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A joint JISC/NSF project

A joint JISC/NSF project. Contents. Self-archiving What’s important? Self-archiving Budapest Open Access Initiative When the (refereed) Literature is Freed Academic CVs Improved Searching Analysis Summary. What’s important?. Access most critical to users

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A joint JISC/NSF project

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  1. A joint JISC/NSF project Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  2. Contents • Self-archiving • What’s important? • Self-archiving • Budapest Open Access Initiative • When the (refereed) Literature is Freed • Academic CVs • Improved Searching • Analysis • Summary Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  3. What’s important? • Access most critical to users • Impact most critical to authors • Quality important to research • Anything else is optional Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  4. Self-archiving in one Sentence All the Refereed, Published Literature, Freely Accessible Online, for Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  5. Why self-archiving? • Emphasises access (and hence impact) • Rapid dissemination • “Articles freely available online are more highly cited” – Lawrence Nature (2001) • Level playing field: between institutions, countries, developed vs developing Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  6. Budapest Open Access Initiative supports self-archiving • Launched February 14th 2002 • Promoting free access to research literature through self-archiving and alternative publishing models • In one week over 1,000 individuals and close to 100 organizations have signed including Library of Congress, the Association of Research Libraries, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the Australian Vice Chancellors Committee and a growing number of individual universities. • Backed by the Soros Open Society Institute Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  7. When the (refereed) Literature is Freed • Online Academic CVs linked to full-texts in institutional Eprint Archives • Universal searching • New impact indicators (search ranking) • New digitometric analyses • Continuous research assessment (RAE) Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  8. Online Academic CVs • Institutional record of a researcher’s output • Provide a personal bibliography with an EPrints.org extract • Make research assessment simpler • (an obvious advantage to encourage authors to self-archive!) Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  9. Cross-Publisher Searching • Questions: • Can I search the refereed literature with Google? • If I use an abstract service how do I get the full-text? • If I search an electronic journal, do I have to repeat my search for every electronic journal? • Answer: • EPrints.org archives of refereed literature expose articles to Google indexing, or via OAI to metadata harvesters/search engines (e.g. arXiv.org in Scirus) Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  10. citebaseSearch(shameless plug for self) • Part of the Open Citation Project • “Google for the refereed literature” (currently arXiv.org …) • Harvests Metadata using OAI-PMH • Provides impact (and other)-ranked search based on reference data extracted from arXiv.org • Re-exports Metadata+References Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  11. Impact Indicators (citebaseSearch) Currently 6 possible ranking criteria (will be extended to include by Journal Impact, plus other innovations) Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  12. Impact Indicators (citebaseSearch) Ranking by how many times articles are co-cited with “oai:arXiv:hep-th/9905111” Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  13. Analysis of Research(OpCit Research 2000 – arXiv.org articles) Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  14. Analysis of Research(OpCit Research 2000 – arXiv.org articles) Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  15. Analysis of Research(OpCit Research 2000 – arXiv.org articles) Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  16. Research Assessment • (the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) assesses institutional research impact nationally and internationally, which is then partially used to determine research funding) • EPrints.org institutional archives provide a record of research output • Federating tools can be used to assess the impact of that research • New indicators with greater coverage: hits, assessing quality of collaborations, … • "Why I think research access, impact and assessment are linked." • http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/thes1.html Harnad THES (2001) Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  17. Summary • Access is essential to the user and to impact • Impact is essential to the author and to research • Quality comes from peer-review • Self-archiving is one way to achieve universal access to the peer-reviewed literature (and is possible now with EPrints.org software) • Anything else can be built on the freed, online refereed literature: • CVs, Searching, gateways, analysis, … Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

  18. Resources • Slides: http://opcit.eprints.org/talks/glasgow/timspicture.ppt • Tim Brody (University of Southampton) • tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk • CiteBase Search • http://citebase.eprints.org/ • Open Citation Project • http://opcit.eprints.org/ • OpCit Papers & Research • http://opcit.eprints.org/opcitpapers.shtml • Self-archiving FAQ (Stevan Harnad) • http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ • Budapest Open Access Initiative • http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ • Free Online Scholarship (Peter Suber) • http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm • Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH, federating services, etc.) • http://www.openarchives.org/ Tim Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

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