[GOAL] Comment on David Prosser's Posting about the PEER Project Results

[Michael Mabe]

As Chair of the PEER Project Partner Consortium I must remind David that the caveats made about the usage results don't allow him to characterise the results as he has in his last posting. The usage researcher Dr Ian Rowlands was explicit at the beginning of his presentation about what the results DID NOT show and asked all commenting to respect that in any tweets or blog comments. Explicitly in the six month usage report that will be released in a couple of weeks, the CIBER group say:

 

It is important in any communication regarding PEER usage findings to be clear about the specific aims (and limitations) of the experimental design.  The specific aim is to model the impacts, if any, of the large-scale deposit of EU-27 authored materials.  It is not an experiment with wider ambitions to model the impact of Green open access more generally.  

 

In addition (a point also made by Paul Ayris of LIBER in the closing roundtable of the meeting), while a modest increase in downloads at publisher sites was observed the reasons for it are not clear. Ian posited a number of possibilities: artefacts of the experimental set up such as high quality PEER metadata, the presence of a clickable DOI on the repository version, and the complex nature of usage paths on the internet.

 

All the slides from the conference will be posted at the PEER project site later today and the full research reports after the final review meeting with the EC

 

Best, Michael

 

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