UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication Dr Paul Ayris Director of...

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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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

Pulpit [detail]. Church of Ognissanti, Florence

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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

Ponte Vecchio, Florence

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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


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


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


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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