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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:19:48 -0500
From: Katy Borner
Subject: Talk by Stevan Harnad on 12/04, 6-7p, Wells (Main) Library 001
Scientometrics in the Open Access Era
Stevan Harnad, Université du Québec à Montréal & University of
Southampton & American Scientist Open Access Forum
Monday December 4th, 2006 | 6-7p | Wells Library 001
ABSTRACT:
The "Open Access (OA) Advantage" in citations consists of: Early
Advantage (early self-archiving produces both earlier and more
citations), Usage Advantage (more downloads for OA articles, correlated
with later citations), Competitive Advantage (relative citation
advantage of OA over non-OA articles: disappears at 100% OA), Quality
Advantage (OA advantage is higher, the higher the quality of the
article) and Quality Bias (authors selectively self-archiving their
higher quality articles - a non-causal component: disappears at 100%
OA). We are currently comparing the OA advantage for mandated and
spontaneous (self-selected) self-archiving. The growing webwide database
of Open Access (OA) articles, the proposed US Federal Research Public
Access Act (FRPAA) and the UK Research Assessment Exercise's recent
transition to metrics will make it possible to: (1) motivate more
researchers to provide OA by self-archiving; (2) map the growth of OA
across disciplines, countries and languages; (3) navigate the OA
literature using citation-linking and impact ranking; (4) measure,
extrapolate and predict the research impact of individuals, groups,
institutions, disciplines, languages and countries; (5) measure research
performance and productivity, (6) assess candidates for research
funding; (7) assess the outcome of research funding, (8) map the course
of prior research lines, in terms of individuals, institutions,
journals, fields, nations; (9) analyze and predict the direction of
current and future research trajectories; and (10) provide teaching and
learning resources that guide students (via impact navigation) through
the large and growing OA research literature in a way that navigating
the web via google alone cannot come close to doing.
References:
Shadbolt, N., Brody, T., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2006) The Open
Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable, in Jacobs,
N., Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects,
Chandos.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12453/
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http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12453/>
Berners-Lee, T., De Roure, D., Harnad, S. and Shadbolt, N.
(2005) Journal publishing and author self-archiving: Peaceful
Co-Existence and Fruitful Collaboration.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11160/
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Stevan Harnad will also give a talk on Monday morning 11a entitled
"Maximizing the Return on Resource Investment in Research", State Room
East, IMU.
Research Funding Councils and Universities worldwide are at last
beginning to realise that it is high time (indeed well overdue) to
maximise the returns on their research investment by mandating Open
Access self-archiving (see references below: Harnad et al. 2003; Sale
2006a,b,c,d; Swan 2006). The purpose of this talk will be to discuss how
a mandated Open-Access self-archiving policy could enhance return on
investment in research.
As background, in a recent preprint, Houghton & Sheehan (2006), using
estimates from economic modeling, have confirmed the substantial
potential enhancement of the return on resource investment in research
if the resulting articles are made Open Access :
"Whether applied across the board or to sector specific research findings
(e.g. open access to publicly funded research) it seems that there may
be substantial potential benefits to be gained from more open access.
With Germany's GERD [GERD = Gross Expenditure on Research and
Development] at USD 58.7 billion and assuming social returns to R&D
of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency would have been worth
USD 3 billion;
With Japan's GERD at USD 112.7 billion and assuming social returns
to R&D of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency would have been
worth USD 5.8 billion;
With the United State's GERD at USD 312.5 billion and assuming social
returns to R&D of 50%, a 5% increase in access and efficiency would
have been worth USD 16 billion.
"While it is impossible to calculate the quantum of benefits with
certainty, these simple estimates of the potential impacts of enhanced
access on returns to R&D suggest that a move towards more open access may
have substantial positive impacts... Given substantial R&D expenditures
and the scale of the potential impacts identified in this preliminary
work, these issues represent fertile ground for further policy relevant
inquiry."
These estimates agree substantially with prior estimates that have been
made (e.g., for the UK, Canada and Australia, see references below:
Harnad 2005a,b,c).
References
Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C. (2003) Mandated online
RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Improving the UK Research
Assessment Exercise whilst making it cheaper and easier. Ariadne 35
(April 2003).
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/
Harnad, S. (2005a) Making the case for web-based self-archiving. Research
Money 19 (16).
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11534/
Harnad, S. (2005b) Maximising the Return on UK's Public Investment in
Research.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11220/
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/28-guid.html
Harnad, Stevan (2005c) Australia Is Not Maximising the Return on its
Research Investment. In Steele, Prof Colin, Eds. Proceedings National
Scholarly Communications Forum 2005, Sydney, Australia.
http://eprints.utas.edu.au/204/
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/41-guid.html
Harnad, S. (2006) Opening Access by Overcoming Zeno's
Paralysis, in Jacobs, N., Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic,
Technical and Economic Aspects, chapter 8. Chandos.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12094/
Sale, Arthur (2006a) Researchers and institutional repositories,
in Jacobs, Neil, Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic
Aspects, chapter 9, pages 87-100. Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Limited.
http://eprints.utas.edu.au/257/
Sale, Arthur (2006b) Comparison of IR content
policies in Australia. First Monday 11(4).
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_4/sale/index.html
Sale, Arthur (2006c) The impact of mandatory
policies on ETD acquisition. D-Lib Magazine 12(4).
http://eprints.utas.edu.au/267/
Sale, Arthur (2006d) Generic Risk Analysis - Open Access for your
institution. Technical Report, School of Computing, University of
Tasmania.
http://eprints.utas.edu.au/266/
Sale, Arthur (2006e) Maximizing the research impact of your publications.
Technical Report, School of Computing, University of Tasmania.
http://eprints.utas.edu.au/279/
Sale, Arthur (2006f) The acquisition of open access research articles.
First Monday 11(10) October
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_10/sale/index.html
Shadbolt, N., Brody, T., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2006) The Open
Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable, in Jacobs,
N., Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects,
chapter 21. Chandos.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12453/
Swan, A. (2006) The culture of Open Access: researchers'
views and responses, in Jacobs, N., Eds. Open Access: Key
Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, chapter 7. Chandos.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12428/
Prior American Scientist Open Access Forum Topic Thread:
"What Provosts Need to Mandate" (2003)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#3241
"Maximising the Return on UK's Public Investment in Research" (2005)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject,html#4755.html
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Information Science & Cognitive Science
Indiana University, SLIS
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