Open Access and
Current Developments
School of Law
16th May 2012
Bill Hubbard
Head of Centre for Research Communications
Open Access
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What is Open Access?
Open Access Publishing
Open Access Repositories
Institutional repositories
Concerns about Open Access
National developments
Support in the University
Questions
Open Access
• Open Access - definitions
– Open Access Journals
– Open Access Repositories
– Open Access . . . and open access . . . .
• Two routes using open access, but to slightly
different destinations
Publishing - changes and new approaches
• Open Access Publishing
– Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ
• 7,731 journals in the directory
• Currently 3,764 searchable journals
• 801,501 articles accessible
• All major publishers involved
• Hybrid journals
– double dipping?
• Overlay journals - & decoupled publishing services
Rise of repositories
• Open Access Repositories
• Directory of Open Access Repositories OpenDOAR
– www.opendoar.org
– currently 2,170 open access repositories
– started registration in 2006 . . .
Repositories around the world
Capitalising on repositories
• Open Access
– Greater availability and wider readership
– Increased citations
– New contacts and research possibilities
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Information management
REF and evaluation
As resource for academic services
Support for new forms and systems of research
communication and collaboration
Institutional repositories
• Institutional or subject-based
– difference largely irrelevant
– OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and access
across repositories
– subject-based portals or views
• Practical reasons for institutional approach
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use institutional infrastructure - storage and sustainability
integration into work-flows and systems
support is close to academic users and contributors
support departmental websites
Current deposits in Law
bartlett "sex dementia capacity“
137 Results to this paper
No 1 - Nottingham ePrints
From school web page?
Does not appear . . .
bartlett "Mental health law in the community: thinking about Africa“
62 Results to this paper
No 1 - Nottingham ePrints
From school web page?
Does not appear . . .
bartlett "'The necessity must be convincingly shown to exist': standards for “
50 Results to this paper
No 2 - Nottingham ePrints
From school web page?
Does not appear . . .
Repositories in Russell &1994 Groups
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University of Bath
Birkbeck
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge
Cardiff University
University of Durham
University of East Anglia
University of Edinburgh
University of Essex
University of Exeter
University of Glasgow
Goldsmiths
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Imperial College
King's College London
Lancaster University
University of Leeds
University of Leicester
University of Liverpool
Loughborough University
LSE
University of Manchester
University of Newcastle
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
Queen Mary
and 22/23 University Alliance: 20/26 MillionPlus universities
• effective coverage of the UK HE research base . . .
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Queen’s University
University of Reading
Royal Holloway
University of St Andrews
University of Sheffield
SOAS
University of Southampton
University of Surrey
University of Sussex
University of Warwick
UCL
University of York
Comparing use of institutional repository
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LSE - 2,115
UCL - 2,170
Oxford - 68 (more in separate repositories)
Nottingham - 8
Durham - 562
Cambridge - 24 (more in separate repositories)
Cardiff - 434
Kent - 1,110
QUB - (restructuring repository)
Common concerns and issues
• Does more access=more plagiarism?
• No. It makes it easier to detect
• Does OA affect peer-review?
• No. OA does not touch the peer-review process
• Copyright
• In most cases, not a restriction
Academic Spring
HE Sector Developments
• David Willetts: “The Coalition is committed to the
principle of public access to publicly-funded research
results. “
• Finch Committee
• Houghton Report
• Funding mandates
• Price rises in journals many times rate of inflation
• Publishers stifling new forms of research use
• “Academic Spring”
• Institutional policies
Open Access Policy - excerpts
• Applies to all members of staff
• All research papers . . . where copyright allows,
should be deposited in the Nottingham
ePrints repository upon publication or as soon as
possible thereafter.
• Where available, researchers should . . . publish
their work in an open access form offered by journal
publishers, and can make use of research grants
and/or the central Open Access publication fund, in
order to pay open access publication fees.
Open Access Support in Nottingham
Using the Institutional Repository
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/
Using the Central Fund
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Fund set up in November 2006
Open to all members of staff
Administered by Research Graduate Services
Contact jacqueline.anderson@nottingham.ac.uk
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The title of your article, publisher and Journal
The funder of the research
Relevant grant number, start/end date of the grant
PI names to which the publication relates
Proof of publication costs (copy invoice, email)
Claimants
• Claimants
predominantly from
Medical and Life
Sciences areas
• Data current at end of
09/10 academic session
Questions?
• Bill Hubbard
• Head of Centre for Research Communications
• bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk