A joint JISC/NSF project

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A joint JISC/NSF project
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Contents

• Self-archiving
• Whats important?
• Self-archiving
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• When the (refereed) Literature is Freed
• Academic CVs
• Improved Searching
• Analysis
• Summary

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Whats important?

• Access most critical to users
• Impact most critical to authors
• Quality important to research
• Anything else is optional

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Self-archiving in one Sentence

• All the Refereed,
• Published Literature,
• Freely Accessible Online,
• for Anyone,
• Anytime,
• Anywhere

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Why self-archiving?

• Emphasises access (and hence impact)
• Rapid dissemination
• Articles freely available online are more highly
  cited Lawrence Nature (2001)
• Level playing field between institutions,
  countries, developed vs developing

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Budapest Open Access Initiative supports
self-archiving

• Launched February 14th 2002
• Promoting free access to research literature
  through self-archiving and alternative publishing
  models
• In one week over 1,000 individuals and close to
  100 organizations have signed including Library
  of Congress, the Association of Research
  Libraries, the Canadian Association of Research
  Libraries, the Australian Vice Chancellors
  Committee and a growing number of individual
  universities.
• Backed by the Soros Open Society Institute

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When the (refereed) Literature is Freed

• Online Academic CVs linked to full-texts in
  institutional Eprint Archives
• Universal searching
• New impact indicators (search ranking)
• New digitometric analyses
• Continuous research assessment (RAE)

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Online Academic CVs

• Institutional record of a researchers output
• Provide a personal bibliography with an
  EPrints.org extract
• Make research assessment simpler
• (an obvious advantage to encourage authors to
  self-archive!)

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Cross-Publisher Searching

• Questions
• Can I search the refereed literature with Google?
• If I use an abstract service how do I get the
  full-text?
• If I search an electronic journal, do I have to
  repeat my search for every electronic journal?
• Answer
• EPrints.org archives of refereed literature
  expose articles to Google indexing, or via OAI to
  metadata harvesters/search engines (e.g.
  arXiv.org in Scirus)

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citebaseSearch(shameless plug for self)

• Part of the Open Citation Project
• Google for the refereed literature (currently
  arXiv.org )
• Harvests Metadata using OAI-PMH
• Provides impact (and other)-ranked search based
  on reference data extracted from arXiv.org
• Re-exports MetadataReferences

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Impact Indicators (citebaseSearch)
Currently 6 possible ranking criteria (will be
extended to include by Journal Impact, plus other
innovations)
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Impact Indicators (citebaseSearch)
Ranking by how many times articles are co-cited
with oaiarXivhep-th/9905111
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Analysis of Research(OpCit Research 2000
arXiv.org articles)
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Analysis of Research(OpCit Research 2000
arXiv.org articles)
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Analysis of Research(OpCit Research 2000
arXiv.org articles)
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Research Assessment

• (the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
  assesses institutional research impact nationally
  and internationally, which is then partially used
  to determine research funding)
• EPrints.org institutional archives provide a
  record of research output
• Federating tools can be used to assess the impact
  of that research
• New indicators with greater coverage hits,
  assessing quality of collaborations,
• "Why I think research access, impact and
  assessment are linked."
• http//www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Tp/thes1.htm
  l Harnad THES (2001)

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Summary

• Access is essential to the user and to impact
• Impact is essential to the author and to research
• Quality comes from peer-review
• Self-archiving is one way to achieve universal
  access to the peer-reviewed literature (and is
  possible now with EPrints.org software)
• Anything else can be built on the freed, online
  refereed literature
• CVs, Searching, gateways, analysis,

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Resources

• Slides http//opcit.eprints.org/talks/glasgow/tim
  spicture.ppt
• Tim Brody (University of Southampton)
• tdb01r_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk
• CiteBase Search
• http//citebase.eprints.org/
• Open Citation Project
• http//opcit.eprints.org/
• OpCit Papers Research
• http//opcit.eprints.org/opcitpapers.shtml
• Self-archiving FAQ (Stevan Harnad)
• http//www.eprints.org/self-faq/
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• http//www.soros.org/openaccess/
• Free Online Scholarship (Peter Suber)
• http//www.earlham.edu/peters/fos/index.htm
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH, federating
  services, etc.)
• http//www.openarchives.org/