Alma Swan - PASTEUR4OA: Policy alignment and effectiveness
Transcript of Alma Swan - PASTEUR4OA: Policy alignment and effectiveness
OpenAIRE Open Access Week webinar, 27 October 2016
PASTEUR4OA: policy alignment and effectiveness
Alma Swan
Project consortiumInstitution Country
National Documentation Centre (EKT) GREnabling Open Scholarship (EOS) BEUniversidade do Minho PTUniversity of Oslo (CRIStin) NOEIFL NLeuroCRIS NLHungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) HUPolitecnico di Torino ITLIBER NLSPARC Europe NLJisc UKHacettepe University TROpen Knowledge Foundation (OKF) UKFonds National de Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) BEResearch Council of Lithuania LT
The aim
To stimulate and support Open Access policies
across Europe, aligned to H2020
NW region funders meeting| 10/02/2016| Brussels
The means
• Engage policymakers (directly and indirectly through Network)
• The Knowledge Net- A coordinated network of expert organizations across Europe to work together- to promote, coordinate and contribute to aligning policies
• Develop evidence-based policy advocacy materials and good practice case studies
ROARMAP rebuild Sought out existing policies that were not
registered in ROARMAP to ensure comprehensiveness
Developed a new, detailed classification scheme
Classified all policies according to this scheme
Re-launched with 660+ policies fully classified
Open Access policies worldwide
Europe (468)
North Amer-ica (157)
Central & South Amer-
ica (40)
Africa (19) Asia (45) Oceania (40)
Number of OA policymakers worldwide
Research funders (79)
Research institutions (553)
Research funder and institutions
(54)
Multiple re-search organ-
isations (9)
Sub-units of institutions (74)
Policy effectiveness study
122 mandatory policies (institutions) Repository content measured Regression analysis carried out using policy
criteria Set out to look at deposit
Policy conditions recorded in ROARMAP: original set of 13
ConditionMust depositCannot waive depositDeposit immediatelyMust make item OACannot waive making item OALink deposit with research assessment / evaluationMust make item OA immediatelyPermitted embargo period specified (STEM)Permitted embargo period specified (HaSS)Must retain rights to make item OACannot waive retention of rightsAge of mandatory policyRequirement for open licensing
Policy conditions: eliminated those with small numbers > working set of 6 policy conditions
ConditionMust depositCannot waive depositMust make item OACannot waive making item OALink deposit with research assessment / evaluationCannot waive retention of rights
Regression analysis
Statistical tool Looks at the relationships between variables in
an experiment Can measure effect of more than one variable at
a time Can infer causal relationship (though care
needed!) Correlation versus significance In this study we were looking for both
Significant correlation with deposit action
Policy criterion Positive correlation
Significant correlation
Must deposit ✔ ✔Cannot waive deposit ✔ ✔Link deposit to research evaluation ✔ ✔Must make deposit Open Access ✔Cannot waive making item Open Access ✔Where policy stipulates authors should retain relevant rights, this cannot be waived
✔
Significant correlations with deposit rate Must deposit Cannot waive deposit Research evaluation Must make deposit Open Access Cannot waive making item Open Access Where rights are retained, this cannot be waived
Policies with the significant criteria
25 policies 5 funders 20 institutions
Must depositCannot waive depositResearch evaluation
Funders
European Commission: Horizon 2020 policy Austria: FWF (Fonds zur Foederung der Wissenschaftlichen
Forschung; Austrian Science Fund ) UK: HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Councils) US: NIH (National Institutes of Health) South Africa: National Research Foundation of South Africa Canada: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Research institutions Adiyaman Universitesi (Turkey) Arts et Metiers Paris Tech Ghent University (Belgium) INRIA (France) Ifremer (France) International Hellenic University (Greece) Laboratoire de psychologie et neurosciences cognitives (France) Pwani University (Kenya) Saint-Louis University Brussels (Belgium) Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Universita degli studi di Trieste (Italy) University of Birmingham (UK) University of Bouira (Algeria) University of Liege (Belgium) University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) University of Mons (Belgium) University of Reading (UK) University of Southampton (UK) University of Strathclyde (UK) University of Trento (Italy)
Highest deposit rates (research-intensive institutions*)
Institution Number of articles
published 2011-2013
% articles deposited in
the repository
University of Liege (Belgium) 4240 87 %Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
3021 62 %
University of Pretoria (South Africa)
3335 60 %
Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
3558 49 %* Published more than 3000 articles in the 3-year test period
Highest deposit rates (research-intensive institutions*)
Institution Number of articles
published 2011-2013
% articles deposited in
the repository
Policy has all critical criteria?
University of Liege (Belgium) 4240 87 % ✔
Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
3021 62 % ✔
University of Pretoria (South Africa)
3335 60 %
Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
3558 49 %
* Published more than 3000 articles in the 3-year test period
Other things that help policy success
Policy champion Library activism in support of the policy (Research
Office?) Department/faculty strategy Training programme Promotional events (e.g. Open Access Week) Promotional materials Technical tools (e.g. impact tools, etc) Other suggestions to share