International Open Access week at Leeds Met

• Nobel prize winning scientist • Discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes• Director of the National Cancer Institute (USA)• Former director of NIH• Launched PubMed central• Co-founder of PLoS

http://vimeo.com/15881200 (7:40 – 12:16)

Dr Harold Varmus

What the Leeds Met Repository can do for youPresentation based on:

Swan, A. (2009) What an institutional repository can do for you - and for your institution. In: University of Salford institutional repository event (number 2), 15 December 2009, Salford, UK.http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18364/

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Some context - Old paradigm of research dissemination

• Use of proxy measures of an individual scholar’s merit is as good as it gets

• The responsibility for disseminating your work rests with the publisher

• The printed article is the format of record• Other scholars have time to search out what you want

them to know

New paradigm of research dissemination

• Rich, deep, broad metrics for measuring the contributions of individual scholars

• Effective dissemination of your work is now in your hands (at last)

• The digital format will be the format of record (is already in many areas)

• Unless you routinely publish in Nature or Science, ‘getting it out there’ is up to you

The system is broken• WHO survey (2000):• 56% of research-based institutions in lower-income

countries - NO current subscriptions to research journals• Nor had they for the previous 5 years• Even libraries at wealthy institutions• We will never close the “10/90 gap” unless we change the

system• Publicly-funded research should be freely available to the

‘public’

The solution: Open Access• Open dissemination?• Immediate• Free (to use)• Free (of restrictions)• Access to the peer-reviewed literature (and data)• Not vanity publishing• Not a ‘stick anything up on the Web’ approach• Moving scholarly communication into the Web Age

Open Access: Who benefits?• Researchers• Institutions• National economies• Science and society

Why Open Access?• Greater impact from scientific endeavour• More rapid and more efficient progress of science• Novel information-creation using new and advanced

technologies• Better assessment, better monitoring, better

management of science

Science and scholarship are cumulative. Open Access can Accelerate their pace by allowing new connections – big or small – to be made faster SPARC

2010

Open Access: How?• Open Access Journals (gold)

• http://www.doaj.org/• Open Access repositories (green)

• http://www.opendoar.org/

Open Access repositories• Digital collections• Most usually institutional• Sometimes centralised (subject-based)• Interoperable• Form a network across the world• Create a global database of openly-accessible research• Currently >1700 globally• 181 in the UK

How to make your work Open Access through the Leeds Met repository• Prepare paper & submit to journal of choice for peer review• Make changes required as a result of peer review process• Submit final version to the journal• Deposit that same final version to the Leeds Met repository • email [email protected] • Repository team will check journal copyright conditions on

your behalf• Or you may do so yourself using the SHERPA RoMEO service

at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Heavy lifting done for you

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What about researchers?• An institutional repository provides researchers with:• The means to disseminate their work to the world• Secure storage (for completed work and for work-in-

progress)• A location for supporting data that are unpublished• One-input-many outputs (CVs, publications)• Tool for research assessment (REF)• Personal marketing tool• The route to maximal visibility and impact for their

work

Open Access and citation• Evidence that:• OA articles cited more often than non-OA.• OA articles are cited earlier than non-OA.• Free online availability substantially increases a

paper's impact. (Lawrence, 2001)

And for University......what is a University for?

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures but far and wide.

Daniel Coit GilmanFirst President, John Hopkins University (1878)

Leeds Met – Strategic Plan 2010 - 2015

An Institutional Repository...• Fulfils a university’s mission to engender, encourage

and disseminate scholarly work• Complete record of its intellectual effort• Permanent record of all digital output• Research management tool• Marketing tool• Provides maximum Web impact for the institution

Lost citations = lost impact• Say, Open Access brings 50% more citations• Only around 15% of research is Open Access• ….. so 85% is not• University X is therefore losing 85% of the 50%

increase in citations (conservative end of the range) that Open Access brings (= 42.5%)

Repositories… “are vital to universities’ economies and to the UK economy as a whole.” 

Professor J Drummond BonePast President, Universities UK

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Report covers 4th September 2009 – 05th October 2010

Integrated research infrastructure

• Andrew Slade - DVC for research • Research Management System• Potential to improve workflows / automate deposit• Research lifecycle• Dynamic bibliographic feeds• Personal web-page(s)• Faculty / research centre web-sites

Enemy isn’t plagiarism, it’s obscurity!• Maintain web-presence for your work• Copyright management / advice• Statistics / download data• Benefits you as the researcher• Benefits the University