E nabling O pen S cholarship Open Access to agricultural research: Developments and policies Alma Swan SPARC Europe Key Perspectives Ltd Enabling Open Scholarship AIMS Open Access Webinar, FAO, Rome, 24 October 2012
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Open Access to agricultural research:
Developments and policiesAlma Swan
SPARC EuropeKey Perspectives Ltd
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AIMS Open Access Webinar, FAO, Rome, 24 October 2012
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State of play
Open Access journalsOpen Access repositoriesLevels of Open Access
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Open Access journals
DOAJ (www.doaj.org): 8300 journalsSciELO (www.scielo.org): 980 journals
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Open Access repositoriesMid-October 2012: > 2200 repositoriesGrowth rate: approximately 1 each working dayInteroperableForm a worldwide database of freely accessible researchAgricultural research outputs included wherever voluntary sharing is undertaken, or where policies dictate
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OA content levels
Medicine
Biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology
Other areas related to medicine
Mathematics
Earth sciences
Social sciences
Chemistry and Chemical engineering
Engineering
Physics and astronomy
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
13.9
13.7
10.6
8.1
7
5.6
5.5
4.8
3
7.8
6.2
4.6
17.5
25.9
17.9
7.4
13.6
20.5
OA journals ('gold' OA)
OA repositories ('green' OA)
% articles that are Open Access
(N = c1850 articles)
Data: Bjork et al, 2010
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New mandatory policies (2012)Portugal: 3 institutional mandatesSpain: 1 institutional mandateArgentina: 1 multi-institutional mandateUS: 4 institutional 1 sub-institutionalUK: 1 revised funder mandateEU: 1 multi-national funder mandateMore to be announced this week (Open Access Week 2012)
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Mandates covering agricultural research
ICRISAT (Intl Crops Res Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics) (international)Indian Inst Horticultural Research (thesis mandate)Jomo Kenyatta Univ Agriculture & TechnologyWageningen Univ (thesis mandate)INRAUniversities with faculties of agricultureVarious research funders
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Resources1. General, comprehensive resource on Open Access:
OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook)www.openoasis.org
2. Resource for policymakers, institutional managers:EOS (Enabling Open Scholarship)
www.openscholarship.org
3. Open Access Mapwww.openaccessmap.org