ukpmc.ac.uk 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

ukpmc.ac.uk 2 As a result of the mandates 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

ukpmc.ac.uk 3 As a result of the mandates 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.’

ukpmc.ac.uk 4 As a result of the mandates 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

ukpmc.ac.uk 5 As a result of the mandates 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

ukpmc.ac.uk 6 As a result of the mandates 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…

ukpmc.ac.uk 7 As a result of the mandates 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 ( 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)

ukpmc.ac.uk 8 As a result of the mandates Cell type Drug dosage Chemicals Method Protein / Gene Chemical part: methods section

ukpmc.ac.uk 9 As a result of the mandates Biological part: drugs acting on proteins Drug (cause) Protein / Gene

ukpmc.ac.uk 10 As a result of the mandates Drug (cause) Cell type Disease type Medical part: growth of prostate cancer cells

ukpmc.ac.uk 11 As a result of the mandates 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

ukpmc.ac.uk 12 As a result of the mandates Tools / services: Grant Lookup

ukpmc.ac.uk 13 As a result of the mandates Tools / services: Grant reporting and other features

ukpmc.ac.uk 14 As a result of the mandates Grant reporting – My UKPMC

ukpmc.ac.uk 15 As a result of the mandates My UKPMC: Specific features for users

ukpmc.ac.uk 16 As a result of the mandates New, intuitive, user tested interface

ukpmc.ac.uk 17 As a result of the mandates 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 Beta site: October 2009 Anticipated launch of new website: January 2012 Contact: UK PubMed Central Engagement Manager