4th March 2002Tim Brody 1 A joint JISC/NSF project

4th March 2002Tim Brody 2 Contents Self-archiving –What’s important? –Self-archiving –Budapest Open Access Initiative When the (refereed) Literature is Freed –Academic CVs –Improved Searching –Analysis Summary

4th March 2002Tim Brody 3 What’s important? Access most critical to users Impact most critical to authors Quality important to research Anything else is optional

4th March 2002Tim Brody 4 Self-archiving in one Sentence All the Refereed, Published Literature, Freely Accessible Online, for Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere

4th March 2002Tim Brody 5 Why self-archiving? Emphasises access (and hence impact) Rapid dissemination “Articles freely available online are more highly cited” – Lawrence Nature (2001) Level playing field: between institutions, countries, developed vs developing

4th March 2002Tim Brody 6 Budapest Open Access Initiative supports self-archiving Launched February 14 th 2002 Promoting free access to research literature through self-archiving and alternative publishing models In one week over 1,000 individuals and close to 100 organizations have signed including Library of Congress, the Association of Research Libraries, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the Australian Vice Chancellors Committee and a growing number of individual universities. Backed by the Soros Open Society Institute

4th March 2002Tim Brody 7 When the (refereed) Literature is Freed Online Academic CVs linked to full-texts in institutional Eprint Archives Universal searching New impact indicators (search ranking) New digitometric analyses Continuous research assessment (RAE)

4th March 2002Tim Brody 8 Online Academic CVs Institutional record of a researcher’s output Provide a personal bibliography with an EPrints.org extract Make research assessment simpler (an obvious advantage to encourage authors to self-archive!)

4th March 2002Tim Brody 9 Cross-Publisher Searching Questions: –Can I search the refereed literature with Google? –If I use an abstract service how do I get the full-text? –If I search an electronic journal, do I have to repeat my search for every electronic journal? Answer: –EPrints.org archives of refereed literature expose articles to Google indexing, or via OAI to metadata harvesters/search engines (e.g. arXiv.org in Scirus)

4th March 2002Tim Brody 10 citebaseSearch (shameless plug for self) Part of the Open Citation Project “Google for the refereed literature” (currently arXiv.org …) Harvests Metadata using OAI-PMH Provides impact (and other)-ranked search based on reference data extracted from arXiv.org Re-exports Metadata+References

4th March 2002Tim Brody 11 Impact Indicators (citebaseSearch) Currently 6 possible ranking criteria (will be extended to include by Journal Impact, plus other innovations)

4th March 2002Tim Brody 12 Impact Indicators (citebaseSearch) Ranking by how many times articles are co-cited with “oai:arXiv:hep-th/ ”

4th March 2002Tim Brody 13 Analysis of Research (OpCit Research 2000 – arXiv.org articles)

4th March 2002Tim Brody 14 Analysis of Research (OpCit Research 2000 – arXiv.org articles)

4th March 2002Tim Brody 15 Analysis of Research (OpCit Research 2000 – arXiv.org articles)

4th March 2002Tim Brody 16 Research Assessment (the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) assesses institutional research impact nationally and internationally, which is then partially used to determine research funding) EPrints.org institutional archives provide a record of research output Federating tools can be used to assess the impact of that research New indicators with greater coverage: hits, assessing quality of collaborations, … "Why I think research access, impact and assessment are linked." – Harnad THES (2001)

4th March 2002Tim Brody 17 Summary Access is essential to the user and to impact Impact is essential to the author and to research Quality comes from peer-review Self-archiving is one way to achieve universal access to the peer-reviewed literature (and is possible now with EPrints.org software) Anything else can be built on the freed, online refereed literature: –CVs, Searching, gateways, analysis, …

4th March 2002Tim Brody 18 Resources Slides: Tim Brody (University of Southampton) CiteBase Search – Open Citation Project – OpCit Papers & Research – Self-archiving FAQ (Stevan Harnad) – Budapest Open Access Initiative – Free Online Scholarship (Peter Suber) – Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH, federating services, etc.) –