open access and repository developments alma swan key perspectives ltd truro, uk
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Open access and repository developments
Alma Swan
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Truro, UK
Plenty of P-words!
Principles Places Participation Policies
Pulling Purposes Plans Patterns
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Principles
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Open Access: What is it? Online Immediate Free (non-restricted) Free (gratis) To the scholarly literature that
authors give away Permanent
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Open Access: Who benefits?
Benefits to researchers themselves Benefits to institutions Benefits to national economies Benefits to science and society
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Open Access: How?
Open Access journals (www.doaj.org)
Open Access repositories (author ‘self-archiving’)
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Places
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Open Access repositories
Interoperable – worldwide database of research
circa 800 worldwide and growing at an average of 1 per day
Growth of content is rather less encouraging
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Universal archives
OARA: Peter Suber’s venture with the Internet Archive
Google Base Tampere University has opened its own
archive (Tampub) to ‘all scholars’ UK universal archive being built in
Edinburgh and funded by JISC
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Participation(by users)
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Usage stories UoC’s eScholarship repository has now
logged 2 million downloads 2 years - 0.5m 1 year – 1m 9mths – 2m 10K records at end 2005
University of Otago Business School Launched mid-November 20K downloads by mid-February 220 articles!
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Policies
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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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Mandates
In 5 institutions More on the way From 5 funders More on the way…
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USA
NIH: Strengthening now very likely
Require not request
6 months rather than 12 CURES: 6-month delay permitted but…
deposit at acceptance (in PMC) FRPAA: All research funded by the
largest agencies
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UK
Wellcome Trust ($750m) Research Councils UK
4 out of 8 have a mandate and 1 has a strong encouragement
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Pulling
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Finding OA stuff
OA search engines, e.g. OAIster National-level search services, e.g.
DAREnet (Netherlands) and ARROW (Australia)
Internet search engines, e.g. Google Scholar, Microsoft Live Academic
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Purposes
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Research assessment
Bronze release of EPrints and DSpace for RAE (IRRA project)
(N.B. UK Research Assessment Exercise will from now on be based on ‘metrics’)
Developments in usage statistics reporting
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Plans for repositories
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Linking UK repositories User requirements – what
services are needed? Roles and responsibilities
involved Technical architecture Business models
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Services built onto repositories
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Services built onto repositories
Patterns for repositories
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Purdue University’s model
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Thank you for listening
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