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Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK. Overview. The scene in the first decade of the new millennium. Technologies racing along (ahead / away) EU targets and goals: i2010 vision (Single Information Space) Mobility of research professionals Lisbon Agenda Knowledge Triangle
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Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK Overview
The scene in the first decade of the new millennium • Technologies racing along (ahead / away) • EU targets and goals: • i2010 vision (Single Information Space) • Mobility of research professionals • Lisbon Agenda • Knowledge Triangle • Competition for students, staff, rankings… Key LtdPerspectives
This meeting • The Web • Open Access • Research policy and management • Berlin Declaration, EU petition…. Key LtdPerspectives
The Web • Not reached full potential • Research institution websites • Dissemination tool • Enables measurement tools (that bring new capabilities to research management and policymaking) Key LtdPerspectives
The USouthampton conundrum… The G-Factor rankings (universitymetrics.com) Key Perspectives Ltd
Why is Southampton so strong? • Strong research base • TBL et al • Mandatory deposit of research output in ECS repository for 4 years (c11K items) • University repository actively managed and now to have mandatory deposit • All = very strong web presence Key Perspectives Ltd
Search / retrieve Other value adding Aggregate / display Editorial Count / assess Peer review REPOSITORIESand OA journal content Ingest layer services Key LtdPerspectives
Repositories in Europe Key LtdPerspectives
Your repository • Collects institution’s outputs in one place • Shop window / showcase for the institution • Disseminates the institution’s outputs • Provides the locus for measurement and assessment of the institution’s efforts Key LtdPerspectives
[Repositories] “are vital to universities’ economies and to the UK economy as a whole.” Professor J Drummond Bone President of Universities UK Key Perspectives Ltd
Economic impact of Open Access “With the United Kingdom's GERD [Gross Expenditure on Research and Development] at USD 33.7 billion and assuming social returns to R&D of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency [their conservative estimate] would have been worth USD 1.7 billion; and… Houghton et al, 2006 Key Perspectives Ltd
For funders: The economic arguments … “Governments would boost innovation and get a better return on their investment in publicly funded research by making research findings more widely available …. and by doing so they would maximise social returns on public investments.” OECD Report on Scientific Publishing, 2005 Key Perspectives Ltd
EU’s “Innovation Reports” • The R&D Triangle: research, education, innovation • SMEs find it hard to get access to the basic research information they need to innovate Key Perspectives Ltd
Your repository • Increases your research visibility: • University of Otago Business School: • Launched November 2005 • February 2006: 20,000 downloads • 220 articles • Increases your research impact Key Perspectives Ltd
Open Access increases citations Range = 36%-200% (Data: Stevan Harnad and co-workers) Key Perspectives Ltd
Your repository • Increases your research visibility: • University of Otago Business School: • Launched November 2005 • February 2006: 20,000 downloads • 220 articles • Increases your research impact • Enables you to collect, track and monitor your outputs Key Perspectives Ltd
Today’s programme • The infrastructure needed • The things that can already be measured • The policies that need to be in place • The ways forward Key Perspectives Ltd
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