40 60 80 100
% respondents
Communicate results to peers
Advance career
Personal prestige
Gain funding
Financial reward
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Open Access increases citations
0 50 100 150 200 250
% increase in citations with Open Access
BiologyEconomics
Political SciHealth SciBusiness
EducationManagement
LawPsychology
SociologyPhysics
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Range = 36%-200%(Data: Stevan Harnad and co-workers)
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Other impact studies
Lawrence 2001 (computer science) Kurtz 2004 (astronomy) Brody & Harnad 2004 (all disciplines) Antelman 2005 (philosophy, politics,
electrical & electronic engineering, mathematics)
Wren 2005 Eysenbach 2006
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This means financial impact, too
The 6th Framework Programme has a science budget of €19 billion
Losing potential 50% research impact
This means lost impact worth €9.5 billion to the European economies
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Science is faster, more efficientTime taken to be cited for articles in the arXiv database
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Navigation and analysis of science output: Citebase
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Measure usage and impact
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Follow the citing trail …
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New knowledge from old
Data-mining Text-mining (semantic Web
technologies) UK: National Text-Mining Centre Example: NeuroCommons
(www.neurocommons.org)
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Average number of articles in an institutional repository …
297!
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Author readiness to comply with a mandate
0 20 40 60 80 100
% respondents
Would complywillingly
Would complyreluctantly
Would notcomply
81%
14%
5%
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Institutions with a mandate already
University of Southampton School of Electronics & Computer Science (since 2003) (90+% compliance already)
CERN (2003) (90% compliance already) Queensland University of Technology
(2004) (40%+ compliance and growing) University of Minho, Portugal (2005) NIT (Mumbai), and others on the way …
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Funder policies and mandates Policies:
An almost-mandate from the DFG Exhortations and encouragements from public
research funders in Finland, USA Proposed mandates : public funders
(Canada, Australia, S.Africa, Ukraine, USA and EU)
First real mandate from private funder (Wellcome Trust)
National-level mandates from RCUK (Research Councils UK)
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Council Policy Require Request Which version
OAJs
AHRC End 2006
BBSRC
?
CCLRC
Depends on
publisher
EPSRC 2008
ESRC ?(‘should’)
Depends on
publisher
Can use grant
moneyMRC
? Include in
grant bid
NERC a.s.a.p.
PPARC
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Why Open Access
Greater impact from scientific endeavour More rapid and more efficient progress of
science Better assessment, better monitoring,
better management of science Novel information-creation using new and
advanced technologies
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