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WHAT HELPS AND WHAT HINDERS SCIENCE IN AN OPEN ACCESS ENVIRONMENT?

Second European Conference on Science Publishing Oslo, 4 -6 September 2008 . Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK. WHAT HELPS AND WHAT HINDERS SCIENCE IN AN OPEN ACCESS ENVIRONMENT?. What gets us to an Open Access environment?. Awareness and understanding Policies (mandatory ones)

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WHAT HELPS AND WHAT HINDERS SCIENCE IN AN OPEN ACCESS ENVIRONMENT?

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  1. Second European Conference on Science Publishing Oslo, 4-6 September 2008 Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK WHAT HELPS AND WHAT HINDERS SCIENCE IN AN OPEN ACCESS ENVIRONMENT?

  2. What gets us to an Open Access environment? • Awareness and understanding • Policies (mandatory ones) • Evidence and experience Key Perspectives Ltd

  3. Awareness and understanding • Familiar with OA • Self-archiving behaviour Key Perspectives Ltd

  4. Awareness of OA Key Perspectives Ltd

  5. Self-archiving behaviour Key Perspectives Ltd

  6. Policies and mandates • Policies raise awareness but don’t change behaviour • Mandates raise awareness and change behaviour • Mandates make sense for the mandating body Key Perspectives Ltd

  7. Evidence and experience • Increased visibility: • Google and Google Scholar • Testimonial evidence • More impact: • Increased downloads • Increased citations Key Perspectives Ltd

  8. One testimonial • “Self-archiving …. has given instant world-wide visibility to my work. As a result, I was invited to submit papers to refereed international conferences/journals and got them accepted.” Key Perspectives Ltd

  9. Increased citation impact Data: StevanHarnad and co-workers Key Perspectives Ltd

  10. What hinders and what helps science in an OA world? Hinders Helps Embargoes Immediate deposit / later access Narrow schema for recognition and reward New metrics and mechanisms for recognition and reward Misinformation (e.g. about peer review) Relentless outing of the misinformers Disjointed OA scene Joined-up OA environment PDF XML Age Youth Key Perspectives Ltd

  11. Thank you for listening aswan@keyperspectives.co.uk www.keyperspectives.co.uk www.keyperspectives.com Key Perspectives Ltd

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