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Queensland University of Technology
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“Open Access – the Advantages for a University of a Successful OA Mandate –
Some Evidence”
Open Archives and the Communication of ScienceSweden - November 2010
Professor Tom CochraneDeputy Vice-Chancellor, (Technology, Information and Learning Support)
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)Brisbane, Australia
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.1 licence (Australia)
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Queensland University of Technology
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QUT has ...7 x Faculties Built Environment and
Engineering Business Creative Industries Education Health Law Science and Technology
4 x Research institutes Heath and Biomedical
Innovation Creative Industries and
Innovation Sustainable Resources Information Security
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Open Access - a Definition
“Open access is, simply, the idea that research articles should be freely, immediately and permanently available online to anyone, rather than locked away in subscription journals as many currently are.”
Zoe Corbyn, THES, 12 November 2009.
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Cost complications in Australia – a long history
Costs of scholarly communication already high Further compounded by need to import Currencies at points of origin generally stronger
than Australian Dollar
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Open Access - Origin and Inevitability of the Concept Researcher Motivation – the ceaseless quest for
recognition and/or impact Economic Imperative - the input/output
distortions of the scholarly publishing business (the issue of moral hazard)
The Technology Enablers – the net + application
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Open Access – Journey at QUT
Watching the debates since the 90s Exploring the need to act and aligning policy with
researcher motivation Committee Process, [2003] (University Research
Committee University Academic Board)
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Institutional repository policy at QUT
http://www.mopp.qut.edu.au/F/F_01_03.jsp
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Institutional Repository Policy at QUT-11.3.2 Policy Material which represents the total publicly available research and
scholarly output of the University is to be located in the University's digital or " E print " repository, subject to the exclusions noted. In this way it contributes to a growing international corpus of refereed and other research literature available on open access, a process occurring in universities worldwide.
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Institutional Repository Policy at QUT-2
1.3.2 PolicyThe following materials must be included in QUT ePrints:
– Refereed research articles and conference papers (author’s accepted manuscript) at the post-peer review stage.
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Institutional Repository Policy at QUT-2The following materials may be included in QUT ePrints:– Refereed research articles and conference papers (submitted
manuscript) with corrigenda added following peer review if necessary– Un-refereed research literature & conference contributions, (the
accepted draft)– Books and book chapters– Theses – Creative works with a research component– Descriptions of research data and datasets
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Institutional Repository Policy at QUT-3
Materials to be commercialised, or which contain confidential material, or where the promulgation would infringe a legal commitment by the University and/or the author, will not be included in QUT ePrints.
QUT’s preference is to make materials available at the time of publication. Requests for embargos of more than twelve months must be referred to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support).
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QUT’s Institutional Repository - QUT ePrints
Established in 2003 http://eprints.qut.edu.au Focus is currently on providing open access to the ‘postprint’
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Motivating Researchers to Self-archive to the IR
Cumulative download statistics provide data on the total number of ‘additional’ readers their works have reached;
More readers = more potential citations.
Download statistics
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Motivating Researchers to Self-archive to the IR
Download data is also provided for each paper.
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Motivating Researchers to Self-archive to the IR
Repository records are highly ranked by Google
This paper was first in a result set of 577,000
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From QUT - 6 years on…..
QUT ePrints – 25,725 records (Sept 2010)– 12, 629 open access full-text
documents– Plus 1,657 mediated access /
embargoed full-text documents
– More than 2000 registered depositors 18
Repository Growth 2004-2010
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
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Global Developments ....
The rise of funder mandates The rise of institution mandates
– MIT– Harvard– Imperial College– Other universities in Australia– Many more
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Citation Impact for a Mature Researcher (QUT)
Prof. Ray Frost (chemistry) began uploading the accepted manuscript versions of his published articles to QUT ePrints in 2004;
The open access copies have been downloaded a total of 202,754 times; His annual citation rate (as measured by Scopus) increased from 265 citations in
2004 to 1760 citations in 2008. (publication rate remained stable)
Citation rate
Publication rate
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Citation impact for an early career researcher (QUT)
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Wayde Martens (chemistry) has 113 open access publications in QUT ePrints, which have been downloaded a total of 54,270 times;
His annual citation rate (as measured by Scopus) increased from 169 citations in 2006 to 600 citations in 2008.
Citation rate
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Citation impact in a different discipline
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Martin Skitmore (construction economics/surveying) has 183 open access publications in QUT ePrints, which have been downloaded a total of 202,276 times;
His annual citation rate (as measured by Scopus) increased from 38 citations in 2004 to 100 citations in 2007.
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Citation impact in a different discipline
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Luis Ferreira (transport planning) has 125 open access publications in QUT ePrints, which have been downloaded a total of 202,276 times;
His annual citation rate (as measured by Scopus) increased from 38 citations in 2004 to 100 citations in 2007.
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Comparison Citation Data
This QUT researcher (epidemiology and sexual health) has repository records for 48 of his 106 publications listed in Scopus - but only 11 have open access copies attached.
The citation pattern for 2004 to 2008 is quite different.
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More Evidence
These researchers compare the citation rates of open access articles v non-open access articles (in the same journals) using data from QUT, CERN, Southampton and Minho .
Concluded that, where subscription barriers exist, the size of the OA advantages increases with the citeability (quality) of the article.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0361
In PressPLoS ONE
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Increased Visibility“There is no doubt in my mind the ePrints will have improved things – especially in developing countries such as Malaysia .... many more access my papers who wouldn’t have thought of contacting me personally in the ‘old’ days. While this may ..... increase .... citations the most important thing ... is that at least these people can find out more about what other people have done ....”
Professor Martin Skitmore, School of Urban Design
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Connecting to Students“I’m not sure that I could say ePrints has increased my citations, but one thing that it has done is make students aware of what I’m doing outside the classroom. This is important because both undergrad and postgrad students often don’t understand what we do beside teach them. I had one student who was working at a senior level in Australia Post, and was reviewing proposals for the business to expand ... he had obviously looked at my research via ePrints .... seen that I had examined New Zealand Post’s expansion over the past ten years, and asked for a copy of my work ..... This is only a small incident, but I can’t help wondering how many other students take a few minutes to look at what we do outside the classroom ....”
Dr Belinda Luke, Senior Lecturer, Accountancy
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Engaging with Industry“Just last week, the General Manager of Sustainable Development from an Australian rural industry called me – based on reading one of my research papers .... in ePrints. He loved what he read – which he thought was the most clear approach he’d seen on quantifying social impact – and we are now in discussion about how we can help them measure their industry’s social impacts.”
Dr Evonne Miller, Senior Lecturer, Design
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Gaining Research Students The Faculty of Education has found that ePrints has formed
an important bridge to facilitate engagement of potential postgraduate students with the Faculty.
Both the Research Pathways Coordinator for Undergraduate Courses (Dr Beryl Exley), and the Assistant Dean Research, report with certainty the growth in HDR numbers through the greater visibility of the faculty’s refereed research.
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The Broader Role – Research Impact
Greater visibility Direct impact on metrics that matter New readerships in the developing world and other
areas, e.g. rural Attracting HDR students
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Response of the Faculties and others in the University
Developing their own rewards systems for depositing
Considering mandates in other areas of research policy, e.g. data
Using ePrints to link to important research profile information about staff
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Other impacts
Organisational Renewal within the University– Library eResearch partnership with ITS– Data management roles– Library and Information Management roles– University Wide Inquiry management
All of these have developed in the last 3 years.
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Questions?
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