Open Access and Public Benefit - fostering knowledge sharing - European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding Brussels, 4 th December 2007 Bill Hubbard SHERPA Manager University of Nottingham

Open Access Budapest Open Access Initiative An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good... –

Open Access landscape Open Access free unrestricted access to full-text of research Open Access Journals – open access journals Open Access Repositories – open access repositories

Open Access benefits Increased readership Increased citations Increased research impact –faster, wider Greater public access to research Publicly funded research publicly available Works alongside traditional models

Repositories Institutions have repositories –open to institutions academics Networks of repositories –SHERPA, DARENet, ARROW - country networks –DRIVER as European network Some specific subject repositories –arXiv, PMC –UKPMC holds 948,500 full-text articles freely available

Repositories by Continent

European Repositories

Open Access and Funders Publicly funded research not publicly available Internet access does not equal free access Funded research is not used as much as it could be With Open Access, citations rise % So there are readers that cannot get access, readers that want to have access and can use the research when they do get access

UK Research Councils 7 Councils –AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC, EPSRC, MRC, NERC, STFC Euro 1.97 billion to HEIs Half of all funded research in UK HEIs 6 have open access requirements as part of their grant conditions

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EURAB Recommendation European Research Advisory Board Policy On Open Access - December 2006 ( summarised) Allow researchers freedom to publish Increase visibility and access to the research Base on recognised best practice Mandate that all researchers deposit outputs in an open access repository as soon as possible after publication

publication & deposition Author writes paper Submits to journal Paper refereed Revised by author Author submits final version Published in journal Deposits in e-print repository pre-print post-print published version