Open Access and Nottingham’s Repository

Computer Science Meeting1 July 2010

Bill HubbardHead of Centre for Research Communications

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

– DOAJ•5,140 journals in the directory• Currently 2,122 searchable journals•412,665 articles accessible

• Springer recently launched 12 new OA journals

• Hybrid journals• Overlay journals - & decoupled publishing

services

Rise of repositories

• Open Access Repositories• Directory of Open Access Repositories -

OpenDOAR– www.opendoar.org – over 1696 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 largely irrelevant– OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and

access across repositories– subject-based portals or views– subject-based classification and search

• 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

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

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

Common concerns and issues

• Does more access=more plagiarism?• Does OA affect peer-review?• Copyright• Cultural change• Workflows• Financial processes for OA Journal fees• Sustainability of OA journals

Sector Developments

• Houghton Report– £110M savings, up to £170M benefits pa

• Funding mandates

• Institutional policies

Questions?

• Bill Hubbard• Head of Centre for Research

Communications• JISC Research Communication Strategist

• bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk

Additional -

Funder’s Requirements

What do funders require?

• Open Access to research results as a condition of funding

• Deposit in a particular repositoryand/or• Deposit in the institutional repositoryand/or• Publication in an Open Access Journal

JULIET

• JULIET introduced in 2006• Lists and analyses Funder mandates• Summarises the mandates and assists

support• 52 funders listed at present

– 51 publication policies– 21 data archiving policies– 19 open access publishing policies

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