Open Access and Public Benefit - fostering knowledge sharing - European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding Brussels, 4 th December 2007 Bill Hubbard.

Open Access and Public Benefit

- fostering knowledge sharing -European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding

Brussels, 4th December 2007

Bill Hubbard

SHERPA Manager

University of Nottingham

Open Access

Budapest Open Access Initiative “An old tradition and a new technology have

converged to make possible an unprecedented public good . . .”

– http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

Open Access landscape

Open Access

free unrestricted access to full-text of research

Open Access Journals– www.doaj.org - 2972 open access journals

Open Access Repositories– www.opendoar.org - 1009 open access repositories

Open Access benefits

Increased readership Increased citations Increased research impact

– faster, wider

Greater public access to research Publicly funded research publicly available

Works alongside traditional models

Repositories

Institutions have repositories– open to institution’s academics

Networks of repositories– SHERPA, DARENet, ARROW - country networks– DRIVER as European network

Some specific subject repositories– arXiv, PMC– UKPMC holds 948,500 full-text articles freely available

Repositories by Continent

European Repositories

Open Access and Funders

Publicly funded research not publicly available Internet access does not equal free access Funded research is not used as much as it could be

With Open Access, citations rise 100 - 300% So there are readers that cannot get access, readers

that want to have access and can use the research when they do get access

UK Research Councils

7 Councils– AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC, EPSRC, MRC, NERC, STFC

Euro 1.97 billion to HEIs Half of all funded research in UK HEIs 6 have open access requirements as part of their

grant conditions

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EURAB Recommendation

European Research Advisory Board Policy On Open Access - December 2006

(summarised) Allow researchers freedom to publish Increase visibility and access to the research Base on recognised best practice Mandate that all researchers deposit outputs in an

open access repository as soon as possible after publication

www.sherpa.ac.ukwww.opendoar.org

www.driver-community.eu

[email protected]

publication & deposition

Author writes paper

Submits to journal

Paper refereed

Revised by author

Author submits final version

Published in journal

Deposits in e-print repository

pre-print

post-print

published version