Open Access and
Nottingham’s Repository
Computer Science Meeting
1 July 2010
Bill Hubbard
Head of Centre for Research Communications
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
– DOAJ
• 5,140 journals in the directory
• Currently 2,122 searchable journals
• 412,665 articles accessible
• Springer recently launched 12 new OA journals
• Hybrid journals
• Overlay journals - & decoupled publishing services
Rise of repositories
• Open Access Repositories
• Directory of Open Access Repositories OpenDOAR
– www.opendoar.org
– over 1696 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 largely irrelevant
– OAI-PMH allows a single gateway to search and access
across repositories
– subject-based portals or views
– subject-based classification and search
• Practical reasons for institutional approach
– use institutional infrastructure - storage and sustainability
– integration into work-flows and systems
– support is close to academic users and contributors
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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
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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
• effective coverage of the UK HE research base . . .
Common concerns and issues
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Does more access=more plagiarism?
Does OA affect peer-review?
Copyright
Cultural change
Workflows
Financial processes for OA Journal fees
Sustainability of OA journals
Sector Developments
• Houghton Report
– £110M savings, up to £170M benefits pa
• Funding mandates
• Institutional policies
Questions?
• Bill Hubbard
• Head of Centre for Research Communications
• JISC Research Communication Strategist
• bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk
Additional -
Funder’s Requirements
What do funders require?
• Open Access to research results as a condition of
funding
• Deposit in a particular repository
and/or
• Deposit in the institutional repository
and/or
• Publication in an Open Access Journal
JULIET
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JULIET introduced in 2006
Lists and analyses Funder mandates
Summarises the mandates and assists support
52 funders listed at present
– 51 publication policies
– 21 data archiving policies
– 19 open access publishing policies
Juliet Home Page
Juliet Detail 1
Juliet Detail 2