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The work of UNICA in the context of new modes of publication and dissemination

Dr Paul Ayris

Chair, UNICA Scholarly Communications GroupDirector of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer

e-mail: [email protected]

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UNICA and the Scholarly Communications debate New models of dissemination

SHERPAat http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

RIOJAat http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/rioja/

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SHERPA RIOJA E-Theses

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The Mission of UNICA Universities

UNICA is a grouping of universities in capital cities in Europe at

http://www.ulb.ac.be/unica/.

Universities are: world-class centres of research and teaching, dedicated to developing

and disseminating original knowledge to benefit the world of the future We believe in engaging fully with the world around us in breaking new ground through challenging convention

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What do our academics want?

Not money, necessarily… As authors

Visibility and Impact As readers

Access to a fully comprehensive body of research literature Transparent delivery 24 x 7

Anytime, Any place, Anywhere Traditional publishing models have delivered enormous

benefits to scholarship through widespread e-delivery They have also raised expectations…

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Less than 60%

100% to walk-in users at UCL

0% remotely online

UCL’s published research outputs

% available digitally to Nottingham researchers?

% available to the general public?

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90% of its funded research is available online

40%‘How accessible is NHS-funded research to the general public and to the NHS's own researchers?’ M. Cockerill, 2004 at http://www.biomedcefsntral.com/openaccess/inquiry/refe

rsubmission.PDF

UK National Health Service

% available to an NHS hospital?

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UNICA and next steps

UNICA’s Scholarly Communications Group has endorsed the EU-funded study on the future of scholarly publishing at http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-

study_en.pdf UNICA has signed the EC petition at http://www.ec-petition.eu/

promoting Open Access ‘I have signed the petition today with the approval of the Steering

Committee of UNICA’: Professor Arthur Mettinger, Vienna, 12/02/07

For UNICA, this is the future which we intend to shape

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SHERPAat http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

RIOJA

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Open Access

Berlin Declaration and Budapest Open Access Initiative underpin developments http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html http://www.soros.org/openaccess/

Open Access means that: The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars

give to the world without expectation of payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed journal articles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints that they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to important research findings. (Budapest Open Access Initiative)

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Berlin Declaration

Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions

The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.

A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving.

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FUNDER mandates – via SHERPA-JULIET

Ideal support for Open Access would mandate Open Access dissemination of the final research outputs as a condition of grant without any embargo period

JULIET (via SHERPA) assigns an Open Access tick when each condition is met:

Whether to archive: Deposit required

What to archive: Author’s final version of published PDF version required

When to archive: When accepted for publication

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SHERPA RIOJA

at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/rioja/

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Conclusions?

European research-led universities have an agenda: to investigate if they can embrace a role as disseminators,

aggregators and publishers to look at repositories and open access as tools which can help

them achieve these ends to add value to the dissemination process

particularly in terms of institutionally-produced content to identify whether their efforts are sustainable in the long-term

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And finally…

Photograph of original colour scheme for Flaxman Gallery, UCL

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