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Open Access to Research in the United Kingdom
Organic.Edunet Conference, BudapestJackie Wickham
Open Access AdviserCentre for Research Communications
University of Nottingham
Presentation Outline
What is open access?
UK landscape
Attitudes to OA in the UK
Role of the Repositories Support Project
What is Open Access
“Open Access (OA) means that scholarly literature is made freely available on the internet, so that it can be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, text mined, or used for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers, subject to proper attribution of authorship.”
Research Information Network, June 2010
Routes to OA - Gold
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Routes to OA - Green
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Why it’s important
Access in the developing worldIncreased readership and citation
http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla75/101-kousha-en.pdfQuicker disseminationSecure storageBetter discoverability (indexed by Google)Encourages collaboration
Permission to archive
Summary: 62% of publishers listed in RoMEO formally allow some form of self-archiving.
Repositories in the UK
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OA and agriculture research
16 universities and research centres in UKAll but one provide some form of OA• Institutional repository• Subject repository e.g. OpenFields, Organic Eprints• Web pagesCaveat –in repositories some items are
metadata only.
Mandates
Research Councils UK supports principle of OA (but does not mandate)BBSRC requires research to be deposited at
the “earliest available opportunity”.UK PubMed Central – practically all public
funded biomedical and health research has to be OA within 6 months of publication. 18 HE institutions have a mandate in the UK
(Source ROARMAP 5/08/10)
Researchers attitudes
“If your employer or research funder REQUIRED you to deposit copies of your articles in an open archive, what would be your reaction? (Response from agriculture authors)
Swan, A and Brown, S. (2005) Open Access self-archiving: An author study (Key Perspectives Limited, Cornwall, UK), http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10999/1/jisc2.pdf
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Researchers attitudes
“Open access and open source – like students of other ages, Generation Y researchers express a desire for an all-embracing, seamless accessible research information network in which restrictions to access do not restrain them. However, the annual report demonstrates that most Generation Y students do not have a clear understanding of what open access means and this negatively impacts their use of open access resources, so this is an area to be followed up in the next year.”
Researchers of tomorrow – Annual Report 2009/2010, June 2010 (JISC/British Library 3 year study)
Economic case for Open Access
Savings for HE – £115 million per year
Increased returns on investment in R & D up to £170 million
Impact agenda
Houghton et al (2009) Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models: exploring the costs and benefits http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/rpteconomicoapublishing.pdfSwan, A. (2010) Modelling scholarly communication options: Costs and benefits for universities http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/442/2/Modelling_scholarly_communication_report_final1.pdf
Repositories Support Project - Objectives
more repositories in higher education institutions in England, Wales and Northern Irelandmore content in existing repositoriesmore types of content in existing repositoriescloser integration of repositories into
institutional information systemspromotion of best practice and standardsinvestigation of the new role of institutions in
research output curation and access
What we do – information and communication
Website
Blog
Briefing papers
What we do – training, conferences
What we do
O! She doth teach the torches to burn bright
UKCoRRUK Council of Research Repositories - www.ukcorr.org
A group for repository managers by repository managersAn independent professional body to allow repository
managers to share experiences and discuss issues of common concern
To give repository managers a group voice in national discussions and policy development independent of projects or temporary initiatives
To grow together as a community and learn from each other’s experiences
Mailing list. 215 members (August 2010)
Links
Centre for Research Communications http://crc.nottingham.ac.ukRepositories Support Project www.rsp.ac.ukRoMEO www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/JULIET www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/OpenDoar www.opendoar.orgJISC www.jisc.ac.ukUKCoRR www.ukcorr.org
