Open Access:publication and impact

Theo AndrewDigital Library Section

University of Edinburgh

Talk outline

• Background– Types of open access ‘Gold v Green’– Government drivers: Finch report

• Change: research funders expectations• Likely implementation at UoE• Implications• 3 step personal OA strategy

….the world-wide electronic distribution of

scholarly literature… …completely free from restrictions….

….for all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds.

is….

Gold open access

• Peer reviewed journals• publication costs are met by the research

funder through APCs, rather than subscriptions,

• articles are licensed in ways which allow others to reuse these works, subject to attribution.

• Average cost £1000

Green open access

• publish in a subscription journal, • self-archive copies of papers in suitable place, – e.g. PURE Research Explorer

• Journal copyright policy permitting:– Rule of Thumb: author's refereed, revised final

draft is OK for institutional web pages/ repository

Inclusion and Exclusion: NGOs and Politics in ZimbabweSara Rich Dorman, 2001

(Hybrid option)

• Subscription journal offering Gold OA on article level basis:– Elsevier sponsored articles– Wiley OnlineOpen option– Royal Society Publishing• (Institutional membership 25% discount)

– Nature Publishing Group– OUP & CUP

• Tend to have higher APC ~£1500

Finch report (18 June)

“a clear policy direction should be set towards support for publication in open access or hybrid journals, funded by APCs, as the main vehicle for the publication of research, especially when it is publicly funded”

Mark Walport: the UK government’s next science advisor

http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch

RCUK: New policyPeer reviewed research papers that are wholly or partially funded by RCUK:• must be published as Gold or Green OA,• must include details of the funding that

supported the research, • and a statement on how the underlying

research materials – such as data, samples or models – can be accessed.

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The ESRC’s Open Access Policy requires peer-reviewed research papers to be deposited into ESRC impacts and findings research catalogue:

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/impacts-and-findings/research-catalogue/index.aspx

Implementation

• Preference for Gold OA, supported by block grants:– £609,000 for Nov12- April 2013• (Initial pump priming payment)

– £830,000 for 2013/14– £977,000 for 2014/15

• Green OA also acceptable; up to institution to decide.

RCUK targets

• The RCUK is taking a phased approach over the coming five years:

(UoE publishes 4-5000 articles/year; we estimate 1300 of these are funded by RCUK)

Year 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18

Gold 45%(585)

53%(689)

60%(780)

67%(871)

75%(975)

Green 5%(65)

10%(130)

15%(195)

20%(260)

25%(325)

Where does that leave us?

• Large scale shift coming.• Researchers will be exposed to the costs of

publication (previously sheltered by the library).

• Will publishers increase their APCs to maximise profit?

• Will we see proportional reductions in journal subscriptions?

Wellcome Trust OA grant at UoE

Year No.of articles Total cost Mean APC

2007/08 19 £32,712.85 £1,721.73

2008/09 38 £58,648.88 £1,543.39

2009/10 49 £90,304.78 £1,842.95

2010/11 67 £124,359.79 £1,856.11

2011/12 87 £146,687.10 £1,686.06

Total 260 £452,713.40 £1,741.21

APC cost v Impact Factor

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• Hybrid journals seem to be more popular venues for Open Access publication, and

• Hybrid journals generally charge more than full OA journals independent of journal impact factor, and

• There is a positive correlation between APC cost and impact factor for both hybrid and full OA journals.

APC observations

Research lifecycleIdeas

Partners

ProposalResearch process

Publication

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/res3/jischelp.aspx

Research lifecycle(s)

Publication is not the end, but the start for someone else:• New ideas• Collaboration• IMPACT

3 step personal OA strategy

1. Save a copy of authors final

manuscript

2. Add document to

PURE

3. Automatically added to the

Edinburgh Research Explorerwww.pure.ed.ac.uk

www.research.ed.ac.uk

Maximise your impact

Further reading

• Impact of Social Sciences LSE blog (5 mins)– http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/201

2/09/18/cash-alone-will-not-cure-the-research-market/

• D-Lib Magazine Sept 2012, Vol 18, No 9/10 (20mins)– http://

www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/harnad/09harnad.html

• SPARC OA newsletter #165 (2-3 hours)– http

://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-12.htm