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Open Access in the UK

Open Access in the UK. Neil Jacobs, JISC, UK. The current situation: a benchmarking exercise. International meeting on Institutional Repositories (IRs) last week in Amsterdam Questionnaires on IRs and OA completed from:

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Open Access in the UK

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  1. Open Access in the UK Neil Jacobs, JISC, UK

  2. The current situation: a benchmarking exercise • International meeting on Institutional Repositories (IRs) last week in Amsterdam • Questionnaires on IRs and OA completed from: • Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK, USA. • Results to appear in D-Lib article

  3. Some UK statistics • 31 ‘eprint’ IRs in the UK (Southampton registry) • 144 universities in UK • Average number of “items” in an IR = 240 • Of these items…

  4. OA items in the UK 1 • 74% articles, working papers, technical reports, etc. • 57% published articles, book chapters, conference proceedings • 16% books, theses • 1% datasets • 4% video, music, etc. • 5% other --------- 100%

  5. OA items in the UK 2 • 16% Humanities and Social Sciences • 12% Life Sciences • 25% Natural Sciences • 41% Engineering / Computer Science • 6% Other --------- 100%

  6. OA items in the UK 3 Proportion of total UK research output: • 2% Humanities and Social Sciences • 1% Life Sciences • 5% Natural Sciences • 15% Engineering / Computer Science (perhaps the least reliable of the figures!)

  7. Software used • 24 Eprints • 6 DSpace • 2 locally developed (excluding CCLRC) • + much interest in Fedora

  8. UK National Policy • No national policy, but debate: • Select committee: recommended OA • UK Government: “A level playing field” • and statements: • Scotland: Scottish Declaration on Open Access

  9. National situation • Scottish Declaration signed by all Scottish universities + SLIC • However, most of the support to set up institutional repositories in the UK has come via JISC: • SHERPA Project - 20 repositories in top research universities • Many other universities and colleges implementing institutional repositories • JISC “Digital Repositories Programme” – exploring issues, frameworks and pilot services

  10. Funders • Research Councils (RCUK): statement being drafted • likely to have a major impact (major advocacy push planned by Sherpa, SPARC, JISC…) • Promote discussion and action at senior level within institutions • Wellcome Trust policy • already having a major impact, stimulating debate and raising awareness • UK-PubMed initiative

  11. Institutions • University of Southampton • Open Access policy • Core funding of institutional repository • “Institutional Repository will now become an integral part of the electronic library service at Southampton” • Link to RAE (…) • Result: Southampton repository holds as many items as the rest of the UK put together.

  12. Research Assessment • Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) • every few years …1996, 2001, 2008 • Major research funding follows RAE • Method: • Institutions submit data on: • four research publications per researcher • other contextual information on research • Panels review data (including the impact of publications)

  13. RAE and institutional repositories • Institutional repository can: • Boost impact (citation counts) of open access research publications • Act as a management tool to ensure institutional RAE submission is efficient • JISC funding technical work linking DSpace and Eprints software with RAE systems.

  14. Neil JacobsJISC Executiveneil.jacobs@bristol.ac.uk

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