e-Publications and the e-Library: Current Trends and What They Will Mean for You. Jessie Hey with Paul Boagey University of Southampton Libraries School of Nursing and Midwifery Scholarship Seminar Series 4 th June 2003

Overview e-Scholarship: New e-initiatives e-Publications the e-Library e-Prints: UK picture e-Prints Soton pilot service for research Potential for Nursing and Midwifery

e-Publication continuum Working through the practicalities of the publication process in the previous workshop Working through e-library resources in lunch time sessions Electronic production can speed up the process of making research available Making accessible author versions, reports, working papers Peer review process may be done electronically e-journal, e-conference proceedings, e-book, e-thesis Complementary print versions eventually appear – final or selected versions

Budapest Open Access Initiative Launched 14 th February 2002 by George Soross Open Society Institute Worldwide coordinated movement dedicated to freeing online access to scientific and scholarly research texts Even wealthier institutions afford a small and shrinking proportion of the 4 million articles a year

The BOAI Providing universities with the means through encouraging institutional self archiving Providing support for new alternative journals offering open online access Open societies need open access

Directory of Open Access Journals launched in 2003 Launched May 12 th 2003 with about 350 journals This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. We define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access Some in Health Sciences

Health Sciences in the Directory

BioMed CentralBioMed Central an open access publisher An independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research Authors who publish original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central retain copyright over their work This secures their "moral right" to protect the integrity of their work and to have the full work referenced whenever all or part of it is reproduced.

Introducing e-Prints What is an e-Print? Simply an electronic version of an academic paper e.g. Journal article (as copyright allows) Preprint Postprint Working paper Book chapter Conference paper Thesis Technical report

International subject based archives – key examples Pioneering example ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer sciencehttp://arxiv.org/ RePEc – research papers in Economics (origins 1993) CogPrints – multi-disciplinary self-archived papers in cognitive scienceshttp://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ All three started by enthusiasts

ArXiv e-Print database growth since start in 1991

eScholarship in the US The California Digital Library (created 1997) started producing some discipline based archives: as they produce more they see that both subject and institutional archives will emerge and complement each other. They might, for example, have a branded research centre site and a central repository – we are exploring these ideas too They may contain a variety of e-Prints from preprints through conference papers through journal articles through teaching materials or even data (as planned by MIT)

Institutional Archives Reawakening to value of greater access to an institutions research Essential increase in visibility of our intellectual output A preservation role (like our traditional archivists) I have papers that my colleagues who collaborated with me cannot read or do not have a copy of because we do not subscribe to that journal (highlighted by the UK Research Assessment Exercise) From a departmental database Google can find it if we have self archived it

Benefits of nurturing your e- publication Articles freely available online are more highly cited. For greater impact and faster scientific progress, authors and publishers should aim to make research easy to access Nature, Volume 411, Number 6837, p. 521, 2001 Steve Lawrence Online or Invisible? e-nature01/ e-nature01/

eScholarship in the UK FAIR programme – Focus on Access to Institutional Resources e-Prints and e-theses Several research oriented universities in England and Scotland creating institutional repositories Publications will be gathered up for a national service ePrints UK

e-Prints and Research Assessment Currently some pressure to make the Research Assessment Exercise electronic: CVs pointing to electronic versions of papers in the university e-Print archives Read Stevan Harnad in the Times Higher this Friday or a longer version now: html Enhance UK research impact and assessment by making the RAE webmetric html

University of Southampton – current practice Table indicates different emphases on portraying research publications on departmental web sites Some use of international archives e.g. in Physics and Economics How can we help?

Your web site

Your co-author in Education Prof. Grainne Conole is keen to deposit electronic versions of their work in the local database Would make more visible their work in a new field with a variety of publication types

References but no full text available yet – example would be useful to both departments

Example of a department e-Print service – will be used to create University Research Report this year

e-Prints service can be tailored for department Can feed into whole institution as at Glasgow

The e-Prints Soton service Starting pilot – testing adding full text documents, for example, in Oceanography Adding possibility of assisted deposit to make it easier – give us the basics – well do the rest Looking to complement departmental plans and save academic time – many demands for publication data Looking for other departments or individuals to work with

Help with copyright issues Handy data on publisher agreements done by RoMEO project romeo/ See Publisher Copyright Policies 54% allow self archiving Consider carefully what rights you assign to publishers

Future searching globally to find your work e.g. with OAIsterOAIster

Now 1,183,995 records from 167 institutions (updated 1 May 2003) But expect search engines like this to be more useful as institutional e-Print services like ours grow.

For further information on the University of Southampton e-Prints Service Jessie Hey Tel Natasha Lucas (project admin.) Tel (usually am) Project web site Updates will be added to the library web site Paul Boagey (and the rest of your subject team) for all parts of the expanding e-libraryrest of your subject team

The key thought to go away with: Articles freely available online are more highly cited. For greater impact and faster scientific progress, authors and publishers should aim to make research easy to access Nature, Volume 411, Number 6837, p. 521, 2001 Steve Lawrence Online or Invisible? e-nature01/ e-nature01/

e-Publications and the e-Library: Current Trends and What They Will Mean for You. Jessie Hey with Paul Boagey University of Southampton Libraries School of Nursing and Midwifery Scholarship Seminar Series 4 th June 2003