Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
Slides that I will speak to at the inaugural meeting of OpenResLDN on 19th January 2015. January 2015 sees the 350th anniversary of the first ever journal publication - the Journal des Savants. We are now in the 21st year of the Open Access movement and the UK and European policies are really beginning to drive change and innovation. That change is not fast enough for some, and for others - particularly those covered by the policies, or seeking to implement policy - just a little too fast sometimes.
"Designing practitioner research for impact" Miggie Pickton, DARTS4ARLGSW
Miggie will highlight the growing importance of impact in research generally including impact case studies in the REF, funders’ demands for impact statements in research proposals, and employers requiring impact on service. This section will make a link between librarians supporting researchers and doing (and using) research themselves. This will lead on to looking at opportunities for making an impact in practitioner research.
Encouraging Openness and how stakeholder policies can support or block it!"CIARD Movement
Funders, authors and readers may want open access to research, but can they achieve it? A researcher who has been encouraged to make their work open has to deal with regulations, guidance, and mandates from their institution, their funders, their publisher and their national government. These policies are often complex and can be ambiguous, or in conflict with each other.
A supportive policy environment and guidance through the relationship of one policy to another has proved to be essential for real progress in opening access to research. How should policies support the researcher and the research process? How can policies based on commercial profit fit into an open environment? What role do funders have in protecting their investment and the public interest?
Presented by Bill Hubbard
Bill Hubbard is the Director of the Centre for Research Communications (CRC) at the University of Nottingham, incorporating the work of SHERPA. The CRC has a portfolio of Open Access projects and services and is a recognised centre of expertise for OA development, policy, repositories and infrastructure.
Bill created the award-winning OA services RoMEO, JULIET and OpenDOAR, which are used around the world to unpick details of stakeholder policies, development policy and which underpin repository use. The CRC have also recently launched FACT, to support researchers in complying with specific RCUK and Wellcome Trust OA polices. Bill has also worked closely with OA publishers and advised on the transitions involved for commercial publishers from traditional to OA business models.
Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
Slides that I will speak to at the inaugural meeting of OpenResLDN on 19th January 2015. January 2015 sees the 350th anniversary of the first ever journal publication - the Journal des Savants. We are now in the 21st year of the Open Access movement and the UK and European policies are really beginning to drive change and innovation. That change is not fast enough for some, and for others - particularly those covered by the policies, or seeking to implement policy - just a little too fast sometimes.
"Designing practitioner research for impact" Miggie Pickton, DARTS4ARLGSW
Miggie will highlight the growing importance of impact in research generally including impact case studies in the REF, funders’ demands for impact statements in research proposals, and employers requiring impact on service. This section will make a link between librarians supporting researchers and doing (and using) research themselves. This will lead on to looking at opportunities for making an impact in practitioner research.
Encouraging Openness and how stakeholder policies can support or block it!"CIARD Movement
Funders, authors and readers may want open access to research, but can they achieve it? A researcher who has been encouraged to make their work open has to deal with regulations, guidance, and mandates from their institution, their funders, their publisher and their national government. These policies are often complex and can be ambiguous, or in conflict with each other.
A supportive policy environment and guidance through the relationship of one policy to another has proved to be essential for real progress in opening access to research. How should policies support the researcher and the research process? How can policies based on commercial profit fit into an open environment? What role do funders have in protecting their investment and the public interest?
Presented by Bill Hubbard
Bill Hubbard is the Director of the Centre for Research Communications (CRC) at the University of Nottingham, incorporating the work of SHERPA. The CRC has a portfolio of Open Access projects and services and is a recognised centre of expertise for OA development, policy, repositories and infrastructure.
Bill created the award-winning OA services RoMEO, JULIET and OpenDOAR, which are used around the world to unpick details of stakeholder policies, development policy and which underpin repository use. The CRC have also recently launched FACT, to support researchers in complying with specific RCUK and Wellcome Trust OA polices. Bill has also worked closely with OA publishers and advised on the transitions involved for commercial publishers from traditional to OA business models.
A presentation given at the first ever Open Research London on what students around the world are doing, the Open Access Button and how to get involved.
Uncovering Open Access: seizing the moment and making it work for you – experiences from the ground
Presentation by Karen Bruns, Marketign Manager HSRC Press South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference
Whose Property Is It Anyway? Part 2: The Challenges in Supporting the UK’s Ma...LIBER Europe
Whose Property Is It Anyway? Part 2: The Challenges in Supporting the UK’s Main Research Funder Agendas which Seek to Ensure that the Outputs from Publicly-Funded Research are Published Open Access
Chris Banks, Imperial College London, UK. This presentation was one of the 10 most highly ranked at LIBER's Annual Conference 2014 in Riga, Latvia. Learn more: www.libereurope.eu
"Open Access: recalibrating the relationships" Neil Jacobs, DARTS4ARLGSW
Neil will focus on the lessons from the Jisc-APC pilot, and how the workflows around all forms of OA are changing the roles and responsibilities of information professionals within and beyond the HEI. There are new drivers (eg the HEFCE REF OA policy), new points of contact / transaction (eg Gold OA payments of various kinds), and new opportunities (eg to populate repositories). The talk will explore the workflows that are emerging as effective in addressing these changes, and their implications for all concerned.
Open Access Progress and Promise in the CGIAR ConsortiumCIARD Movement
The presentation provided an overview and update on the CGIAR Consortium's progress in Open Access, including some of the challenges and opportunities of advocating for Open Access across the Consortium.
The webinar was presented by Piers Bocock, Director of Knowledge Management and Communication at the CGIAR Consortium. He is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the Consortium’s Knowledge Management, Communications, and IT strategies, leveraging best practices in these disciplines to help the Consortium deliver on its mandate.
Open Access in the UK - challenges of compliance with funder mandatesChris Banks
This was a presentation given at the LIBER2014 conference in Riga.
See http://liber2014.wp.lnb.lv/programme/papers/abstracts-and-biographies/#ChrisBanks for an abstract and biography.
In the ‘normal’ world of retail and commerce you pay for an item
and receive the item. The world of academic journals is different.
This presentation, based on KAUST’s experience to date, will
attempt to explain the different models of offset pricing while
outlining KAUST’s dual approach, redirecting subscription
money to publishing money and embedding open access terms
in understandable language in our license agreements, to the
problem. Stephen Buck and J K Vijayakumar
King Abdullah University of Saudi Arabia (KAUST)
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Director, Library Services UNISA and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
Social sciences directory liber conference (26.06.2013)SocSciDir
A presentation given by Dan Scott, the founder of 'gold' Open Access publisher Social Sciences Directory Limited, as part of the workshop "Innovative Open Access Publishing Initiatives - and how Libraries/Library Consortia could support such initiatives" at the LIBER conference in Munich, 26th June 2013
A presentation by Jimmy Whitworth as part of the Sustainability and Ownership panel discussion at the International Symposium on Cohort and Longitudinal Studies in Developing Contexts, UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, Florence, Italy 13-15 October 2014
A presentation given at the first ever Open Research London on what students around the world are doing, the Open Access Button and how to get involved.
Uncovering Open Access: seizing the moment and making it work for you – experiences from the ground
Presentation by Karen Bruns, Marketign Manager HSRC Press South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference
Whose Property Is It Anyway? Part 2: The Challenges in Supporting the UK’s Ma...LIBER Europe
Whose Property Is It Anyway? Part 2: The Challenges in Supporting the UK’s Main Research Funder Agendas which Seek to Ensure that the Outputs from Publicly-Funded Research are Published Open Access
Chris Banks, Imperial College London, UK. This presentation was one of the 10 most highly ranked at LIBER's Annual Conference 2014 in Riga, Latvia. Learn more: www.libereurope.eu
"Open Access: recalibrating the relationships" Neil Jacobs, DARTS4ARLGSW
Neil will focus on the lessons from the Jisc-APC pilot, and how the workflows around all forms of OA are changing the roles and responsibilities of information professionals within and beyond the HEI. There are new drivers (eg the HEFCE REF OA policy), new points of contact / transaction (eg Gold OA payments of various kinds), and new opportunities (eg to populate repositories). The talk will explore the workflows that are emerging as effective in addressing these changes, and their implications for all concerned.
Open Access Progress and Promise in the CGIAR ConsortiumCIARD Movement
The presentation provided an overview and update on the CGIAR Consortium's progress in Open Access, including some of the challenges and opportunities of advocating for Open Access across the Consortium.
The webinar was presented by Piers Bocock, Director of Knowledge Management and Communication at the CGIAR Consortium. He is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the Consortium’s Knowledge Management, Communications, and IT strategies, leveraging best practices in these disciplines to help the Consortium deliver on its mandate.
Open Access in the UK - challenges of compliance with funder mandatesChris Banks
This was a presentation given at the LIBER2014 conference in Riga.
See http://liber2014.wp.lnb.lv/programme/papers/abstracts-and-biographies/#ChrisBanks for an abstract and biography.
In the ‘normal’ world of retail and commerce you pay for an item
and receive the item. The world of academic journals is different.
This presentation, based on KAUST’s experience to date, will
attempt to explain the different models of offset pricing while
outlining KAUST’s dual approach, redirecting subscription
money to publishing money and embedding open access terms
in understandable language in our license agreements, to the
problem. Stephen Buck and J K Vijayakumar
King Abdullah University of Saudi Arabia (KAUST)
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Director, Library Services UNISA and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
Social sciences directory liber conference (26.06.2013)SocSciDir
A presentation given by Dan Scott, the founder of 'gold' Open Access publisher Social Sciences Directory Limited, as part of the workshop "Innovative Open Access Publishing Initiatives - and how Libraries/Library Consortia could support such initiatives" at the LIBER conference in Munich, 26th June 2013
A presentation by Jimmy Whitworth as part of the Sustainability and Ownership panel discussion at the International Symposium on Cohort and Longitudinal Studies in Developing Contexts, UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, Florence, Italy 13-15 October 2014
The greatest possible impact: The Wellcome Trust and open researchUoLResearchSupport
Research funders are increasingly recognising the importance of open research practices, to increase the reach and impact of their funded research and to ensure the integrity of research results.
The Wellcome Trust have been leading efforts to make research more open for more than 20 years, ever since working to make sure the results of the Human Genome Project were released immediately into the public domain. They were also the first research funder to introduce a mandatory open access policy, with more than 150 global research funders having since followed their lead. More recently, they have developed the Wellcome Open Research platform, which allow their researchers to rapidly publish and share their findings openly and transparently, and encourage researchers to cite preprints in their grant applications.
On Thursday 17th June we welcome Sonya Towers, Grants Adviser - Immunobiology and Infectious Disease at the Wellcome Trust, to discuss Wellcome’s approach to open research including their Output Management Plan pilot on which they are liaising with the University of Leeds.
UK and US positions on open access – Steven Hill, HEFCE and Sarah Thomas, Harvard University
University of California and university digital library costing models – MacKenzie Smith, UC Davis
Total cost of ownership and flipped OA – Liam Earney, Jisc
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
Samantha Robertson - NHMRC Perspectives on Increasing Access to Data from Pub...Wiley
Governments and industries all over the world are tackling the challenges and opportunities of ‘Big Data’. In view of these challenges, the key drivers of change in this area are the behaviour of researchers, the introduction of incentives or rewards and funding for data sharing infrastructure. Governments and taxpayers also expect a return on investment from the money spent on publically funded research. Building on and learning from the successes (and failures) of others need to be part of the research vernacular. Issues such as open access, data curation, handling of data, and sharing of that data are all matters on which the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has an interest in. NHMRC works with the sector to develop best practise policies on such matters.
Samantha Robertson
Executive Director, NHMRC Evidence, Advice & Governance
Presented at the 2015 Wiley Publishing Seminar, 5 November, Melbourne, Australia.
Incentives for sharing research data – Veerle Van den Eynden, UK Data Service
Incentives to innovate – Joe Marshall, NCUB
Incentives in university collaboration - Tim Lance, NYSERNET
Giving researchers credit for their data – Neil Jefferies, The Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services (BDLSS)
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access in May 2013.
More Details - http://www.ria.ie/about/our-work/policy/ria-initiatives/making-open-access-work-for-ireland.aspx
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Gold open access – a successful model?, Stockholm University October 2011BioMedCentral
This presentation looks into the growth of open access and how institutions can tangibly support authors and mandates. It focuses on how, by increasing open access output, an institution can raise the visibility and impact of research, ultimately increasing both the visibility and prestige of an institution.
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OAA12 - Funding and sustainability: The Wellcome Trust perspective
1. Funding and sustainability: the
Wellcome Trust perspective
Chris Bird
Wellcome Trust
c.bird@wellcome.ac.uk
@chrisbird69
2. The Wellcome Trust
• a global charitable foundation dedicated
to achieving extraordinary improvements
in human and animal health
• we support the brightest minds in
biomedical sciences and medical
humanities in the UK and overseas
• a long-term commitment to research and
capacity building in Africa – aim to enable
research targeted to local health needs
• a passionate commitment to maximising
access to research outputs (including
research papers and data)
3. The Trust’s open access policy
“All research papers – funded in whole or in part by the
Wellcome Trust – must be made freely accessible from
the PubMed Central and UKPMC repositories as soon as
possible, and in any event within six months of the
journal publisher’s official date of final publication”
4. Building sustainability: Funding
• Publication costs are part of
the research costs
• Provide funding to institutions
to cover OA funding
• WT spend on OA publishing is
around £4m a year
• If 100% of WT research was
published via “gold”, it would
represent approx. 1.5% of our
annual research spend
• 1.5% of £650m = £9.75m
5. Building sustainability: supporting
open access infrastructure
• providing dedicated funding to institutions
to meet OA costs
• building the Europe PubMed Central
resource
• working with publishers to ensure their
processes enable and support compliance
• raising awareness of the benefits of OA in
the research community
• announcing a new top-tier, open access
e-journal with the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute and the Max Planck Society
6.
7. “Ground-breaking science, selected by
experts, published without delay, open
for greater influence”
http://www.elifesciences.org/
• a collaboration between world-class funders and the
research community to improve research communication
• an editorial process that reduces revision cycles and
accelerates the publication of new findings
• an open-access journal for highly influential work, from
basic to translational, applied, and clinical research
• a showcase for innovation in the presentation and
assessment of research
• A platform to maximize the reach and influence of new
research and to advance the careers of researchers
Supported by
8.
9. Strengthening our policy
• compliance rate around 55% - still
disappointingly low
• to address this, we have decided to:
– introduce specific sanctions to increase
researcher compliance
– ensure where we pay an open access
fee, license terms ensure full re-use
(including commercial uses)
• political support is growing
− UK government commitment – Finch
group, new RCUK policy
− internationally – encouraging
developments in Europe and the US http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-b
(accessed 15 May 2012)
10. Compliance with Wellcome mandate?
Significant increase from 2006 – but still work to do…
Compliance – around 55%-60%
11. New policy: sanctions for non-compliance
1. In End of Grant Report all papers listed must
be OA. If not the final payment on the grant
(typically 10%) will be withheld
2. Non-compliant publications will be
discounted as part of a researcher’s track
record in any renewal of an existing grant or
new grant application
3. Trust-funded researchers will need to ensure
that all publications associated with their
Wellcome-funded research are OA before
any funding renewals or new grant awards
will be activated
Sanctions aimed at changing behaviour
12. Open access – policy requires CC-BY
OA policy now specifies that
research, for which an OA fee is
paid, must be licenced using CC-
BY
Will introduce this requirement from
April 2013
• Working with RCUK on this
requirement
• Early indicators are that
publishers will offer this licence
option
13. CC-BY: why?
CC-BY now the de facto OA licence
We believe that the full research and economic benefit
of published content will only be realised when there are
no restrictions on access to, and reuse of, this
information
14. Wellcome Trust funding in Africa
• Major Overseas Programmes in
Kenya, Malawi and South Africa
• Capacity building initiatives:
– African Institutions initiative - £30m to
support 7 pan-African consortia
– WT and DFID Health Research
Capacity Strengthening initiative in
Kenya and Malawi
• Other major research funding
− Joint Global Health Trials initiative
(with DFID and MRC)
− H3 Africa (with NIH)
− Malaria Capacity Development
Consortium www.wellcome.ac.uk/aii
− Major longitudinal, cohort studies
15. Research and collaboration in Africa
• Overall volume of research activity remains small – investment as
%GDP very low, even in more resource-rich countries
• Huge variation in research output – South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria
dominate in terms of numbers (but others e.g. Malawi relatively strong
in terms of output quality)
• Collaborative networks reflect historical legacies (e.g. anglophone
countries good links to US and UK), but not clear how great a priority
this is for the G7 partners in current economic climate.
16. Where we are…
• research could make a major contribution to addressing
health and development challenges facing African nations
• some areas of strength – e.g. strong biomedical, public
and clinical research
• but almost all research funded internationally, often with
lack of collaboration in-country:
– lack of national and local (researcher) ownership
– risk of distorted national research agenda
– research evidence not used to inform health policy
• we need…
− high quality training opportunities in research
− excellent research environments
− competitive health research funding opportunities within African
countries at a national level
− partnerships between development and research funders
17. OA and Africa – some perspectives 1
• Gold OA is vital to ensure researchers can immediately
access and use published research findings, wherever they
are based in the world
• but we must ensure that researchers in resource-poor
settings are not restricted in their ability to publish their work
• publication has a cost - we believe strongly that funders
must recognise and resource these costs as integral part of
funding research
• in considering possible models to enable African
researchers to realise the benefits of gold OA, we must
recognise the context and constraints, for example:
– the lack of institutional infrastructure, support and awareness
– current publication practices (e.g. much research never published)
18. OA and Africa – some perspectives 2
Focus on what we as a funder can control / help with:
1. Access to funding
2. Capacity to administer funding
3. Policy flexibility (the “quality issue”)
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