Open Access: why we should have it, what works and what doesnt Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK Key Perspectives Ltd.

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Open Access: why we should have it, what works and what doesnt Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK Key Perspectives Ltd

Institutionally-based repositories 700+ Half are institutional or departmental Growth of 1 per day, but… Average number of postprints is 297! Key Perspectives Ltd

Why Open Access Greater impact from scientific endeavour More rapid and more efficient progress of science Better assessment, better monitoring, better management of science Novel information-creation using new and advanced technologies Key Perspectives Ltd

Why researchers publish their work Key Perspectives Ltd

Open Access increases citations Key Perspectives Ltd Range = 36%-200% (Data: Stevan Harnad and co-workers)

Other impact studies Lawrence 2001 (computer science) Kurtz 2004 (astronomy) Brody & Harnad 2004 (all disciplines) Antelman 2005 (philosophy, politics, electrical & electronic engineering, mathematics) Wren 2005 Eysenbach 2006 Key Perspectives Ltd

This means financial impact, too The 6 th Framework Programme has a science budget of 19 billion Losing potential 50% research impact This means lost impact worth 9.5 billion to the European economies Key Perspectives Ltd

Science is faster, more efficient Key Perspectives Ltd

Navigation and analysis of science output: Citebase Key Perspectives Ltd

Measure usage and impact Key Perspectives Ltd

Follow the citing trail … Key Perspectives Ltd

New knowledge from old Data-mining Text-mining (semantic Web technologies) UK: National Text-Mining Centre Example: NeuroCommons ( Key Perspectives Ltd

Average number of articles in an institutional repository … 297! Key Perspectives Ltd

Author readiness to comply with a mandate 81% 14% 5% Key Perspectives Ltd

Institutions with a mandate already University of Southampton School of Electronics & Computer Science (since 2003) (90+% compliance already) CERN (2003) (90% compliance already) Queensland University of Technology (2004) (40%+ compliance and growing) University of Minho, Portugal (2005) NIT (Mumbai), and others on the way … Key Perspectives Ltd

Funder policies and mandates Policies: An almost-mandate from the DFG Exhortations and encouragements from public research funders in Finland, USA Proposed mandates : public funders (Canada, Australia, S.Africa, Ukraine, USA and EU) First real mandate from private funder (Wellcome Trust) National-level mandates from RCUK (Research Councils UK) Key Perspectives Ltd

CouncilPolicyRequireRequestWhich version OAJs AHRC End 2006 BBSRC ? CCLRC Depends on publisher EPSRC 2008 ESRC ?(should) Depends on publisher Can use grant money MRC ? Include in grant bid NERC a.s.a.p. PPARC Key Perspectives Ltd

Why Open Access Greater impact from scientific endeavour More rapid and more efficient progress of science Better assessment, better monitoring, better management of science Novel information-creation using new and advanced technologies Key Perspectives Ltd

Thank you for listening Key Perspectives Ltd