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<td>Open access to Dutch research stagnating</td>
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<td>Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:42:31 +0200</td>
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<p class="NoSpacing"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB">The message below<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>has
just been posted on the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.surf.nl/en/actueel/Pages/OpenAccesstoDutchresearchstagnating.aspx">SURF
website</a> and might be of interest to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"
lang="EN-GB">Open access to Dutch research stagnating<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"
lang="EN-GB">Higher education sector needs to formulate
policy and work arrangements for Open Access </span></b><b><i><span
style="font-size:8.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Utrecht, 2 April 2012 –
</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">Open Access to higher education
research results is not increasing. This is shown by the <b><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.surf.nl/SiteCollectionDocuments/Monitor2011_strategicsynopsis_ENGdef.pdf">Dutch
Research Repositories Monitor 2011</a></b>*, a study
commissioned by <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.surf.nl/en/Pages/default.aspx">SURF</a>.
Although the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/">Berlin
Declaration on Open Access</a> has been signed by all the
Dutch universities, the Association of Universities of Applied
Sciences (HBO-raad), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences (KNAW), and the Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research (NWO), it has not been put to action in
the form of specific objectives. There are only a few
universities at which the percentage of Open Access
publications exceeds 20%. In the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hbo-kennisbank.nl/en/page/home/">Knowledge
Bank for Universities of Applied Sciences</a>, which
provides access to the knowledge products of these
institutions, the number of openly accessible publications and
graduation projects is lagging behind the number of graduates
and <i>lectoraten</i> (knowledge networks). The study
compares the situation of the university repositories in 2007
and 2011. This is the first time such a study has been carried
out for the universities of applied sciences. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The report makes
recommendations for the higher education and research sector
to increase the accessibility of Dutch research: formulate
joint policy and make it easy for authors to deposit their
publications. Collective work arrangements regarding the
national infrastructure must also be maintained and updated.
The report offers a means for determining, in collaboration
with the parties concerned, how these recommendations should
be implemented and by whom.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Repositories supplying
NARCIS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The publications that are
made available via the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.narcis.nl/?Language=en">NARCIS</a> research
portal are supplied by universities and research institutions.
The study shows that the total number of publications in
NARCIS is increasing but that the number to which there is
Open Access remains static. There are only a few universities
at which the percentage of Open Access publications (as
registered for <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.vsnu.nl/Universiteiten/Branchejaarverslag-2010.htm">VSNU
reports</a>) exceeds 20%. That is not any substantial
improvement compared to the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.surf.nl/nl/publicaties/Pages/SURFsharenulmeting%27Nederlandseacademischerepositories%E2%80%99.aspx">monitor
for 2007</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="SURFstandaardtekst"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="SURFstandaardtekst"><span lang="EN-GB">The NARCIS
website has a number of deficiencies; these are due partly to
the repositories that supply it and partly to the central
processing of the data harvested from the repositories. One
significant handicap is the lack of joint work arrangements in
line with the latest technical developments. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Repositories supplying
the Knowledge Bank for Universities of Applied Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="SURFstandaardtekst"><span lang="EN-GB">The Knowledge
Bank for Universities of Applied Sciences (<i>HBO Kennisbank</i>)
harvests and displays the content of the repositories of 21 of
these institutions. At the end of 2011, this involved a total
of almost 20,000 publications, with Open Access to 15,000 of
these. It is not possible to establish how this relates to the
total number of publications by an institution because neither
the Association of Universities of Applied Sciences nor the
institutions have the relevant figures. It would seem,
however, that only a limited proportion of research
publications find their way into the Knowledge Bank. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="SURFstandaardtekst"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="SURFstandaardtekst"><span lang="EN-GB">The available
student graduation projects are all available by means of Open
Access. The numbers have continued to rise in recent years to
almost 2000 in 2010, but the number of graduation assignments
available is only a fraction of the total number of students
who have graduated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="SURFstandaardtekst"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Scenario for the future<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The study investigated the
Open Access availability of the research output at research
universities, universities of applied sciences, and research
institutions. It also looked at the administration and
organisation of the repository infrastructure, technical
developments, and the services provided on the basis of
repositories. The authors, Maurits van de Graaf and Leo
Waaijers, then sketch a scenario for the future for <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.narcis.nl/?Language=en">NARCIS</a> and the
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hbo-kennisbank.nl/en/page/home/">Knowledge
Bank for Universities of Applied Sciences</a>, and they make
recommendations to the institutions. The main outlines of the
recommendations in the report have already been discussed with
representatives of the institutions concerned. The
representatives see the recommendations as a useful basis for
a broad discussion with the stakeholders regarding making
arrangements and the division of tasks with a view to
optimisation. SURF will coordinate the reorientation of the
repository infrastructure. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">NARCIS and the
Knowledge Bank for Universities of Applied Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The Dutch research
universities have been working on an infrastructure for Open
Access to knowledge since 2003. They have set up a network of
repositories in order to store publications and make them
accessible via the Internet. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.narcis.nl/?Language=en">NARCIS</a> is the
central portal for research information produced by the Dutch
research universities and research institutions. Following the
example given by the research universities, the universities
of applied sciences began construction of a similar network a
few years later. The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hbo-kennisbank.nl/en/page/home/">Knowledge
Bank for Universities of Applied Sciences</a> is the joint
portal – with functionality including a search function – for
users of the knowledge products generated by these
institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">About SURF</span></b><span
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">SURF is the collaborative
organisation for academic universities, universities of
applied sciences and research institutions aimed at
breakthrough innovations in ICT. SURF supports higher
education and research in taking optimum advantage of the
possibilities offered by ICT to improve the quality of
education and research. SURF provides the foundation for the
excellence of higher education and research in the
Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">* the report is only
available in Dutch. The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.surf.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/Monitorsynopsis.aspx">Strategic
Synopsis is available in English</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Annemiek van der Kuil<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Annemiek
van der Kuil | community manager ICT & Research | SURF |
Graadt van Roggenweg 340 | P.O.Box 2290 | 3500 GG Utrecht | T
+ 31 30 234 66 42 | E </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="blocked::mailto:vanderkuil@surf.nl"
title="blocked::mailto:vanderkuil@surf.nl
mailto:vanderkuil@surf.nl"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">vanderkuil@surf.nl</span></a><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">
W <u><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.surf.nl">www.surf.nl</a></u></span><span
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