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Why researchers publish their work
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Drivers to publish (or else perish)
• Impact on their field
• Who is measuring that?– Governments (by RAE and allied
assessment systems)– Employers– Funders– Researchers themselves?
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How is it assessed?
• Journal impact factor
• Author’s individual impact
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Do they know about their own individual impact?
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Open access increases impact• Citation rates for OA articles are up to five times greater
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Open access can be provided in two (or three) ways
• Publish research in open access journals (c1400 currently in publication)
• Deposit copies of peer-reviewed articles in institutional or subject-based archives (‘self-archiving’)
• Deposit copies of articles on personal or departmental website
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• Carried out 1303 individual acts of self-archiving
• 631 individuals were involved (49% of total)
• Number of self-archiving acts per person is 2.1
• Average number of S-A acts is 1.01
The 1296 respondents….
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UK picture• 55 repositories currently running,
mostly on Eprints software (Southampton University)
• 16 of 19 Russell Group universities
• 50% of the 1994 Group of universities
• Wellcome Foundation mandating from October 2005
• RCUK statement expected late June
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