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WHY AND HOW JISC IS SUPPORTING OPEN ACCESS

WHY AND HOW JISC IS SUPPORTING OPEN ACCESS. Frederick J. Friend JISC Consultant OSI Open Access Advocate Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL f.friend@ucl.ac.uk. WHY JISC IS SUPPORTING OPEN ACCESS. One route to improvement in access through negotiation of “big deals”

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WHY AND HOW JISC IS SUPPORTING OPEN ACCESS

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  1. WHY AND HOW JISC IS SUPPORTING OPEN ACCESS Frederick J. Friend JISC Consultant OSI Open Access Advocate Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL f.friend@ucl.ac.uk

  2. WHY JISC IS SUPPORTING OPEN ACCESS • One route to improvement in access through negotiation of “big deals” • This route partially effective but many difficulties – e.g. long negotiations, small publishers not included, cost too high • Push for open access coming both because of problems with “big deals” and because of developments in research communication and institutional information strategies • Open access not just a new business model but part of a new way of meeting research and teaching needs, treating dissemination as integral to research • For research funding agencies, greater use and exploitation of research results resulting from a higher number of readers, facilitating further research. • For the author, increased readership and more citations, as academic content on open web-sites is read more widely than content on closed web-sites. • For universities and colleges, more publicity for the research conducted at the institution and higher citation of research papers. • For readers of research papers, access to research publications without barriers imposed by subscription or access-prevention technology. • For the UK Government, greater returns from investment in the funding of research as research publications are used more widely. This can contribute to the public’s understanding of science.

  3. HOW JISC IS SUPPORTING OPEN ACCESS • Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR) Programme www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_fair.html - fourteen projects August 2002 – October 2005 • New Digital Repositories Programme just starting http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_digital_repositories (N.B. all types of academic content and repositories) • National deal for any UK author to submit to BioMed Central open access journals - very successful (many submissions, fair rejection rate and good publicity) in first year so extended for a second year • March 2004-February 2005 four publishers funded to cover OA publication-charges, each with different business model • Aim to ease the transition from subscription to open access for publishers willing to trial OA • In second round of funding five grants made to publishers and more publishers will be invited to bid for 2006-07 • Various surveys and studies funded in order to understand the complex environment better and to assist the process of change

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