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