Understanding Open Access in the Context of UK Research Funding
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This document provides context on open access and discusses its benefits for authors. It outlines the growth of open access policies worldwide, with over 650 policies identified. Mandatory open access policies now exist in Europe, North America, and other regions. Funders like the European Commission and research councils in the UK have implemented open access mandates requiring funded research to be openly available. Open access provides greater visibility, usage, and impact for authors' work.
Understanding Open Access in the Context of UK Research Funding
- 1. Understanding Open Access – and understanding it in the context of UK research funding! Alma Swan SPARC Europe Key Perspectives Ltd Enabling Open Scholarship Hull University Postgraduate day, 29 January 2015
- 2. The shape of this presentation • Some context • OA benefits for authors • The policy picture
- 3. Open Access • Immediate • Free (to use) • Free (of restrictions) • Access to the peer-reviewed literature (and data) • Not vanity publishing • Not a ‘stick anything up on the Web’ approach • Moving scholarly communication into the Web Age
- 6. The ‘Subversive Proposal’ • 27 June 1994: the Subversive Proposal • Recommended that authors post their research papers on anonymous ftp sites • Free access to their peers
- 7. The reactions • Researchers • Policymakers • Publishers
- 9. The reactions • Researchers • Policymakers • Publishers
- 10. Open Access: how • Open Access journals (www.doaj.org) • Open Access repositories (www.opendoar.org) • Open Access monographs
- 11. Here’s one
- 12. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 % Gold % Green Where are we?
- 14. Here’s one
- 18. What’s in it for authors?
- 19. Author advantages from Open Access • Visibility • Usage • Impact • Personal profiling and marketing
- 20. Visibility
- 21. An author’s own testimony on open access visibility “Self-archiving in the PhilSci Archive 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.”
- 22. Usage
- 23. University of Liege repository: authors deposit
- 25. Individual article usage: annual levels
- 26. Individual article usage: monthly levels
- 27. PubMed Central • 2 million full-text articles • c500,000 unique users per day: – 25% universities – 18% government and others – 40% citizens – 17% companies
- 28. Impact
- 29. Citation impact Range = 36%-200% (Data: Stevan Harnad and co-workers)
- 30. Engineering 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 OA Non-OA Data: Gargouri & Harnad, 2010 Citations
- 31. Clinical medicine 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 OA Non-OA Citations Data: Gargouri & Harnad, 2010
- 32. Social science 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 OA Non-OA Citations Data: Gargouri & Harnad, 2010
- 35. Melissa Terras
- 36. To summarise … • More views • More downloads • More tweets • More citations (see SPARC Europe site for list of studies and summary of findings: “SPARC Europe citation advantage”)
- 37. The Open Access policy picture
- 39. Current global picture: Open Access policies Region Policies Europe 356 North America 146 Central & South America 35 Africa 11 Asia 65 Oceania 38 Total 651 Data: ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Policies and Mandates) http://roarmap.eprints.org/
- 40. Open Access policies worldwide Europe North America Central & South America Africa Asia Oceania
- 41. Open Access policymakers worldwide Research funders Research institutions Research funder and institutions Multiple research organisations Sub-units of institutions
- 42. The effect of a mandatory policy
- 43. Current global picture: Open Access mandates Region Mandates Europe 203 North America 70 Central & South America 17 Africa 6 Asia 32 Oceania 18 Total 346
- 44. Open Access mandates worldwide Europe North America Central & South America Africa Asia Oceania
- 45. H2020 and Open Access • Mandatory for peer-reviewed publications • ‘Green’ OA mandate (repositories) – Publish as normal in subscription-based journals – Place author’s copy in OA repository – Deposit this at acceptance for publication • ‘Gold’ OA: Permits payments from grants for OA journal publication • Mute on monographs • Definite on data, announcing an open data pilot for H2020
- 47. RCUK • Prefers ‘Gold’ OA (journals) • Permits ‘Green’ OA as an alternative: – Permitted embargoes: 12 mths (STEM and 24 mths (HaSS) • Block grants to pay APCs • Hull: – Year 1: £19,614 (12 articles) – Year 2: £23,075 (14 articles) • Cambridge Yr 2: £1,355,073 (817 articles)
- 48. University of Liege repository: authors deposit
- 50. HEFCE • And HEFCW, SFC, DELNI • Post 2014-REF • Applies to all papers published from April 2016 • Must be deposited in your IR within 3 months of acceptance • Metadata must be open from deposit • Permitted embargoes 12/24 (as RCUK)
- 51. Thank you for listening almaswan3@gmail.com www.sparceurope.org www.openscholarship.org
- 52. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/