International Open Access week at Leeds Met

Dr Harold Varmus
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)

What the Leeds Met Repository can do for you
Presentation 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 repository@leedsmet.ac.uk
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
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/2737698737/
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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 Gilman
First 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 Bone
Past 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

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