The Open Access landscape (and what might be over the horizon) Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro London LEAP Open Access conference, 11 June 2007
Open Access: What is it? Online Immediate Free (non-restricted) Free (gratis) To the scholarly literature that authors give away Permanent Key Perspectives Ltd
Open Access: Why should we have it? Benefits to researchers themselves Benefits to institutions Benefits to national economies Benefits to science and society Key Perspectives Ltd
What does it do for research? Greater impact from scholarly endeavour More rapid and more efficient progress of scholarship Better assessment, better monitoring, better management of research Novel information-creation using new and advanced technologies Key Perspectives Ltd
The routes to Open Access Publish in an Open Access journal OR Publish in a Closed Access journal that you like and self-archive the paper in your institutional repository Key Perspectives Ltd
Nowadays, fewer signs of this.. I hate open access. For starters, I want my research read by scientists, NOT lay people Open Access is a lot of bull. Good papers are published in top rated journals. Open Access will ultimately lead to unrefereed self-publication of junk. Key Perspectives Ltd
Open Access journals c2500 (approximately 10% of the total number of peer-reviewed journals) Quality Business models What this means for you Key Perspectives Ltd
Open Access repositories circa 950 worldwide LEAP (London E-prints Access Project): 10 repositories now 3 more in development Key Perspectives Ltd
The problem Little content! A Large London College: 2841 items (1973 – present) articles published in 2006 alone (source: Web of Science) Key Perspectives Ltd
Other developments: policy Policies and mandates New attitudes to copyright Research data Key Perspectives Ltd
Other developments: technology New ways of measuring and assessing research and researchers Verification of versions of articles Key Perspectives Ltd
Assessment, impact Journal Impact Factor Article citations (WoS, Google Scholar) Downloads from your repository Key Perspectives Ltd
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Every e-print tells a story… NIPS Workshop linked to this eprint from its web page Link placed on Canonical correlation page in Wikipedia Key Perspectives Ltd
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REPOSITORIES and OA journal content Ingest layer services Search / retrieve Aggregate / display Count / assess Peer review Other value adding Editorial Key Perspectives Ltd
Open new world: the payoff Visibility Acknowledgement Credit Key Perspectives Ltd
More of this… Self-archiving …. has given instant world-wide visibility to my work. As a result, I was invited to submit papers to refereed international conferences/journals and got them accepted. Key Perspectives Ltd
And a solution to the researchers dilemma… My enemy isnt plagiarism, its obscurity Key Perspectives Ltd
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