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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES
Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright OfficerPresident of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) Chair of the LERU (League of European Research Universities) community of Chief Information Officers
e-mail: [email protected]
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Open Access in context Benefits of Open Access Routes towards Open Access Case Study: UK policy developments Future developments Conclusion
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Open Access in context
Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions See http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Idea of Open Access is not new; the first major international statement on Open Access was set out in the Declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2002 See http://www.soros.org/openaccess/view.cfm
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Open Access in context
Open Access is one element in a
broader landscape of Open Scholarship and
Knowledge, which could rapidly change the
way research is undertaken and communicated globally Universities leading these changes will be well-placed to
attract the best researchers and students, and show how they contribute to the growing European knowledge economy and society
Saint Jerome in his Study, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480. Church of Ognissanti, Florence
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Open Access in context Benefits of Open Access Routes towards Open Access Case Study: UK policy developments Future developments Conclusion
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Benefits of Open Access
Authors of academic works enjoy increased visibility, usage and impact when research outputs are made in OA See aggregations of studies on the Open Access impact
advantage: Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date, ECS EPrints, 17 Feb 2010
Researchers in developing countries rank access to the research literature as one of their most pressing problems. By making work available in Open Access, researchers are helping to create a global knowledge commons so that all may benefit
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Benefits of Open Access
A university’s mission is to create knowledge and to disseminate it; Open Access may help universities to fulfil this mission. Having university research open and showcased to the world potentially boosts a university’s profile and enables the uptake and use of the fruits of research effort funded for the benefit of Society
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Routes towards Open Access
Green route has been defined as the route where copies of peer-reviewed research outputs are made freely available on the web, using an Open Access repository, alongside any formal published versions
Gold route has been defined as journal publishing operating with a business model not based on subscription, but rather on either publication charges (where the author or an organization on behalf of the author funds the publishing costs) or on subsidy
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Progress along the Green route in Portugal
1086 repositories in
Europe 43 repositories in
Portugal 37 universities and
polytechnics
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Content Types in Repositories - Portugal
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Research Theses
DART-Europe portal is premier European portal for discovery of research theses
On 1 June 2013, portal gave access to Access to 417,401 open access research theses from 536 universities in 27 European countries
5,025 theses from Portugal
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Portuguese presence in DART-Europe
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University No. of theses via DART-Europe
Universidade do Minho 1167
University of Porto 3858
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See http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/ Report to Department of Business, Innovation and Skills UCL responses See http://poynder.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/finch-report-
in-global-open-access.html and http://poynder.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/finch-report-ucls-david-price-responds.html
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Finch Recommendations
Gold Open Access is the future UK produces 6% of world’s global research output For an extra £38 million to UK HE, UK research outputs
could be published as Gold OA research outputs Green OA would be for grey literature, theses
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What does the future look like?
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For an individual institutional policy, as things stand, Green is the only affordable and practical option
JISC Report by John Houghton and Alma Swan - Going for Gold?
– see http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/610
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RCUK – Research Councils UK policy
RCUK policy forged in the wake of protests against Finch See http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/outputs.aspx
RCUK policy supports both ‘Gold’ and ‘Green’ routes to Open Access
RCUK has a preference for immediate, unrestricted, on‐line access to peer‐reviewed and published research papers, free of any access charge and with maximum opportunities for re‐use. This is commonly referred to as the ‘gold’ route to Open Access
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Impact of RCUK policy
Issue with RCUK policy is that it is not fully funded… ‘The amount of funding provided by RCUK to support Open
Access in years 1 and 2 is based on an estimate of the likely costs’
UCL is making available considerable additional monies, c. £2 million a year recurrent in the Library, to implement the policy
These monies are being taken from the research budget RCUK monitoring implementation in 2014, 2016 and
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OA availability
Total OA share
20.4% OA distribution Highest in Earth
Sciences Lowest in
Chemistry
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Bo-Christer Björk, Patrik Welling, Mikael Laakso, Peter Majlender, Turid Hedlund, and Guðni Guðnason: Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009PLoS One. 2010; 5(6): e11273. . Published online 2010 June 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011273
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Most downloaded items from UCL Discovery 2012
5 of top 10 are PhD theses
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Monograph publishing in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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See http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/loss-making-monographs-face-a-grim-future/story-e6frgcjx-1226246679624
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Open Monographs
UCL Press Imprint repatriated by UCL from being licensed to third party UCL Press Manager currently being recruited
OA Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences will focus
New OA journals Open Journal Systems and Open Monograph Press to be used as
publication tools
Discussion with 19 European universities to create shared infrastructures
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What could be achieve?
PROJECTED OUTPUTS
Shared publishing infrastructure Shared by 19 partners Scaleable to all European Universities Advocacy for new solutions to solve monograph crisis
Marketing frameworks
Business Modelling activities
At least 180 OA monographs in 35 series
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Progress in OA
Discussion and consultation Green, not yet Gold, is best immediate
future for OA progress Roadmap needed to plot the journey
See http://www.leru.org/files/publications/LERU_AP8_Open_Access.pdf
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