Transcript of Research Excellence and other research outputs David Groenewegen, Director, Research Infrastructure.
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- Research Excellence and other research outputs David
Groenewegen, Director, Research Infrastructure
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- About me Librarian Currently responsible for repositories, data
management, some bits of open access Previously Director of
Australian National Data Service Before that ran ARROW
(institutional repository) and ARCHER (data management software)
projects Before that, digital resources purchasing etc at Monash
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- Journals are very expensive Average price increases 5% p.a.
http://lj.libraryjournal.co m/2014/04/publishing/st eps-down-the-
evolutionary-road- periodicals-price- survey-2014/
http://lj.libraryjournal.co m/2014/04/publishing/st eps-down-the-
evolutionary-road- periodicals-price- survey-2014/ September
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- Publisher make lots of money September 2014Research Excellence
and other research outputs4 Reed Elsevier 2013 profit: GBP826m, 39%
margin
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/elsevier-stm-publishing-profits-rise-to.html
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/elsevier-stm-publishing-profits-rise-to.html
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- Basis of this The existing system where: researchers write
papers they give to publishers for free or even pay the publishers
researchers review the papers and edit the journals for free
Institutions buy the journals from the publishers September
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- Why does this persist? Invisibility of prices Assessment,
ranking and promotion exercises Value of the brand September
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- Are high impact factor journals better? 2011 study RETRACTED
SCIENCE AND THE RETRACTION INDEX showed higher impact factor titles
were more likely to retract articles than others.
http://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.05661-11 September 2014Research
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- Some resistance, but September 2014Research Excellence and
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- Resistance is weak One Go8 Library recently tried to cancel
Science when their sub rate was doubled in mid contract Despite
initial VC support this was overturned within 3 weeks Researcher
protests that a serious research university MUST have Science
Science, like all journals, is not immune to problemsimmune to
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- Should impact factors be part of assessment? Do not use
journal- based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, as a
surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles,
to assess an individual scientists contributions, or in hiring,
promotion, or funding decisions. September 2014Research Excellence
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- Open Access Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online,
free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the
consent of the author or copyright-holder.
http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htmhttp://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm
Institutional, government and funder mandates NHMRC and ARC both
have OA policies Around 300 of these300 of these Some quite
substantial efforts around the worldaround the world National
Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust: cautiously and
discreetly cracking down on researchers who do not make their
papers publicly availablecautiously and discreetly cracking down on
researchers who do not make their papers publicly available However
appears to inflict little or no damage on the leading subscription
publishersappears to inflict little or no damage on the leading
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- Make data available Validates research and publications Re-use
is possible, which improves research efficiency Facilitates
collaboration: data is easier to share with others Increased
research impact: Increased citation of articles if data is supplied
Future potential to highlight how many times data has been
cited/re-used Heather A. Piwowar , Todd J. Vision, Data reuse and
the open data citation advantage, PeerJData reuse and the open data
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- What can researchers do? Remember: 1.You keep these titles
alive 2.Your research money is being spent on them 3.You use them
to judge each other 4.You have the capacity to avoid the mistakes
of the past with data September 2014Research Excellence and other
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- DISCUSSION David.Groenewegen@monash.edu September 2014Research
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