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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> Repositories discussion list <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lawson, Gerald J. </span></p>
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Sent:</b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma, sans-serif"> Tuesday, 20 December 2011 5:40 AM</font><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
Subject:</b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma, sans-serif"> Monitoring Open Access Publications<u></u><u></u></font></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Colleagues - some of you will have noticed that the UK Government's "<a href="http://www.bis.gov.uk/innovatingforgrowth" target="_blank">Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth</a>", published last week, contained the following paragraph...<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">6.9 </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">�</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The Research Councils expect the researchers they fund to deposit published articles or conference proceedings in an open access repository at or around the time of publication. But this practice is unevenly enforced. Therefore, as an immediate step, we have asked the Research Councils to ensure the researchers they fund fulfil the current requirements..</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1. It is possible to get information (e.g. through WoS/Eval/ROD/ROS) on publications attributed to RC grants, but during the embargo period it is difficult to tell whether pre-prints or post-prints for these publications have indeed been deposited in a UK Repository. Does anyone know how consistently the </span><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">dc</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">.</span><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">rights</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">.</span><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">embargodate </span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">is implemented by the major UK repository systems? Could this field be output by an aggregation service provided with a list of relevant DOIs ? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2. Does anyone know whether publishers are making a flag available to show which papers in Hybrid Journals are available Open Access - at present there seems to be no way of finding this out apart from trying to download them from a PC with no subscription permissions?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Any ideas welcome?</span></p></div></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica">It is a great strategic mistake to allow and to rely on <i>publishers</i> to be to ones to ensure compliance with the funding councils requirements for its <i>fundees</i>.</span><div style="font-family:Helvetica">
<br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica">The way to ensure compliance is through fundees' institutions, who are already very much involved in ensuring that their researchers fulfill all other funder requirements. </div>
<div style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica">This also has the advantage of encouraging the institutions -- which are the universal providers of <i>all</i> peer-reviewed research, both funded and funded -- to adopt complementary Open Access mandates of their own:</div>
<div style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica"><b><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html">How to Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates</a>:</b></div>
<div style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0px"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(38,38,38)">SUMMARY: </span></b><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Research funder open-access mandates (such as <a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=National%20Institutes%20of%20Health%20%28NIH%29"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">NIH</span></a>'s and <a href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/outputs.aspx"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">RCUK</span></a>'s) and university open-access mandates (such as <a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/fullinfo.php?inst=Harvard%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Arts%20and%20Sciences"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">Harvard</span></a>'s and <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/853-guid.html"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">U. Liege</span></a>'s) are complementary. There is a simple way to integrate funder mandates and university mandates to make them synergistic and mutually reinforcing:</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0px"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(38,38,38)"> Universities' own <a href="http://roar.eprints.org/"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">Institutional Repositories (IRs)</span></a> are the natural locus for the direct deposit of their own research output: Universities (and research institutions) are the universal research providers of <u>all</u> research (funded and unfunded, in all fields) and have a direct interest in archiving, monitoring, measuring, evaluating, and showcasing their own research assets -- as well as in maximizing their uptake, usage and <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">impact</span></a>.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0px"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(38,38,38)"> Universities (and research institutions) also have a direct interest in ensuring that their researchers fulfill their funders' conditions for awarding grants.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Helvetica;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0px"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(38,38,38)"> <u>Both</u> universities and funders should accordingly <a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">mandate</span></a> deposit of all peer-reviewed final drafts (postprints), <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">in each author's own university IR, immediately upon acceptance for publication</span></a>, for both institutional and funder monitoring and record-keeping purposes. Access to that immediate postprint deposit in the author's university IR may be set immediately as Open Access if <a href="http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">copyright conditions</span></a> allow; otherwise access can be set as <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">Closed Access</span></a>, pending <a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/nih/copyright.html"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">copyright negotiations or embargoes</span></a>. All the rest of the conditions described by <a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~secfas/February_2008_Agenda.pdf"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">universities</span></a> and <a href="http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">funders</span></a> should accordingly apply only to the timing and copyright conditions for setting open access to those deposits, not to the depositing itself, its locus or its timing.</span></i></p>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica"><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(38,38,38)"> <b>As a result, (1) there will be a common deposit locus for all research output worldwide; (2) university mandates will reinforce and monitor compliance with funder mandates; (3) funder mandates will reinforce university mandates; (4) <a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/nih/copyright.html"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">legal details concerning open-access provision, copyright and embargoes</span></a> will be applied independently of deposit itself, on a case by case basis, according to the conditions of each mandate; (5) <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/364-guid.html"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">opt-outs</span></a> will apply only to copyright negotiations, not to deposit itself, nor its timing; and (6) any central OA repositories can then <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/341-guid.html"><span style="color:rgb(0,36,87)">harvest</span></a> the postprints from the authors' IRs under the agreed conditions at the agreed time, if they wish.</b></span></i></span> </div>
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</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Gerry Lawson<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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