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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Best, </span></b><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Freestyle Script";color:black'>Michael</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Michael A Mabe<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Chief Executive Officer</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>International Association of STM Publishers</span></b><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Prama House</span></b><span style='color:black'>, </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>267 Banbury Road</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>OXFORD, OX2 7HT, UK</span></b><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:navy'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Mobile: +44 7717 343083</span><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Phone: +44 1865 339321</span><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Direct: +44 1865 339324</span><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Fax: +44 1865 339325<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>E-mail: <a href="mailto:mabe@stm-assoc.org">mabe@stm-assoc.org</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Web: <a href="http://www.stm-assoc.org">www.stm-assoc.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Networking Knowledge Videos<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Check out STMīs new short & smart videos about Scholarly Scientific Publishing – <a href="http://www.stmassoc.org/networking-knowledge">http://www.stmassoc.org/networking-knowledge</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>