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Best Practice on Accessibility

Alma SwanKey Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK

University of Southampton (School Electronics & Computer Science)

Warwick Business School

Awayday for Research Institute Directors, 25 October 2007 University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

Metrics

Yes, they are the promised basis of future RAEs

Some idea already of what that might mean Will obviously have to play the RAE game Plenty more metrics to be developed Universities should be thinking about this

and deciding what will be informative to measure in future

Key Perspectives Ltd

The bases for assessment

Need something to measure from Starting point: CRIS data Next point: research outputs Between them: provide a complete

picture of research activity in an institution


Raw material collection

Where from? What? Where ? How? Will it be easy? What is the price of failure?



Where from? The creators of the outputs What? Open Access material (i.e.

outputs in a form that you are permitted to collect and store locally)


Open Access: How?

Open Access journals (www.doaj.org)

Open Access repositories (author ‘self-archiving’)



Where from? The creators of the outputs What? Open Access material (i.e.

outputs in a form that you are permitted to collect and store locally)

Where ? The institution’s repository How? By implementing a policy

Will it be easy? Yes (and no) What is the price of failure? Obscurity


The U.Southampton conundrum…


The G-Factor rankings

(universitymetrics.com)

The creators of the outputs Largely uninformed and unaware Some have realised the benefits

themselves Research funders are assisting (Some) Research publishers are also

assisting Vast majority want clear policies Most people appreciate some help


Author experience so far

Only 24% of authors have submitted an article to an Open Access journal

Only 22% have self-archived in their institutional repository


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Interoperable repositories


But …

Still only 15% of research is Open Access


How to increase repository content

Harvest from websites Harvest from OA journals Provide mediated deposit Put policy in place that ensures the

creators do most of the work


Policies, and mandatory policies

Policy from the NIH (USA) Mandatory policy from Wellcome Trust Mandatory policies from 6 of 7 UK research councils Mandatory policies from the Australian Research

Council and the Australian Medical Research Council An almost-mandate from the DFG and Max Planck

Gesellschaft, Germany An almost-mandate from the FWF, Austria Dutch policy for the universities in the DARE network National policy being developed in Sweden Policy from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research,

etc


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Data courtesy of Arthur Sale Key Perspectives Ltd

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Author readiness to comply with a mandate

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Case study I: ECS, Southampton School of Electronics &

Computer Science, University of Southampton

Mandate early 2003 Sanctioned in the sense

that assessment is based upon repository content

It works


Case study II: Minho University

Minho University, Braga, Portugal

Repository established 2003 Mandate introduced 2005

when self-archiving rate dropped off

Mandate backed by financial incentives paid to departments


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(Data courtesy of Eloy Rodrigues) Key Perspectives Ltd

Case study III: QUT QUT, Brisbane Mandate introduced by

DVC Tom Cochrane at the beginning of 2004

Not sanctioned, but supported by vigorous and sympathetic library advocacy


Carrot-and-stick approach

Carrot(s): Explicit reward (money, RAE return, etc) Advocacy on the use of a repository Information on visibility Information on impact Practical help

Stick: find the right way to say “You will…”


An institutional repository provides researchers with:

The means to disseminate their work, free, to the world

Secure storage (for completed work and for work-in-progress)

A location for supporting data that are unpublished

One-input-many outputs (CVs, publications) Tool for research assessment e-science domain


‘Atkins’ report

‘The primary access to the latest findings in a growing number of fields is through the Web, then through classic preprints and conferences, and lastly through refereed archival papers’.


Visibility

“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.”


Impact

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% increase in citations with Open Access

BiologyEconomics

Political SciHealth SciBusiness

EducationManagement

LawPsychology

SociologyPhysics


Range = 36%-200%(Data: Stevan Harnad and co-workers)

Measure usage and impact (Citebase)


Practical help

Copyright (SHERPA RoMEO)


Publisher permissions (by journal)

62%

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'Green' (postprints) 'Pale green' (preprints) 'Grey' (neither yet)


Practical help

Copyright (SHERPA RoMEO) Mediation Reminders


The stick…

Institution-wide (best, obviously) ‘Patchwork mandate’ (Arthur Sale) Should be backed up by monitoring


Mandate when? At acceptance for publication: the author’s final

version Mandate the deposit at that point

Mandate OA to full-text unless there is a compelling reason against this

If there is a compelling reason, mandate OA to metadata

Mandate opening of full-text at 6 months The publisher’s PDF can be added, or linked

to, later


Summary Policies nice but largely ineffectual Mandates work and so increasing Be smart about how they are implemented Deposit at acceptance (peer reviewed):

Open metadata immediately Open full-text later if necessary

Deposit author’s final version; add published version later if desired


Author readiness to comply with a mandate

0 20 40 60 80 100

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Would complywillingly

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81%

14%

5%


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