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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES

Science 2.0: Open Access to research publications

Dr Paul Ayris

Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright OfficerChief Executive, UCL PressPresident of LIBER (Association of European Research LibrariesChair, LERU Chief Information Officer community (League of European Research Universities)

e-mail: [email protected]


Contents

European Context LERU Roadmap

Towards Open Access

UK context Finch Report RCUK Policy REF 2020

UCL Infrastructures DART-Europe UCL Discovery Gold OA payments

UCL Press

UCL futures


Bibliography Rachel Hill and Martin Moyle (2010) Investigating the impact

of e-theses at DCU. Presented at: LIBER 2010 Annual Conference, Aarhus, Denmark. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/19955/

LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access (2011) http://www.leru.org/files/publications/LERU_AP8_Open_Access.pdf

Finch Report (2012). Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/

UCL Responses (2012) http://poynder.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/finch-report-in-global-open-ac

cess.html and http://poynder.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/finch-report-ucls-david-price-responds.html


Bibliography

RCUK Policy on Open Access (2012, updated 2013) http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/outputs/

John Houghton and Alma Swan, Going for Gold? The costs and benefits of Gold Open Access for UK research institutions: further economic modelling. (2012)

Scott Jaschik, Not so Fast on Open Access (2012) http://blog.historians.org/2012/09/aha-statement-on-scholarly-journ

al-publishing/

UCL Open Access website (2013-) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access


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Founded in 2002, LERU advocates education through an awareness of the frontiers of human understanding; the creation of new knowledge through basic research, which is the ultimate source of innovation in society; and the promotion of research across a broad front in partnership with industry and society at large.

The purpose of the League is to advocate these values, to influence policy in Europe and to develop best practice through mutual exchange of experience. LERU regularly publishes a variety of papers and reports which make high-level policy statements, provide in-depth analyses and make concrete recommendations for policymakers, universities, researchers and other stakeholders.

21 member universities


The Mappa Mundi '... it is without parallel the most important and most celebrated medieval map in any form, the most remarkable illustrated English manuscript of any kind, and certainly the greatest extant thirteenth-century pictorial manuscript.‘ Christopher de Hamel

Mappa Mundi


Benefits of Open Access Institutional

Provides a front-end to the whole of a University’s research output

Supports marketing for a University’s offering across the globe Personal

Citation advantage for those who disseminate in Open Access Society

Enables new communities outside Higher Education to view blue-skies research, e.g. Small/Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Political Decision and Policy Makers will have full access to

University’s research


Green route

Institutional repositories provide a basis for Open Access approaches (para. 20)

Costs vary from €30,000 - €242,000 per year in the UK (para. 22)

Communications Strategy needed to support advocacy (para. 23)

Universities need to be clear about what type of material is being deposited (para. 25)

Roadmap available at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1310639/


Green route

University of Helsinki requires authors to deposit copies of their research articles published in academic journals in HELDA – the institutional repository (para. 25)

Open Access Strategy should be embedded in pan-University Strategies (para. 30) Research Copyright Teaching & Learning


Green route

LERU Universities can consider adopting Open Access mandates at an institutional level (paras 32-34)

Authors should not assign their copyright to publishers Better model is for authors to grant non-exclusive rights to an

author to publish (para. 35)

Research data, once made available in Open Access, opens up opportunities for re-use and collaboration (para. 36)


Gold route

Changes are taking place in scholarly publishing across the world and LERU institutions are not exempt (para. 40)

Sustainable Business Models for Gold Open Access publishing need to be developed (para. 42)

Two models currently exist Full Open Access journals Hybrid Journals, which allow Author-Pays charges

Problem of ‘double dipping’ should be addressed (paras 43-4)


Gold route

LERU, perhaps with others, could investigate reductions in Author Payment charges with publishers and membership fees with Open Access publishers (para. 46)

Changes to existing publishing models will incur transition costsLERU and/or other Universities can work with other

stakeholders to leverage funding (para. 48) LERU institutions can work with Open Access monograph

publishersParticularly where the languages are other than English

(para. 49)


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See http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/Report to Department of Business, Innovation and Skills

UCL responsesSee 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.html

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Finch Report


Finch Recommendations

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

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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/610

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OA costs / savings


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

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RCUK Policy

RCUK policy follows a broad Finch line The Research Councils UK (RCUK) policy supports both

‘Gold’ and ‘Green’ routes to Open Access Although RCUK has a preference for immediate Open

Access with the maximum opportunity for re-use CC-BY licence required For embargoes, 6 months for STEM, 12 months for AHSS,

only are allowed


RCUK Policy

Gold APC payments now longer an allowable cost under in Research Council grants

Central funds provided by RCUK to universities to pay for APCs UCL administers funds by OA Team based in the Library

Target for UCL papers in 1 April 2013-31 March 2014 is 555 papers

Projected figure to be attained: 566 – 102%


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REF 2020

HEFCE proposing an Open Access requirement for journal articles and conference proceedings

Monographs would be exempt Start of requirement would be 2016? Set % compliance by individual REF Board or make

exceptions on a case by case basis Announcement expected Spring 2014


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DART-EuropeE-Theses portal for Open Access

Portal for discovery of European research theses in Open Access Run by UCL (University College London) for LIBER At http://www.dart-europe.eu

Access to 466,603 open access research theses from 551 Universities in 28 European countries


Open Access to research theses

Theses freely available in Open Access are more heavily used than paper equivalents

Example: Dublin City University, 2009

518 consultations of paper theses

16,212 downloads for the equivalent digital theses See: Hill, R. and Moyle, M. (2010)

http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/19955


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UCL Discovery: Open Access growth

• Availability of UCL OA via UCL Discovery• Figures comprise local Green FT and records with links to external OA


UCL Discovery: Green deposit


UCL Discovery: OA content by publication year


UCL Discovery downloads

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total2013 334,159 343,262 320,162 379,428 1,377,0112012 213,402 245,836 229,864 349,688 1,038,7902011 146,748 155,152 107,601 175,464 584,9652010 117,514 133,024 128,924 146,690 526,152

Lifetime downloads (from Feb 08): 4,013,564

Download # 4 million: Gillies, D. (2003) Probability and uncertainty in Keynes's The General Theory. In: Mizuhara, S. and Runde, J., (eds.) The Philosophy of Keynes' Economics: Probability, Uncertainty and Convention. (pp. 108-126). Routledge: London, UK. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/16387

• Full-text download counts to end December 2013


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Main stumbling block to Gold OA is cost of APC (Article Processing Charges)

Finch estimated average APC as £1450 per article

Government now (31/1/14) calls for publishers to reduce subscription rates at institutional level

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Policy Developments


Who pays?

Funders UCL Decision Tree at

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/ plots path for individual researchers

General OA Guide also available

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APC payments

JISC Collections trialling a shared service to UK universities

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OAK will manage OA funds held in universities

And payments for APCs for Gold OA publishing


RCUK workflow process

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APC route is complex and granular


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The view from Arts and Humanities?

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http://blog.historians.org/2012/09/aha-statement-on-scholarly-journal-publishing/


Monograph Publishing

Is Open Access a solution to broken Business Model?

University Press takes on role as Open Access monograph publisher

Long form monographs, peer reviewed

Short monographs in AHSS – new publishing format?

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UCL Special Collections, 15th century Book of Hours, with 19th century additions. MS. Lat. 25


UCL Press

Founded 1 August 2013 UCL imprint repatriated in-

house UCL from commercial publisher

Monograph prospectus published

Journals and Textbooks in scope

Open Access Press European collaborations

St Michael, by John Flaxman, UCL


Shared European infrastructure for monographs?

19 European partners, led by UCL Shared publishing infrastructure

with Open Access business models Research monographs in the Arts,

Humanities and Social Sciences OAPEN to provide much of the

technical infrastructure Launched at UCL in

December 2013

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UCL Special Collections. Pentateuch, 1666. STRONG ROOM MOCATTA Q B 12 TAR


What could be achieved?

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OUTPUTS

Shared publishing infrastructure Shared by 19 partners Scaleable to all European Universities Advocacy for new solutions to solve monograph crisis

Marketing frameworks

Business Modelling activities

At least 180 OA monographs in 35 series


Indicative series in European collaboration

35 series titles proposed in total Subject area

Media History and Film Theory Media studies, Film theory

Spirituality Studies in Theology Theology

World Oral Literature Series Literary Studies

Iranian Studies Middle Eastern Studies

Law, Governance and Development Research

Law, International Studies

Interdisciplinary Issues - Art, City, Society Urban Studies

New Ideas in Human Interaction Linguistics

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Master Repository

Publication Management

Suite

Institutional repository

AuthorsEditorial boards

APIsOAI-PMH

etc

DP support

Public Catalogue

Formattransformer

Secure delivery

PluginDOAB

Finance

Order management

University Admin

Orders plugin?

BookMaster XML

Metadata

OA BookPDF

BPCs Subs

Kindle Hard copy

Other e-versions

OA BookPDF

On demand

Orders plugin?

Orders plugin?

Secure payment

Requests

Fulfilment

Paid-forversions

Technical

Editorial


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UCL Futures?

A new dawn With a new

Strategy and approach

OA an opportunity, not a threat

Removing barriers to access

Placing university research and teaching to the fore


And Now

Breakouts and Discussion


Breakouts and Discussion

What should an institutional policy on Open Access say?

What are the benefits of Open Access for researchers in Education?

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