Transcript TARDis Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and Disclosure

Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and
Disclosure
Presentation to
Prof Adam Wheeler, DVC
18 Sep 2003
Pauline Simpson & Jessie Hey
Presentation road map
• Scholarly communication - set the scene
• Open Access Journals
• Open Archives Initiative
– TARDis project
– e-Prints Soton
Scholarly Communication –
present model
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Bibliometrics – citation analysis, impact factors
Evaluation – RAE, Tenure, Promotion
Research funding proposals
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‘Crisis in Scholarly Communication’
new alternate models
• Open Access Journals
• Open Archive
Initiative
Open?
• ‘Open’ = freely accessible - ‘open
access journals’
and/or
• ‘Open’ = interoperable - Open
Archives Initiative (OAI)
Open Access Journals
• the worldwide movement to disseminate scientific and
scholarly research literature online, free of charge and
free of unnecessary licensing restrictions.
– Open access is barrier-free and cost-free access to the
use of information
– Open access is NOT cost-free publication - costs still have
to be met but in a new way
– Open access is NOT low-quality publication
– Open access is NOT vanity publication
– Open access is a new way of managing scholarly
publishing with a new economic model
Changing the economic model
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Essential feature : payment is for publication not for
access
Peer-review still in place to ensure quality
Publication payment can come either from author or
from research funding agency (many authors already
pay more in page charges or colour charges than open
access is likely to cost)
Open access favours small society publishers (publication
costs likely to be lower)
Enables commercial publishers to continue albeit with lower
profit levels
BUT transition to new model difficult for publishers
Examples of Open Access Journals and Publishers
•Documenta Mathematica
http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/documenta/Welcome-eng.html
This journal is free of charge (electronic). Printed volumes are
available for a low price.
•Geometry & Topology http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/
Publication is in electronic format completely free to individuals with
papers appearing a few days after acceptance. Low-priced paper
copy is available.
•Public Library of Science and BioMed Central
Public Library of Science
• non-profit organization of scientists and
physicians committed to making the
world's scientific and medical literature a
freely available public resource.
• PLoS Biology out Oct 2003
• PLoS Medicine 2004
BioMed Central
• 90+ open access journals
– business model is to charge authors $500 per article and
then make the content available free to readers
• JISC agreement with BioMed Central 1/7/03
– Up to 80,000 medical and clinical researchers at 180
universities will now be able to publish their work at no
charge in any of BioMed Central's extensive range of
online medical journals. The costs of peer review will
continue to be borne by individual academics or their
institutions. The JISC deal will benefit authors from
UK Higher Education Institutions, who will no
longer have to pay their own author charges.
• Work published with BioMed Central by researchers at
University of Southampton
Research article
Biodiversity of nematode assemblages from the region of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, an area of
commercial mining interest
Lambshead PJD, Brown CJ, Ferrero TJ, Hawkins LE, Smith CR, Mitchell NJ
BMC Ecology 2003, 3:1 (9 January 2003)
[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]
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Review
Mitotic death: a mechanism of survival? A review
Erenpreisa J, Cragg MS
Cancer Cell International 2001, 1:1 (23 November 2001)
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]
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Research article
Cost-utility of enoxaparin compared with unfractionated heparin in unstable coronary artery disease
Nicholson T, McGuire A, Milne R
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2001, 1:2 (15 October 2001)
[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]
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Oral presentation
Recruiting and supporting consumers in prioritising research topics
Royle J, Oliver S
BMC Meeting Abstracts: 9th International Cochrane Colloquium 2001, 1:op014 (26 August 2001)
[Abstract]
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Oral presentation
Pathways to evidence based reproductive healthcare in developing countries
Geyoushi B, Stones W
BMC Meeting Abstracts: 9th International Cochrane Colloquium 2001, 1:op048 (26 August 2001)
[Abstract]
Directory of Open Access Journals
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Compiled by Lund University 2003
– The directory only contains fulltext, open access scientific and
scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system
to guarantee the content
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>520 journal titles (Apr 03 = 480)
– Maths 39 Statistics 4
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All peer reviewed
Increasing coverage by ISI
Agriculture and Food Sciences Arts and Architecture Biology and Life
Sciences Business and Economics Chemistry Earth and Environmental
Sciences Health SciencesHistory and Archaeology Languages and
Literatures Law and Political Science Mathematics and statistics
Philosophy and Religion Physics and Astronomy Social Sciences
Technology and Engineering
BioMed Central letter to VC
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Sent to all Vice Chancellors 13 Jun 2003
• Encourage open access publication to maximize access and
benefit to scientists, scholars and the public throughout the
world.
• Adapt tenure and promotion policies to allow credit for peer
reviewed open access publications
• Content rather than title of journal as significant
Also encouraged by :
JISC Scholarly Communications Group Briefing Paper for
RCUK (draft)
Prof David De Roure member of Group
‘Crisis in Scholarly Communication’
new alternate models
• Open Access Journals
• Open Archive
Initiative
Open Archives
• Subject based e-Print archives (centred on
author deposit)
– Pioneering example is ArXiv set up by Paul
Ginsparg at Los Alamos in 1991
– Successful in limited subject areas
– Free EPrints Software developed at Southampton
to encourage more self archiving (JISC funding)
• Open Archive Initiative software standards
developed to enable cross searching (OAI-PMH)
• Alternate models proposed based on institutional
research output
JISC FAIR programme in the UK
Focus on Access to Institutional
Resources
• Inspired by the vision of the Open Archives Initiative
(OAI) that digital resources can be shared between
organisations based on a simple mechanism allowing
metadata about these resources to be harvested into
services
• To support the disclosure of institutional assets:
To support access to and sharing of institutional
content within Higher Education and Further Education
and to allow intelligence to be gathered about the
technical, organisational and cultural challenges of
these processes…
FAIR Programme
• £3 million on 14 projects starting August
2002
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Museums and Images
E-Prints
E-theses
IPR
Institutional portals
UK Focus on Access to Institutional
Resources – e-Prints
• TARDis: Targeting Academic Resources
for Deposit and dISclosure
• SHERPA: broader - Consortium of
Research Libraries – filling archives and
joint infrastructure
• HaIRST: A testbed for Scotland
• ePrints-UK :harvesting UK e-Print
archives
TARDis
• HEFCE – JISC Programme - Focus on Access to
Institutional Resources (FAIR) £196,000
• Aug 2002 – Jan 2005 (30 months)
• Cross University collaboration:
– University Library
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School of Electronics and Computer Sciences
Information Systems and Services
Academic Community!
People
• Project Team
– Project Director : Sheila Corrall
– Project Manager: Pauline Simpson
– Advocacy : Jessie Hey
– Software : Chris Gutteridge / Tim Brody
– Admin : Natasha Lucas
• Steering Group:
– Project Team +
• Mark Brown, Peter Hancock, Les Carr
• Aim: to set up a sustainable Southampton ePrint archive
e-Prints Soton
– Enhancing our version of software
– Feeding into EPrints software – future versions
• To gain content – full text documents
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Offering a mediated service in parallel
Making easier to deposit
Advocacy
Project target – 2000
Pilot with 2 schools in progress
What are e-Prints?
e-Prints are:
• electronic copies of any research output
– journal articles, book chapters, conference papers etc
even multimedia
– they may include unpublished manuscripts and papers
prepared for publication (as copyright allows)
Also broader and narrower definitions:
Academic output - Nottingham
Peer-reviewed – Stevan Harnad
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An e-Print archive is an internet based repository of
such digital scholarly publications which can provide
immediate and free worldwide access benefiting both
author and reader
Collection policy defined to be broad
research output of University
researchers
Why deposit your research in e-Prints
Soton?
•To make your research more visible and available in
electronic form
• To promote your work and that of other academics
within your community at the University of Southampton
• To use it as a secure store for your research
publications - which can help you to respond to the
many requests for full text and publication data
• To contribute to national and global initiatives which
will ensure an international audience for your latest
research (other universities are developing their own
archives which, together, will be searchable by global
search tools)
How researchers make research
available currently though the
university web site
• Survey
– Central record of University research output not
maintained.
– Retrospective central research publications listings
collated from individual departments and made
available on the web (University Research Report)
– Snapshot
– departmental recording practices
• Minimal to highly structured
• Variety of methods
– looked at web sites – personal and schools
• Example web site
Current practices at example
Southampton departments
Department
T otal number
of publications
Full text
Percentage
of full text
Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
Archaeology
English
Modern Languages
Music
Politics
Economics
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243
160
280
138
357
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1%
1%
0%
2%
4%
25%
Faculty of Medicine, H ealth and Life Sciences
Biology
Medicine
Health Professions
and Rehabilitation
Sciences
Nursing and
Midwifery
796
1603
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247
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3%
15%
0%
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0%
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439
Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics
Chemistry
Electronics and
Computer Science
Maths Education
Mathematical
Studies
Ocean Circulation
and Climate
Group, SOES
James Rennell
Division, SOC
1128
7008
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10%
12%
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20%
37%
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3%
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9%
* - personal web sites not counted
Local needs identified / wider issues
• Bibliographic records
and full text
• Input publication data
only once
• Help with file formats
• Integrating current
records
• Import/export to
other archives
• Satisfy variety of
demands for
publication records
• Copyright (Romeo
project)
• Secure storage
• Quality control
• Peer review
• Workload
• Visibility
• Citation impact
Policy maker involvement
Benefits of an institutional repository:
• Raises profile of institution
• Manages digital institutional research assets
• Supports
– Research output measures e.g. RAE, research
report
– funding agency requirements
• Endorse, encourage new deposits
• Encourage authors to amend copyright transfer
Upcoming UK Policy level event
• JISC seminar:
• Global Access to UK Research:
Removing the barriers
• 20 November 2003
• Universities UK, Woburn House,
London
Can add additional text to copyright
• "I hereby transfer to <publisher or journal> all
rights to sell or lease the text (on-paper and
on-line) of my paper <paper title>. I retain
the right to distribute it for free for
scholarly/scientific purposes, in particular, the
right to self-archive it publicly online on the
World Wide Web. The author/s hereby assert
their moral rights in accordance with the UK
Copyright Designs and Patents Act (1988)."
How can we start to integrate with
school practice?
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Non-linear dynamics of a nematic liquid crystal in the
presence of a shear flow
E. Vicente Alonso, A.A. Wheeler and T.J. Sluckin
Proc. Roy. Soc. A. 459 , 195-220 (2003)
[reprint] also pdf, ps and hardcopy
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http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/search/listpreprints.phtml?ta
ble=applied&uid=40618960c732ac68a7b5cf574a759ecc
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http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/staff/Sluckin/papers/vicente_
alonso_et_al_03.pdf
Further Information
• e-Prints Soton Pilot
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
• TARDis
http://tardis.eprints.org/
• JISC seminar:
Global Access to UK Research: Removing
the barriers 20 November 2003
Universities UK, Woburn House, London
A national vision:
e-Prints + data + e-learning