From: Repositories discussion list  On Behalf Of Lawson, Gerald J. Â
Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2011 5:40 AM
Subject: Monitoring Open Access Publications
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Colleagues - some of you will have noticed that the UK Government's
"Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth", published last week,
contained the following paragraph...
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6.9Â Â Â Â ??? 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..
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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 dc.rights.embargodate is implemented by the major UK
repository systems?  Could this field be output by an aggregation service
provided with a list of relevant DOIs ?
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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?
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Any ideas welcome?
It is a great strategic mistake to allow and to rely on publishers to be to
ones
to ensure compliance with the funding councils requirements for its fundees.
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.Â
This also has the advantage of encouraging the institutions -- which are the
universal providers of all peer-reviewed research, both funded and funded --
to
adopt complementary Open Access mandates of their own:
How to Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates:
SUMMARY: Research funder open-access mandates (such as NIH's and RCUK's) and
university open-access mandates (such as Harvard's and U. Liege's) are
complementary. There is a simple way to integrate funder mandates and university
mandates to make them synergistic and mutually reinforcing:
      Universities' own Institutional Repositories (IRs) are the
natural locus
for the direct deposit of their own research output: Universities (and research
institutions) are the universal research providers of all 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 impact.
      Universities (and research institutions) also have a direct
interest in
ensuring that their researchers fulfill their funders' conditions for awarding
grants.
      Both universities and funders should accordingly mandate deposit
of all
peer-reviewed final drafts (postprints), in each author's own university IR,
immediately upon acceptance for publication, 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 copyright conditions allow; otherwise access can be set as Closed Access,
pending copyright negotiations or embargoes. All the rest of the conditions
described by universities and funders 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.
    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)Â legal details concerning open-access provision, copyright and
embargoes will
be applied independently of deposit itself, on a case by case basis, according
to the conditions of each mandate; (5) opt-outs will apply only to copyright
negotiations, not to deposit itself, nor its timing; and (6) any central OA
repositories can then harvest the postprints from the authors' IRs under the
agreed conditions at the agreed time, if they wish.Â
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Gerry Lawson
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NERC Research Information Systems
Polaris House SN2 1EU, Swindon
g...@nerc.ac.uk 01793 444417
Skype: gerry.lawson2
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