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Institutional repositories: Author behaviour
Alma Swan
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Truro, UK
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Why researchers publish their work
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Communicateresults to peers
Advance career Personalprestige
Gain funding Financial reward
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Publishing in OA journals
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OA publishing intentions
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LikelyNeutral
Somewhat unlikelyWill n
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Don't know
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Self-archiving
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Preprinton webpage
Postprinton webpage
Preprint inIR
Postprintin IR
Preprint insubjectarchive
Postprintin subjectarchive
Relationship between self-archiving activity and publishing activity
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Postprint on web page Postprint in IR Postprint in subject archive
0 or 1papers peryear
2 or 3papers peryear
4 or 5papers peryear
>5 papersper year
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Length of self-archiving experience
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>5 years 3-5 years 2-3 years Last year only
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How did they learn about self-archiving?
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From peers FollowedOA debate
Institutionor library
Field hassubject-basedarchive
Dept orschool
Co-authors
Author readiness to comply with a mandate
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Would complywillingly
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14%5%
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Mandates in place
QUT CERN School of ECS, Southampton
University University of Minho University of Zurich Compliance as expected
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University of Tasmania
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Actualdocuments
DESTpublications
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University of Queensland
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Queensland University of Technology
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Obeying embargoes? Nature Physics Issue 1: 8 primary research papers 7 available on the web on the day of publication
(1 not available except in jrnl) 4 had postprints in arXiv 2 had preprints in arXiv 2 had Nature’s own PDF on author websites Citations: postprints -1,5,0,3 preprints 3,0 (physics research/pub cycle is moving very fast)
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So much for research articles
Something else is happening here
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An institutional repository provides researchers with:
Secure storage (for completed work and for work-in-progress)
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An author said…
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“This is a very handy way to keep all of one’s work together and findable, which helps me as much as anyone else.”
An institutional repository provides researchers with:
Secure storage (for completed work and for work-in-progress)
A location for supporting data that are unpublished
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Mandates on data sharing National Institutes of Health NASA NSF OECD UK Research Councils Wellcome Trust Nature ICMJE ….
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An institutional repository provides researchers with:
Secure storage (for completed work and for work-in-progress)
A location for supporting data that are unpublished …
… and other things
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Conference paper
Preprint
Technical report
Working paper
Book chapter
Dissertation or thesis
Courseware
Discussion paper
Software
Monograph
Manual
Video file
Audio file
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An institutional repository provides researchers with:
Secure storage (for completed work and for work-in-progress)
A location for supporting data that are unpublished
One-input-many outputs (CVs, publications)
e-science (e-research) domains
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e-Science (and e-research)
‘The large scale science that will increasingly be carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet.’
RCUK’s e-Science Programme
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‘Atkins’ report
‘The primary access to the latest findings in a growing number of fields is through the Web, then through classic preprints and conferences, and lastly through refereed archival papers’.
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Crystallography
30m known compounds; 5m XRC-able 2.5m investigated but only 350K curated by
the World Data Centre NCC can solve 10-15 crystals per day, but a
‘traditional’ paper has 2 datasets in it and takes 3 days to write
IUCr backing IRs as a way of publishing crystallographic data
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IUCr
Helping to roll out the NCC’s archive to other universities (ICL, Cam, N-u-T by Xmas)
Harvesting across these to collate and validate
Building own repository for those without Registering datasets with DOI agencies Linking data to other relevant datasets
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Citation and impact studies Lawrence 2001 (computer science) Kurtz 2004 (astronomy) Brody & Harnad 2004 (all disciplines) Antelman 2005 (philosophy, politics, electrical
& electronic engineering, mathematics) Wren 2005 (biomedicine) Opcit project
(http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html)
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New scientometric measures
ISI ‘times cited’ Measures of correlation of
downloads and citations New measures of impact and
new ways of measuring linkages and trends in the research literature
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Thank you for listening
aswan@keyperspectives.co.uk
www.keyperspectives.co.uk
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