The Open Access landscape (and what might be over the horizon) Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro...

The Open Access landscape (and what might be over the horizon)

Alma Swan

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Truro

London LEAP Open Access conference, 11 June 2007

Open Access: What is it?

Online Immediate Free (non-restricted) Free (gratis) To the scholarly literature that authors

give away Permanent

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Open Access: Why should we have it?

Benefits to researchers themselves Benefits to institutions Benefits to national economies Benefits to science and society

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What does it do for research?

Greater impact from scholarly endeavour More rapid and more efficient progress of

scholarship Better assessment, better monitoring,

better management of research Novel information-creation using new and

advanced technologies

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The routes to Open Access

Publish in an Open Access journal

OR Publish in a Closed Access journal

that you like and ‘self-archive’ the paper in your institutional repository

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Nowadays, fewer signs of this..

“I hate open access. For starters, I want my research read by scientists, NOT lay people ”

“Open Access is a lot of bull. Good papers are published in top rated journals.”

“Open Access will ultimately lead to unrefereed self-publication of junk.”

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Open Access journals

c2500 (approximately 10% of the total number of peer-reviewed journals)

Quality Business models What this means for you

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Open Access repositories

circa 950 worldwide LEAP (London E-prints Access Project):

10 repositories now 3 more in development

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The problem

Little content! A Large London College:

2841 items (1973 – present) 4763+ articles published in 2006

alone (source: Web of Science)

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Other developments: policy

Policies and mandates New attitudes to copyright Research data

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Other developments: technology

New ways of measuring and assessing research and researchers

Verification of versions of articles

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Assessment, impact

Journal Impact Factor Article citations (WoS, Google

Scholar) Downloads from your repository

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Download timelines

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Referrers

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Links and search terms

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Every e-print tells a story…

NIPS Workshop linked to this eprint from its web page

Link placed on “Canonical correlation” page in Wikipedia

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Versions of articles

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Digital certificate

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REPOSITORIES and OA journal content

Ingest layer services

Search / retrieve

Aggregate / display

Count / assess Peer review

Other value adding

Editorial

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Open new world: the payoff

Visibility Acknowledgement Credit

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More of this…

“Self-archiving …. has given instant world-wide visibility to my work. As a result, I was invited to submit papers to refereed international conferences/journals and got them accepted.”

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And a solution to the researcher’s dilemma…

“My enemy isn’t plagiarism, it’s obscurity”

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Thank you for listening

aswan@keyperspectives.co.uk

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