1. Lenus: enabling open access research amongst physiotherapists
Aoife Lawton
Systems Librarian, Health Service Executive
Presentation to Chartered Physiotherapists in Management (CPM)

2. What is open access publishing?
Quality peer-reviewed articles and data are made available online, free of charge for everyone
"Open access[..] literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions"
(Peter Suber, 2012)

3. Benefits of OA research
To Society:
free to reader – be they a patient, citizen, doctor, nurse, health and social care professional, manager
To the HSE:
ROI on employee research
To the State:
publicly funded research paid for once and findings available free

4. Top 10 journals by impact factor
Top Medical Top Health Services

7. Predatory Publishing gives OA a bad name

8. Predatory Publishing

12. Origins of Open Access ArXiv – Physics 1991
PubMed Central – Medicine 2000
The NIH Public Access Policy 2005 ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication.  To help advance science and improve human health, the Policy requires that these papers are accessible to the public on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication.
Science always been at the forefront of the OA movement
ArXiv was set up by Cornell University Library and makes research articles freely available in the area of physics, maths, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
PMC is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, Launched in February 2000, PMC was developed and is managed by NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). NLM believes that the best way to ensure the accessibility and viability of digital material over time is through consistent and active use of the archive. For this reason, free access to all of its journal literature is a core principle of PMC.
PMC is a repository for journal literature deposited by participating publishers, as well as for author manuscripts that have been submitted in compliance with the Public Access Policy mandated by NIH and similar policies of other research funding agencies. PMC is not a publisher and does not publish journal articles itself.
PMC offers publishers a number of ways in which to participate and deposit their content in the archive. Although free access is a requirement, publishers can delay the release of their material in PMC for a reasonable period after publication. Publishers may also obtain a copy of their deposit material at any time, at no cost.

13. Serials Crisis STM journal publisher profit:
2008 (8 billion)
2013 (10 billion)
Source: The STM Report: an overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing / Mark Ware & Michael Mabe. The Hague: International Ass. Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers, 2015.

14. Did you know?

15. Routes to Open Access Green Deposit in a Repository e.g. Lenus
Gold
Green
Deposit in a Repository e.g. Lenus
Final peer reviewed version available known as ‘Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM)’
Gold
Pay OA fee to publisher (€ per article)
UK have gone down this route - Finch report.

16. Policy - Government
FASTR Bill & White House Directive 2013 extends to all agencies (Green route 6 months)
Governments US NIH
UK Finch report 2012 Gold route for OA
EU access to data arising from research funded under Horizon 2020 freely available by 2014
Ireland National Statement on Open Access Publication 2012 (Green)
Australia OA mandate 2013 (Green)

17. How do I check if I can submit my article in Lenus?
Check the publisher’s policy on open access (via the journal website)

18. €2200 per article
12 month
embargo
€2105 per
article
12 month
embargo

19. SUBMIT

20. If no link appears, then little access or paid access only
No link - paid
access

21. No fulltext

22. Fulltext

28. Research Activity HSCPs
3.43% are research active
Source: McHugh, Patrick, Byrne, Michael. Survey of the research activity, skills and training needs of Health and Social Care Professionals (HSCPs) in Ireland Dublin. HSE p.10

29. Challenges to health professionals
Challenges to conducting research:
Service pressures – no protected time
Not part of core work, patients first
Infrastructure
Methodological support
Career pathway for research staff
Research skills – training
Research “value” culture
Lack of awareness of OA
Challenges to OA publishing:
Cost (€1320-€1510 per article)
Some of the highest impact factor journals are not OA

30. Governance
136 RECs
Section 7 of the Health Act 2004 gives statutory responsibility to the HSE in terms of research.
(6) The Executive may undertake, commission or collaborate in research projects on issues relating to health and personal social services, but, in considering whether to do so, it shall have regard to any decision by another body or person within the State to undertake, commission or collaborate in such projects.

31. National Common Principles for Open Access Policy Statement Oct 2012
Organisations involved in the National Steering Committee on Open Access Policy include:
Health Research Board (HRB)
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL)
Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)
Digital Repository Ireland initiative (DRI)
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Health Service Executive Lenus (HSE)
Higher Education Authority (HEA)
Industrial Development Authority (IDA)
Institute of Public Health (IPH)
Institutes of Technology Ireland (IOTI)
Irish Research Council (IRC)
Irish Universities Association (IUA)
IUA Librarians' Group
Marine Institute (MI)
Teagasc
National Common
Principles
For Open Access Policy
Statement

32. HSE OA Position Statement

34. OA Research Advisory Group established 2013

35. Organisational Barriers & Progress
Leadership: no director of research in the HSE
Restructuring of HSE
Workforce planning
Effective communication
Lack of OA Mandate
EBP v’s Research
Health Information Bill delays
Progress
Medical Education, Training and Research (METR) 2008
Lenus the Irish Health Repository (2009)
HSE Open Access Research Advisory Group (2013)
1st OA research award (2014)

36. Initiatives
Lenus launched in Feb 2009 OA repository collecting research from health professionals in Ireland regardless of institutional affiliation
Feb st Irish Health Research Seminar
International OA Week
call for research sent to all Irish hospitals & RECs by Director of Clinical Strategy & Programmes
Research (ongoing & published) collated in Lenus
330 items in HSCP collection, 7633 in Hospital research collection

38. HSE OA Research Award 2015

39. How you can help Become an OA advocate
Submit published research to Lenus
Spread the word
Enter for the HSE OA Research Awards 2016

40. Next Steps
Need to increase awareness of Open Access, Lenus & Benefits via:
HSE OA Research Advisory Group
Need Professional Association Journals to open up research to Lenus (Physiotherapy Practice and Research Official Journal of The Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists.)
Events during International OA week
Lenus Working Group
Citations from Lenus
Presentations at HSCP conferences

41. Links & Contact Info
Tel:
@LenusHSE
@aalawton
@DrSteevensLib

42. References & Further reading
Lawton, A. & Flynn, E. (2015) "The Value of Open Access Publishing to Health and Social Care Professionals in Ireland". Ariadne Issue 73 Manning, P (2015) “Research and Open Access publishing” in How to conduct research for service improvement: a guide for health and social care professionals (HSCPs). 2nd ed. [Byrne, M eds]. Naas:HSE. Suber, P. Overview of open access. Videos: