open access and research by josh brown
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Open Access and research by Josh Brown, JISC programme manager from the Research Information Management. This was presented at IRMW12TRANSCRIPT
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OA and Research InformationJosh Brown
Programme Manager for Research Information Management and
Scholarly Communications.
OA and Research Information
Open Access requires better information about research
»How can you measure mandate compliance without funder attribution?
»How can you create an audit trail from grant funding to publication?
Open Access ultimately aims to improve research
» Increased access increases the efficiency of research
» Increased access increases the speed of dissemination
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The Open Access Implementation Group has two priority areas this year
»Policy, e.g. the Finch Group on expanding access to UK research or the RCUK draft OA policy
»Operational, e.g. interoperability for OA or tracking OA outputs
And one significant area of work is tracking progress towards OA
»Deposit rates
»Gold OA publication
»Creation of OA publication funds in institutions…slide 315/06/2012
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Both areas of OAIG attention require more, and better information
»Policy work requires evidence of success or failure
»The policies proposed will require information that may not be recorded or collected systematically at present
»Operational work all hinges on specific information, consistently available across HEIs, publishers and funders
»Contextual information is increasing in value
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We need to support the increase in research information
»More information about funding, linked to publications (e.g. RIO+)http://bit.ly/tPee5l
»Easier reporting from existing systems (e.g. CiA)http://cerifinaction.wordpress.com/
»Help institutions to gather the right evidence of impact (e.g. DESCRIBE)
http://bit.ly/ME0Fgk
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Projects and systems can help reduce the administrative burden of collecting and analysing more, and new, information
Standards (such as CERIF) can help to improve interoperability within and across institutions
More efficient (re)use of information saves time and money
OA saves a lot of time and a lot of money
»But is this really just about more and better admin?
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The benefits of OA to research and researchers go beyond citations
The benefits of OA to institutions go beyond cost savings
The benefits of OA to funders go beyond accountability
»A key plank of OAIG’s policy work has been building up evidence to support its stance
»This includes financial modelling, original research and synthesis
»One area where the evidence is very strong is impact
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The context of the OA Impact Bias:
»RCUK define impact as: “the demonstrable contribution that excellent research makes to society and the economy. Impact embraces all the extremely diverse ways in which research-related knowledge and skills benefit individual, organisations and nations by:
• fostering global economic performance, and specifically the economic competitiveness of the United Kingdom; • increasing the effectiveness of public services and policy; • enhancing quality of life, health and creative output.”
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/kei/impacts/Pages/meanbyimpact.aspx
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The context of the OA Impact Bias:
»CIBER, based on the Labour Force Survey, estimate that there are 1.8 million knowledge workers outside HE in the UK
Knowledge workers outside HE typically
»do not have subscriptions to academic journals
»do not have time to visit academic libraries
»have neither the will nor the budget to use PPV
CIBER (2011a) Access to scholarly content: gaps and barriers. Research report, p7.
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Evidence for the OA impact bias:
»57% of knowledge workers believe access to research has improved, despite their lack of subscriptions, ‘big deals’ or library access
»More Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations use OA journals than hold subscriptions
»≈80% of published journal articles are subscription-only
The ≈20% of published research articles available via OA has a disproportionately large impact
http://open-access.org.uk/reports
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Knowledge workers prefer OA
»OA already saves the public sector beyond HE £26m pa.
»Working around paywalls is time consuming and costly for SMEs and is seen as a significant problem
»OA makes it easier to identify expertise in institutions
»OA is consistent with the need of the public and VC sectors for transparency and evidence
»Knowledge workers overwhelmingly prefer increased OA to all other proposed means of improving access to research
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What does this mean for research information management?
»Link information from disparate sources
»Report more, share more
»A wealth of new information is becoming relevant and easier to capture
In a world in which richer, multi-sourced information is crucial, context is king.
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How can the context be provided?
»We need to be able to identify our researchershttp://bit.ly/JYjwUh
»We need to make reporting as streamlined and efficient as possible
http://ukriss.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/
»We need to reuse our information better, e.g. RMAS, Gateway to Research
What does this mean for repositories?
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More information, more access, more value:
»Repositories must become more embedded, more linked to CRISs etc.
»Repositories must seek to capture more information and enhance metadata
»Repositories must emphasise their role in OA now, and loud and clear
»Repositories must continue to evolve and adapt.
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© HEFCE 2012
The Higher Education Funding Council for England,
on behalf of JISC, permits reuse of this presentation
and its contents under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK
England & Wales Licence.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk
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