Transcript LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access

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Opening up research
content in the NHS
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)
e-mail: [email protected]
SHALL Plus - 20 September 2012
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Contents
1. Open Access – the essentials
2. The Finch Report
 Its significance for Higher Education
3. The Finch Report
 The problem for the NHS
 Journal licensing
 Open Access
4. Conclusions?
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Contents
1. Open Access – the essentials
2. The Finch Report
 Its significance for Higher Education
3. The Finch Report
 The problem for the NHS
 Journal licensing
 Open Access
4. Conclusions?
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LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access
 A revolution in the way research material is disseminated across the
globe
 For an introduction and overview, see:
 http://www.leru.org/files/publications/LERU_AP8_Open_Access.pdf
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Open Access – the essential definitions
 Open Knowledge is ‘any kind of information – sonnets to
statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed’ (Open Knowledge Foundation definition)
 Green route has been defined as the route where copies
of peer-reviewed research outputs are made freely
available on the web, using an Open Access repository,
alongside any formal published versions
 Gold route has been defined as journal publishing
operating with a business model not based on
subscription, but rather on either publication charges
(where the author or an organization on behalf of the
author funds the publishing costs) or on subsidy
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Contents
1. Open Access – the essentials
2. The Finch Report
 Its significance in Higher Education
3. The Finch Report
 The problem for the NHS
 Journal licensing
 Open Access
4. Conclusions?
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Finch Recommendations
 See http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/
 Report to Department of Business, Innovation and Skills
 UCL responses
 See http://poynder.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/finch-report-in-globalopen-access.html and
http://poynder.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/finch-report-ucls-davidprice-responds.html
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Finch Recommendations
 Gold Open Access is the future
 UK produces 6% of world’s global research output
 For an extra £38 million to UK HE, UK research outputs
could be published as Gold OA research outputs
 Green OA would be for grey literature, theses
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Finch Recommendations
 National licensing solutions could extend access to the
National Health Service, SMEs (Small + Medium sized
Enterprises)
 £6 million - £12 million extra a year for equality of access across
HE
 £1 million - £2 million a year for access by the NHS
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Finch Recommendations
For an individual
institutional policy, as
things stand, Green is
the only affordable and
practical option
JISC Report by John
Houghton and Alma
Swan - Going for Gold?
– see http://ierepository.jisc.ac.uk/610
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Debate in the UK
 Debate in the UK is polarised between the benefits of
Green or Gold
 2 solutions not mutually exclusive
 Finch talks about a Gold OA future, not set in a timeframe
 Also relies on the whole world going Gold OA
 Houghton and Swan look at transition issues and the
position NOW
 World will not go Gold OA overnight
 For the short to medium term, Green route is more cost effective
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UK Government funding
7 September 2012
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Contents
1. Open Access – the essentials
2. The Finch Report
 Its significance in Higher Education
3. The Finch Report
 The problem for the NHS
 Journal licensing
 Open Access
4. Conclusions
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Access for NHS constituents to Wellcomefunded research content
NHS level of access
2005 (% of content)
2012 (% of content)
No embargo
6.6
6.7
6-12 month embargo
6.7
2-24 month embargo
% with no direct access
27.7
86.7%
65.6%
88.2
96.4
not surveyed
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11.8%
2.8%
HE level of access *
No embargo
3-12 month embargo
% with no direct access
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GMC National Training results (2012)
 UK-wide, only 55.11% of medical trainees considered the
provision of online journals to be good or very good
 Proportion who thought provision very good was only
12.45%
 See http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/surveys.asp
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Finch Recommendations
 National licensing solutions could extend access to the
National Health Service, SMEs (Small + Medium sized
Enterprises)
 £6 million - £12 million extra a year for equality of access across
HE
 £1 million - £2 million a year for access by the NHS
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Journal licensing
 Approach being made to NHS to find funding Finch
identified via NHS research budgets
 Discussion being led for NHS by UCL Partners
 Possible sources of funding:
 Health Education England (HEE)
 Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs)
 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs)
 JISC Collections can advise on procurement top-up
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Open Access
 Studies like Finch and Houghton/Swan suggest that the
future for research dissemination is increasingly via Open
Access
 LERU Roadmap shows that all 21 LERU universities have
Green repositories
 What is the NHS position on Open Access?
 If NHS research is funded by public investment, it should
be freely available
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Access for NHS constituents to Wellcomefunded research content
 2012 represents an opportunity
 Challenge
 NHS in London could work with UK HE to establish a Green Open
Access repository/repositories for NHS research
 Benefits
 NHS research would be more easily available
 NHS researchers would gain more visibility by being downloaded
more often
 Open Access support evidence-based health-care agenda
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And finally…
 Thank you for listening
 If you have been…
 Happy to (try and) answer any
questions
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