1. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Opening up Research Content in the NHS: Open Access and the Finch report Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk London Health Libraries NHS HE Conference 2012

2. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contents 1.Open Access – the essentials 2.The Finch Report  Its significance for Higher Education 3.The Finch Report  The problem for the NHS  Journal licensing  Open Access 4.Conclusions? 2

3. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contents 1.Open Access – the essentials 2.The Finch Report  Its significance for Higher Education 3.The Finch Report  The problem for the NHS  Journal licensing  Open Access 4.Conclusions? 3

4. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access  A revolution in the way research material is disseminated across the globe  For an introduction and overview, see:  http://www.leru.org/files/publications/LERU_AP8_Open_Access.pdf http://www.leru.org/files/publications/LERU_AP8_Open_Access.pdf 4

5. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Open Access – the essential definitions  Open Knowledge is ‘any kind of information – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, re- used, and redistributed’ (Open Knowledge Foundation definition)  Green route has been defined as the route where copies of peer-reviewed research outputs are made freely available on the web, using an Open Access repository, alongside any formal published versions  Gold route has been defined as journal publishing operating with a business model not based on subscription, but rather on either publication charges (where the author or an organization on behalf of the author funds the publishing costs) or on subsidy 5

6. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contents 1.Open Access – the essentials 2.The Finch Report  Its significance in Higher Education 3.The Finch Report  The problem for the NHS  Journal licensing  Open Access 4.Conclusions? 6

7. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES  See http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/  Report to Department of Business, Innovation and Skills  UCL responses  See http://poynder.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/finch-report-in-global- open-access.html and http://poynder.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/finch-report-ucls-david- price-responds.htmlhttp://poynder.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/finch-report-in-global- open-access.html http://poynder.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/finch-report-ucls-david- price-responds.html 7 Finch Recommendations

8. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES  Gold Open Access is the future  UK produces 6% of world’s global research output  For an extra £38 million to UK HE, UK research outputs could be published as Gold OA research outputs  Green OA would be for grey literature, theses 8 Finch Recommendations

9. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Finch Recommendations  National licensing solutions could extend access to the National Health Service, SMEs (Small + Medium sized Enterprises)  £6 million - £12 million extra a year for equality of access across HE  £1 million - £2 million a year for access by the NHS 9

10. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES For an individual institutional policy, as things stand, Green is the only affordable and practical option JISC Report by John Houghton and Alma Swan - Going for Gold? – see http://ie- repository.jisc.ac.uk/610http://ie- repository.jisc.ac.uk/610 10 Finch Recommendations

11. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Debate in the UK  Debate in the UK is polarised between the benefits of Green or Gold  2 solutions not mutually exclusive  Finch talks about a Gold OA future, not set in a timeframe  Also relies on the whole world going Gold OA  Houghton and Swan look at transition issues and the position NOW  World will not go Gold OA overnight  For the short to medium term, Green route is more cost effective 11

12. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES UK Government funding 12 7 September 2012

13. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES RCUK policy  RCUK policy on Open Access  See http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/outputs.aspxhttp://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/outputs.aspx  Reveals a strong preference for Gold, in line with Finch  In the first year (2013/14), RCUK will fund around 45% of Research Council funded research papers to be published using Gold Open Access  Growing to over 50% in the second year  By the fifth year (2017/18) funding is expected to be provided to enable approximately 75% of Research Council funded research papers to be published using Gold Open Access  The remaining 25% of Research Council funded papers will be delivered via the Green Open Access model 13

14. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contents 1.Open Access – the essentials 2.The Finch Report  Its significance in Higher Education 3.The Finch Report  The problem for the NHS  Journal licensing  Open Access 4.Conclusions 14

15. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Access for NHS constituents to Wellcome- funded research content 15 NHS level of access2005 (% of content)2012 (% of content) No embargo6.66.7 6-12 month embargo6.7 2-24 month embargo27.7 % with no direct access86.7%65.6% HE level of access * No embargo88.296.4 3-12 month embargonot surveyed0.8 % with no direct access11.8%2.8%

16. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES GMC National Training results (2012)  UK-wide, only 55.11% of medical trainees considered the provision of online journals to be good or very good  Proportion who thought provision very good was only 12.45%  See http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/surveys.asphttp://www.gmc-uk.org/education/surveys.asp 16

17. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Finch Recommendations  National licensing solutions could extend access to the National Health Service, SMEs (Small + Medium sized Enterprises)  £6 million - £12 million extra a year for equality of access across HE  £1 million - £2 million a year for access by the NHS 17

18. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Journal licensing  Approach being made to NHS to find funding Finch identified via NHS research budgets  Discussion being led for NHS by UCL Partners  Possible sources of funding:  Health Education England (HEE)  Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs)  Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs)  JISC Collections can advise on procurement top-up 18

19. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Open Access  Studies like Finch and Houghton/Swan suggest that the future for research dissemination is increasingly via Open Access  LERU Roadmap shows that all 21 LERU universities have Green repositories  What is the NHS position on Open Access?  If NHS research is funded by public investment, it should be freely available 19

20. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Access for NHS constituents to Wellcome- funded research content 20  2012 represents an opportunity  Challenge  NHS in London could work with UK HE to establish a Green Open Access repository/repositories for NHS research  Benefits  NHS research would be more easily available  NHS researchers would gain more visibility by being downloaded more often  Open Access support evidence-based health-care agenda

21. UCL LIBRARY SERVICES And finally…  Thank you for listening  If you have been…  Happy to (try and) answer any questions 21