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Opening up research content in the NHS
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright OfficerPresident of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)
e-mail: [email protected]
SHALL Plus - 20 September 2012
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Contents
1. Open Access – the essentials
2. The Finch Report Its significance for Higher Education
3. The Finch Report The problem for the NHS Journal licensing Open Access
4. Conclusions?
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Contents
1. Open Access – the essentials
2. The Finch Report Its significance for Higher Education
3. The Finch Report The problem for the NHS Journal licensing Open Access
4. Conclusions?
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LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access
A revolution in the way research material is disseminated across the globe
For an introduction and overview, see: http://www.leru.org/files/publications/LERU_AP8_Open_Access.pdf
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Open Access – the essential definitions
Open Knowledge is ‘any kind of information – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, re-used, and redistributed’ (Open Knowledge Foundation definition)
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 5
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Contents
1. Open Access – the essentials
2. The Finch Report Its significance in Higher Education
3. The Finch Report The problem for the NHS Journal licensing Open Access
4. Conclusions?
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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
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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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Finch Recommendations
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Finch Recommendations
National licensing solutions could extend access to the National Health Service, SMEs (Small + Medium sized Enterprises)
£6 million - £12 million extra a year for equality of access across HE
£1 million - £2 million a year for access by the NHS
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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
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Finch Recommendations
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Debate in the UK
Debate in the UK is polarised between the benefits of Green or Gold
2 solutions not mutually exclusive Finch talks about a Gold OA future, not set in a timeframe
Also relies on the whole world going Gold OA
Houghton and Swan look at transition issues and the position NOW
World will not go Gold OA overnight For the short to medium term, Green route is more cost
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UK Government funding
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7 September 2012
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Contents
1. Open Access – the essentials
2. The Finch Report Its significance in Higher Education
3. The Finch Report The problem for the NHS Journal licensing Open Access
4. Conclusions
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Access for NHS constituents to Wellcome-funded research content
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NHS level of access 2005 (% of content) 2012 (% of content)
No embargo 6.6 6.7
6-12 month embargo 6.7
2-24 month embargo 27.7
% with no direct access 86.7% 65.6%
HE level of access *
No embargo 88.2 96.4
3-12 month embargo not surveyed 0.8
% with no direct access 11.8% 2.8%
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GMC National Training results (2012)
UK-wide, only 55.11% of medical trainees considered the provision of online journals to be good or very good
Proportion who thought provision very good was only 12.45% See http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/surveys.asp
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Finch Recommendations
National licensing solutions could extend access to the National Health Service, SMEs (Small + Medium sized Enterprises)
£6 million - £12 million extra a year for equality of access across HE
£1 million - £2 million a year for access by the NHS
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Journal licensing
Approach being made to NHS to find funding Finch identified via NHS research budgets
Discussion being led for NHS by UCL Partners Possible sources of funding:
Health Education England (HEE) Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs) Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs)
JISC Collections can advise on procurement top-up
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Open Access
Studies like Finch and Houghton/Swan suggest that the future for research dissemination is increasingly via Open Access
LERU Roadmap shows that all 21 LERU universities have Green repositories
What is the NHS position on Open Access? If NHS research is funded by public investment, it should
be freely available
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Access for NHS constituents to Wellcome-funded research content
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2012 represents an opportunity Challenge
NHS in London could work with UK HE to establish a Green Open Access repository/repositories for NHS research
Benefits NHS research would be more easily available NHS researchers would gain more visibility by being downloaded
more often Open Access support evidence-based health-care agenda
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And finally…
Thank you for listening If you have been… Happy to (try and) answer any
questions
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