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Reusing Open Access content & HEFCE policy on Open Access
The document summarizes the HEFCE Open Access policy introduced in April 2014 that requires journal articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN produced by UK higher education institutions to be made available through open access repositories with a maximum embargo period of 12 months for STEM fields and 24 months for arts, humanities, and social science fields. It also discusses the benefits of the policy in permanently changing author habits, enabling broader discoverability of research outputs, and being low-cost for universities. Improvements mentioned include shortening embargo periods, including books and book chapters, and requiring authors to retain rights to their publications.
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- 1. HEFCE Open AccessPolicy Dr. Nancy Pontika CORE (COnnecting REpositories) Knowledge Media institute The Open University United Kingdom @nancypontika
- 2. Higher Education FundingCouncil for England (HEFCE) Total HEFCE grant available for the 2015 – 2016 academic year is £3,971 million 18.5% 39.2% 35.7%
- 3. Research Excellence Framework(REF) Excellence – Impact – Implementation ● Quality Research Outputs – 65% ● Impact – 20% ● Research Environment – 15% Horizon2020: Maximise impact with Open Access and Open Data
- 4. HEFCE Open AccessPolicy Introduced 1st April 2014 – Implementation date 1st April 2016 ● Green policy – compliance via repositories ● Journal articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN ● Maximum embargo periods: 12 mos. STEM, 24 mos. AHSS ● Machine readable access ● Deposit time frame: 3 months
- 5. Major UK OAPolicies and Horizon2020 UK provides 60% of outputs via green OA Policy Output type Green/Gold OA Embargo License HEFCE Policy Journal articles & Conference Proceedings Green 12 mos. STEM 24 mos. AHSS Machine readable Horizon2020 Policy All peer- reviewed scientific publications Green 6 mos. STEM 12 mos. AHSS Machine readable RCUK Policy Journal articles & Conference Proceedings Preference on Gold but Green is possible 12 mos. STEM 24 mos. AHSS CC-BY or CC-BY-NC
- 6. HEFCE Policy :benefits & improvements Benefits: ● Permanently change author habits ● Enables broader discoverability of the output ● Green is cheap for universities Improvements: ● Shorter embargo periods ● Inclusion of books or chapters like Horizon2020 ● Require authors to retain the rights of their publications
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- 8. Reusing and Reproducing OpenAccess Content Dr. Nancy Pontika CORE (COnnecting REpositories) Knowledge Media institute The Open University United Kingdom @nancypontika
- 9. What does “researchreusability” mean? Ascertaining scientific results! ● Availability of the scientific method ● Allows research reproduction ● Enables transparency in research methodology ● Saves money and time for researchers and universities ● Increases impact of the research work
- 10. What can bemade reusable? Everything that could possibly be useful! ● Laboratory notebooks/diaries ● Methodology details ● Experiment results ● Software code ● Equipment details ● Ground theory of the experiment ● Application details, i.e. background modelling ● Mathematical proofs
- 11. Guidelines to enableOpen Science ● Code ● Data ● Documentation ● Workflow
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- 13. Discovering Content Services ● CORE– metadata and full-text harvesting of open access research outputs and API ● OpenDOAR – open access repositories around the world ● Jisc Publications Router – metadata and full-text from journals and subject repositories ● Directory of Open Access Journals – lists worldwide open access journals ● SHERPA RoMEO – copyright and archiving policies ● SHERPA Juliet - research funders' open access policies
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