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.

e-Publications and the e-Library: Current Trends and What They Will Mean for You.

Jessie Hey with Paul BoageyUniversity of Southampton Libraries

School of Nursing and MidwiferyScholarship Seminar Series4th June 2003

Overview

e-Scholarship:New e-initiatives

e-Publications the e-Library

e-Prints:UK picturee-Prints Soton pilot service for researchPotential 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 Initiativehttp://www.soros.org/openaccess

Launched 14th February 2002 by George Soros’s 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 12th 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 http://www.doaj.org/

Health Sciences in the Directory

BioMed 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

papere.g.

Journal article (as copyright allows)PreprintPostprintWorking paperBook chapterConference paperThesisTechnical report

International subject based archives – key examples Pioneering example ArXiv http://arxiv.org/ is an e-

print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science

RePEc http://repec.org/ – research papers in Economics (origins 1993)

CogPrints http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ – multi-disciplinary self-archived papers in cognitive sciences

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) http://www.dspace.org/

Institutional Archives

Reawakening to value of greater access to an institution’s 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? http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-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:

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/thes.html Enhance UK research impact and assessment by making the RAE webmetric

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?

Department

Books

Journal articles and

book chapters

Full text

Archaeology 47 205 2 Biology 14 782 24 Chemistry 13 1115 111 Economics 9 348 89 Electronics and Computer Science

131 6877 866 (personal web sites not

counted) English 62 181 3 Health Professions and Rehabilitation Sciences

8 324 0

Maths Education 21 149 34 Medicine 1603 247 Modern Languages 69 91 0 Music 36 244 5 Nursing and Midwifery

89 350 0

Politics 49 89 6

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 – we’ll 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

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/See Publisher CopyrightPolicies54% allow self archivingConsider carefully what rights you assign to publishers

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

OAIster

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. [email protected]

Natasha Lucas (project admin.) Tel. 26112 (usually am)[email protected]

Project web site http://tardis.eprints.org/ 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-library

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? http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/

e-Publications and the e-Library: Current Trends and What They Will Mean for You.

Jessie Hey with Paul BoageyUniversity of Southampton Libraries

School of Nursing and MidwiferyScholarship Seminar Series4th June 2003