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Open access and repository developments

This document discusses the extensive developments in Open Access (OA) initiated by Key Perspectives Ltd, exploring its principles, benefits, and frameworks for participation. It highlights the role of OA journals and repositories in providing immediate, free access to scholarly literature, benefiting researchers, institutions, and society alike. The growth of OA repositories, the engagement of users, and mandates from funding agencies are also examined, showcasing real-world usage statistics and future plans. Join us in understanding the dynamic landscape of Open Access.

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Open access and repository developments

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  1. Open access and repository developments Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK

  2. Principles Places Participation Policies Pulling Purposes Plans Patterns Plenty of P-words! Key Perspectives Ltd

  3. Principles Key Perspectives Ltd

  4. Open Access: What is it? • Online • Immediate • Free (non-restricted) • Free (gratis) • To the scholarly literature that authors give away • Permanent Key Perspectives Ltd

  5. Open Access: Who benefits? • Benefits to researchers themselves • Benefits to institutions • Benefits to national economies • Benefits to science and society Key Perspectives Ltd

  6. Open Access: How? • Open Access journals (www.doaj.org) • Open Access repositories (author ‘self-archiving’) Key Perspectives Ltd

  7. Places Key Perspectives Ltd

  8. Open Access repositories • Interoperable – worldwide database of research • circa 800 worldwide and growing at an average of 1 per day • Growth of content is rather less encouraging Key Perspectives Ltd

  9. Universal archives • OARA: Peter Suber’s venture with the Internet Archive • Google Base • Tampere University has opened its own archive (Tampub) to ‘all scholars’ • UK universal archive being built in Edinburgh and funded by JISC Key Perspectives Ltd

  10. Participation(by users) Key Perspectives Ltd

  11. Usage stories • UoC’s eScholarship repository has now logged 2 million downloads • 2 years - 0.5m • 1 year – 1m • 9mths – 2m • 10K records at end 2005 • University of Otago Business School • Launched mid-November • 20K downloads by mid-February • 220 articles! Key Perspectives Ltd

  12. Policies Key Perspectives Ltd

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

  14. Mandates • In 5 institutions • More on the way • From 5 funders • More on the way… Key Perspectives Ltd

  15. USA • NIH: Strengthening now very likely Require not request 6 months rather than 12 • CURES: 6-month delay permitted but… deposit at acceptance (in PMC) • FRPAA: All research funded by the largest agencies Key Perspectives Ltd

  16. UK • Wellcome Trust ($750m) • Research Councils UK 4 out of 8 have a mandate and 1 has a strong encouragement Key Perspectives Ltd

  17. Pulling Key Perspectives Ltd

  18. Finding OA stuff • OA search engines, e.g. OAIster • National-level search services, e.g. DAREnet (Netherlands) and ARROW (Australia) • Internet search engines, e.g. Google Scholar, Microsoft Live Academic Key Perspectives Ltd

  19. Purposes Key Perspectives Ltd

  20. Research assessment • Bronze release of EPrints and DSpace for RAE (IRRA project) (N.B. UK Research Assessment Exercise will from now on be based on ‘metrics’) • Developments in usage statistics reporting Key Perspectives Ltd

  21. Plans for repositories Key Perspectives Ltd

  22. Linking UK repositories • User requirements – what services are needed? • Roles and responsibilities involved • Technical architecture • Business models Key Perspectives Ltd

  23. Servicesbuiltontorepositories KeyPerspectivesLtd

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  27. Servicesbuiltontorepositories KeyPerspectivesLtd

  28. Patterns for repositories Key Perspectives Ltd

  29. Purdue University’s model Key Perspectives Ltd

  30. Thank you for listening aswan@keyperspectives.co.uk www.keyperspectives.co.uk Key Perspectives Ltd

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