[GOAL] Re: PEER Usage Research Reports and Final Project report now available

[David Prosser]

The aims of the PEER project were clear:

The PEER project, supported by the EC eContentplus programme,  aimed to
investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors'
final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two
research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability,
as well as on the broader ecology of European research.

I am a little less clear on which of the conclusions from the project on these specific issues can be generalised from the PEER environment to the wider environment.  As we have been told, the evidence on reader access and author visibility is not to be generalised to beyond the project.  I can see no evidence of any harm to journal viability as a result of archiving, but is this again limited to journals in the PEER project?

Thanks

David




On 19 Jun 2012, at 08:52, Bayer-Schur, Barbara wrote:

> The following should be of interest. Please distribute among your own
> networks.
> Regards, Barbara Bayer-Schur
> PEER Project 
> ___________________________________________
> 
> 
> PEER - Publishing and the Ecology of European Research
> News release
> 
> 19 June 2012
> 
> PEER Usage Research Reports and Final Project report available at
> http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/   
> 
> Following the recent successful End of Project Results Conference, the
> following final reports from PEER are now available for download from the
> PEER website:
> 
> * D5.2  PEER Usage study - Descriptive statistics for the period March to
> August 2011  
> 
> * D5.3  PEER Usage study - Randomised controlled trial results 
> 
> * D9.13 Final report 
> 
> The usage research studies were undertaken by CIBER Research Ltd to measure
> the effect of exposing accepted manuscripts (following peer review) in
> repositories on downloads of the version of record at publisher platforms.
> The study is the largest of its kind to date, involving over 18,000
> manuscripts.
> 
> The PEER project, supported by the EC eContentplus programme,  aimed to
> investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors'
> final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two
> research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability,
> as well as on the broader ecology of European research.
> 
> All reports from the project including 'End of Project Statements by the PEER
> Executive Partners - Reflections on Open Access Scenarios' are available to
> download from http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/.
> 
> Presentations made during the End of Project Conference are available at:
> http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/  
> 
> For any enquiries relating to PEER, please contact Julia Wallace, Project
> Manager of PEER at wallace at stm-assoc.org   
> 
> About PEER:
> PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by the EC
> eContentplus programme, is investigating the effects of the large-scale,
> systematic depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called
> Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author
> visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology of
> European research. The project is a collaboration between publishers,
> repositories and researchers and runs from September 2008 to May 2012
> 
> For further information on PEER, visit the website:
> http://www.peerproject.eu/  
> 
> PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical
> Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen State and
> University Library, the Max Planck Society, INRIA, SURF Foundation and
> University of Bielefeld
> 
> STM publishers participating in PEER: BMJ Publishing Group; Cambridge
> University Press; EDP Sciences; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; Nature Publishing
> Group; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage Publications; Springer;
> Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell
> 
> PEER repositories: eSciDoc.PubMan.PEER, Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL),
> Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V. (MPG); HAL,
> CNRS & Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
> (Inria); Göttingen University/ Göttingen State and University Library (UGOE);
> SSOAR - Social Sciences Open Access repository (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for
> the Social Sciences); TARA - Trinity College Dublin (TCD); University Library
> of Debrecen (ULD) 
> Long term preservation archive: e-depot, Koninklijke Bibliotheek
> 
> ________________________________
> Dr. Barbara Bayer-Schur
> DH Forschungsverbund Niedersachsen
> Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities
> Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
> Papendiek 16
> 37073 Göttingen
> bbayer-schur at gcdh.de
> Tel. 0551-39-20475
> 
> 
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