Open Access and Current Developments

School of Law16th May 2012

Bill HubbardHead of Centre for Research Communications

Open Access

• What is Open Access?• Open Access Publishing• Open Access Repositories• Institutional repositories• Concerns about Open Access • National developments• Support in the University• Questions

Open Access

• Open Access - definitions– Open Access Journals– Open Access Repositories– Open Access . . . and open access . . . .

• Two routes using open access, but to slightly different destinations

Publishing - changes and new approaches• Open Access Publishing

– Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ•7,731 journals in the directory• Currently 3,764 searchable journals•801,501 articles accessible

• All major publishers involved• Hybrid journals

– double dipping?

• Overlay journals - & decoupled publishing services

Rise of repositories

• Open Access Repositories• Directory of Open Access Repositories -

OpenDOAR– www.opendoar.org – currently 2,170 open access repositories– started registration in 2006 . . .

Repositories around the world

Capitalising on repositories

• Open Access– Greater availability and wider readership– Increased citations– New contacts and research possibilities

• Information management• REF and evaluation• As resource for academic services• Support for new forms and systems of

research communication and collaboration

Institutional repositories

• Institutional or subject-based – difference largely irrelevant– OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and

access across repositories– subject-based portals or views

• Practical reasons for institutional approach– use institutional infrastructure - storage and

sustainability– integration into work-flows and systems – support is close to academic users and

contributors– support departmental websites

Current deposits in Law

bartlett "sex dementia capacity“

137 Results to this paper

No 1 - Nottingham ePrints

From school web page?

Does not appear . . .

bartlett "Mental health law in the community: thinking about Africa“

62 Results to this paper

No 1 - Nottingham ePrints

From school web page?

Does not appear . . .

bartlett "'The necessity must be convincingly shown to exist': standards for “

50 Results to this paper

No 2 - Nottingham ePrints

From school web page?

Does not appear . . .

Repositories in Russell &1994 Groups • University of Bath• Birkbeck• University of Birmingham• University of Bristol• University of Cambridge• Cardiff University• University of Durham• University of East Anglia• University of Edinburgh• University of Essex• University of Exeter• University of Glasgow• Goldsmiths

• Queen’s University• University of Reading• Royal Holloway• University of St Andrews• University of Sheffield• SOAS• University of Southampton• University of Surrey• University of Sussex• University of Warwick• UCL• University of York

• Imperial College• King's College London• Lancaster University• University of Leeds• University of Leicester• University of Liverpool• Loughborough University• LSE• University of Manchester• University of Newcastle• University of Nottingham• University of Oxford• Queen Mary

• and 22/23 University Alliance: 20/26 MillionPlus universities

• effective coverage of the UK HE research base . . .

Comparing use of institutional repository• LSE - 2,115• UCL - 2,170• Oxford - 68 (more in separate repositories)

• Nottingham - 8• Durham - 562• Cambridge - 24 (more in separate repositories)

• Cardiff - 434• Kent - 1,110• QUB - (restructuring repository)

Common concerns and issues

• Does more access=more plagiarism? • No. It makes it easier to detect

• Does OA affect peer-review? • No. OA does not touch the peer-review

process

• Copyright • In most cases, not a restriction

Academic Spring

HE Sector Developments

• David Willetts: “The Coalition is committed to the principle of public access to publicly-funded research results. “

• Finch Committee• Houghton Report• Funding mandates• Price rises in journals many times rate of

inflation• Publishers stifling new forms of research use• “Academic Spring”• Institutional policies

Open Access Policy - excerpts

• Applies to all members of staff• All research papers . . . where copyright

allows, should be deposited in the Nottingham ePrints repository upon publication or as soon as possible thereafter.

• Where available, researchers should . . . publish their work in an open access form offered by journal publishers, and can make use of research grants and/or the central Open Access publication fund, in order to pay open access publication fees.

Open Access Support in Nottingham

Using the Institutional Repository

http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/

Using the Central Fund

• Fund set up in November 2006• Open to all members of staff• Administered by Research Graduate Services• Contact jacqueline.anderson@nottingham.ac.uk

• The title of your article, publisher and Journal• The funder of the research• Relevant grant number, start/end date of the

grant• PI names to which the publication relates• Proof of publication costs (copy invoice, email)

Claimants

• Claimants predominantly from Medical and Life Sciences areas

• Data current at end of 09/10 academic session

Questions?

• Bill Hubbard• Head of Centre for Research

Communications

• bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk