On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:44 PM, CHARLES OPPENHEIM <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.oppenheim@btinternet.com" target="_blank">c.oppenheim@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span>This is a significant and important set of findings, which should be forwarded on to decision-makers, both in Universities and in funding agencies.</span></div>
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<span>More like this, please Stevan</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Professor Charles Oppenheim</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>More on the way. </div><div><br></div><div>But meanwhile, OA advocates, <i>please do forward these findings on mandate strength to decision-makers at your university and funding agencies</i>. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It's now more important than ever to make sure that OA policy decisions are evidence-based, especially to counter the extensive negative effects of the publishing lobby, as most dramatically exerted very recently on the <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342580/1/harnad-cilip.pdf">Finch Report and the resulting RCUK policy</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Stevan Harnad</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> <div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Stevan Harnad <<a href="mailto:amsciforum@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">amsciforum@GMAIL.COM</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:JISC-REPOSITORIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK" target="_blank">JISC-REPOSITORIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 26 October 2012, 18:59<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> OA Week: Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA Mandate Effectiveness<br> </font> </div> <br><div><div>
In June 2012, the UK Finch Committee made the following statement:</div><div>
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<div style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em;min-height:1em"><i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">"The [Green OA] policies of neither research funders nor universities themselves have yet had a major effect in ensuring that researchers make their publications accessible in institutional repositories…"</i> <b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">[<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-Group-report-FINAL-VERSION.pdf" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-style:none;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(228,105,3);font-weight:normal" target="_blank">Finch Committee Recommendation, June 2012</a>]</b><b style="background-color:transparent;font-size:1em;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </b></div>
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<b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">Testing the Finch Hypothesis</b></div><div>
We have now tested the Finch Hypothesis. Using data from ROARMAP institutional Green OA mandates and data from ROAR on institutional repositories, we found that deposit number and rate is significantly correlated with mandate strength (classified as 1-12): The stronger the mandate, the more the deposits. The strongest mandates generate deposit rates of 70%+ within 2 years of adoption, compared to the un-mandated deposit rate of 20%. The effect is already detectable at the national level, where the UK, which has the largest proportion of Green OA mandates, has a national OA rate of 35%, compared to the global baseline of 25%.</div>
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<b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">Conclusion</b><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em"><br style="font-size:1em">
</b>The conclusion is that, contrary to the Finch Hypothesis, Green Open Access Mandates <i style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">do</i> have a major effect, and the stronger the mandate, the stronger the effect (the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/56/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-style:none;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(228,105,3)" target="_blank">Liege ID/OA mandate</a>, linked to research performance evaluation, being the strongest mandate model). <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/documents/RCUK%20_Policy_on_Access_to_Research_Outputs.pdf" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-style:none;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(228,105,3)" target="_blank">RCUK</a> (as well as all universities, research institutions and research funders worldwide) would be well advised to adopt the strongest Green OA mandates and to integrate institutional and funder mandates.</div>
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The findings are in the link below. <i>Discussion invited!</i></div><div>
<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">Gargouri, Yassine</span>, <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">Lariviere, Vincent</span>, <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">Gingras, Yves</span>, <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">Brody, Tim</span>, <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">Carr, Les</span> and <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">Harnad, Stevan</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em"> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">(2012)</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em"> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/344687/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-style:none;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(228,105,3)" target="_blank">Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA Mandate Effectiveness</a></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em">.</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em"> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:1em"><i>Open Access Week 2012</i></span></div>
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