As a result of the mandates

As a result of the mandates Research in the open How mandates work in practice 29 th May, 2009 Paul Davey, UK PubMed Central Engagement Manager, British Library

A little background

Aim is to become the information resource of choice for the UK’s biomedical and health research community

Supported from biomedical and health research organisations and government bodies

£1.2 million development programme

Common principles of our funders

Freely available

‘ Make freely available research outputs arising from biomedical and health funded research….

Added to UK PubMed Central

… Electronic copies of any biomedical research papers accepted for publication made available in UK PubMed Central….

Freely copied and reused

… Authors and publishers, if an open access fee has been paid, to licence research papers such that they may be freely copied and re-used for purposes such as text and data mining, provided that such uses are fully attributed. This is also encouraged where no fee has been paid.’

An example: Department of Health view

Research Government framework – clear government policy to provide free access to research being undertaken and its findings (following appropriate review)

Preservation of research outputs for current, and future, generations to access

Electronic copies of any research papers accepted for publication must be submitted to UK PubMed Central within six months of publication

Links to ALL funder’s open access policies can be found at ukpmc.ac.uk/funders

A few facts and figures

Around 99.5% of papers submitted are taken care of by the publishers

Remaining 0.5% or so (final copy of the manuscript) are submitted by PIs, or colleagues

Compliance is steadily increasing, as funder’s policies kick in (these were by and large instigated with grants awarded from 2007)

1.6 million+ papers in UK PubMed Central

Downloads are increasing – from 42,646 in May 2008

to 366,030 in April 2009

A growing archive of peer-reviewed research papers, accessible by everyone, anywhere, free.

Some core benefits

Transparency and cutting down potential duplication– could even help advance scientific research

Brings greater visibility to researchers and their work

Additional benefits

The articles enable us to work with researchers and funders Developing useful, exciting and innovative tools and services

So, as a result of the mandates, we have…

Tools / services: exploiting the literature

With the research articles the aim is to:

Enable researchers to exploit the scientific literature, by linking to other relevant life sciences databases…reached through EBI’s CiteXplore ( www.ebi.ac.uk/citexplore )

To ensure relevance, we could work from top level assumption that biomedical and health research scientists are broadly interested in three areas:

Chemistry

Medicine

Biology

(Dietrich Rebholz-Schuman, MD, PhD, Leader - Rebholz Group, European Bioinformatics Institute, May 2009)

Cell type Drug dosage Chemicals Method Protein / Gene Chemical part: methods section

Biological part: drugs acting on proteins Drug (cause) Protein / Gene

Drug (cause) Cell type Disease type Medical part: growth of prostate cancer cells

Tools / services: Identifying and adding content

Identifying and providing access to a wide-range of additional, valuable content, such as clinical guidelines, theses and single issue research reports

- E.g. we are ingesting National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines

Tools / services: Grant Lookup

Tools / services: Grant reporting and other features

Grant reporting – My UKPMC

My UKPMC: Specific features for users

New, intuitive, user tested interface

In summary

We have the backing of key funders in the UK

Our developments will enable researchers to become more efficient and effective

Researcher’s visibility will increase, whilst cutting down on duplication

Developing a resource with a UK identity and the needs of our community in mind, whilst building upon the world-wide recognition of PubMed Central in the United States