Overview

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Overview

• Alma Swan
• Key Perspectives Ltd
• Truro, UK

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The scene in the first decade of the new
millennium

• Technologies racing along (ahead / away)
• EU targets and goals
• i2010 vision (Single Information Space)
• Mobility of research professionals
• Lisbon Agenda
• Knowledge Triangle
• Competition for students, staff, rankings

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This meeting

• The Web
• Open Access
• Research policy and management
• Berlin Declaration, EU petition.

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The Web

• Not reached full potential
• Research institution websites
• Dissemination tool
• Enables measurement tools (that bring new
  capabilities to research management and
  policymaking)

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The USouthampton conundrum
The G-Factor rankings (universitymetrics.com)
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Why is Southampton so strong?

• Strong research base
• TBL et al
• Mandatory deposit of research output in ECS
  repository for 4 years (c11K items)
• University repository actively managed and now to
  have mandatory deposit
• All very strong web presence

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Search / retrieve
Other value adding
Aggregate / display
Editorial
Count / assess
Peer review
REPOSITORIES and OA journal content
Ingest layer services
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Repositories in Europe
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Your repository

• Collects institutions outputs in one place
• Shop window / showcase for the institution
• Disseminates the institutions outputs
• Provides the locus for measurement and assessment
  of the institutions efforts

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• Repositories are vital to universities
  economies and to the UK economy as a whole. 
• Professor J Drummond Bone
• President of Universities UK

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Economic impact of Open Access

• With the United Kingdom's GERD Gross
  Expenditure on Research and Development at USD
  33.7 billion and assuming social returns to RD
  of 50, a 5 increase in access and efficiency
  their conservative estimate would have been
  worth USD 1.7 billion and
• Houghton et al, 2006

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For funders The economic arguments
Governments would boost innovation and get a
better return on their investment in publicly
funded research by making research findings more
widely available . and by doing so they would
maximise social returns on public
investments. OECD Report on Scientific
Publishing, 2005
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EUs Innovation Reports

• The RD Triangle research, education, innovation
• SMEs find it hard to get access to the basic
  research information they need to innovate

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Your repository

• Increases your research visibility
• University of Otago Business School
• Launched November 2005
• February 2006 20,000 downloads
• 220 articles
• Increases your research impact

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Open Access increases citations
Range 36-200 (Data Stevan Harnad and
co-workers)
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Your repository

• Increases your research visibility
• University of Otago Business School
• Launched November 2005
• February 2006 20,000 downloads
• 220 articles
• Increases your research impact
• Enables you to collect, track and monitor your
  outputs

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Todays programme

• The infrastructure needed
• The things that can already be measured
• The policies that need to be in place
• The ways forward

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Thank you

• aswan_at_keyperspectives.co.uk
• www.keyperspectives.co.uk

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