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Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)
e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

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Contents
1. Introduction to the LERU Roadmap
2. Benefits of Open Access
3. LERU Open Access Roadmap
4. Documentation to support the Roadmap
5. E-Press interests
6. Conclusions

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Contents
1. Introduction to the LERU Roadmap
2. Benefits of Open Access
3. LERU Open Access Roadmap
4. Documentation to support the Roadmap
5. E-Press Interests
6. Conclusions

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The Mappa Mundi '... it is without 1. Introduction
parallel the most important and
most celebrated medieval map in
any form, the most remarkable
illustrated English manuscript of
any kind, and certainly the greatest
extant thirteenth-century pictorial
manuscript.‘
Christopher
de Hamel

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Contents
1. Introduction to the LERU Roadmap
2. Benefits of Open Access
3. LERU Open Access Roadmap
4. Documentation to support the Roadmap
5. E-Press Interests
6. Conclusions

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2. Benefits of Open Access
 Open Access Benefits
 Institutional
 Provides a front-end to the whole of a University’s research output
 Supports marketing for a University’s offering across the globe
 Personal
 Citation advantage for those who disseminate in Open Access
 Society
 Enables new communities outside Higher Education to view blue-
skies research, e.g. Small/Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
 Political
 Decision and Policy Makers will have full access to University’s
research

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UCL Ph.D Theses

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DART-Europe
E-Theses portal for Open Access
 Portal for discovery of European research theses in Open
Access
 Run by UCL (University College London) for LIBER
 At http://www.dart-europe.eu
 208,423 research theses available (12 June 2011)
 from 338 European Universities
 in 19 European countries

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Open Access to research theses
 Theses freely available in
Open Access are more heavily
used than paper equivalents
 Example: Dublin City
University, 2009
 518 consultations of
paper theses
 16,212 downloads for
the equivalent digital theses See: Hill, R. and Moyle, M. (2010)
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/19955

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Contents
1. Introduction to the LERU Roadmap
2. Benefits of Open Access
3. LERU Open Access Roadmap
4. Documentation to support the Roadmap
5. E-Press Interests
6. Conclusions

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3. LERU Open Access Roadmap
 Top-level findings
 Open Access can be viewed in the wider context
of Open Scholarship and Open Knowledge
 Each LERU University could consider appointing a senior
Officer to act as Open Access champion
 Some LERU Universities are interested in collaborations
over Open Access publishing, particularly for Open Access
monograph publishing in the Arts, Humanities and Social
Sciences

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LERU Open Access Roadmap
 Roadmap highlights current LERU practices
UCL (University College London) Open Access mandate
Publications fund in the University of Barcelona
Award-winning strategy for Open Access in the University
of Zürich
 Roadmap available via
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1310639/
http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/publications/

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Green route
 Institutional repositories provide a basis for Open Access
approaches (para. 20)
 Costs vary from €30,000 - €242,000 per year in the UK
(para. 22)
 Communications Strategy needed to support advocacy
(para. 23)
 Universities need to be clear about what type of material is
being deposited (para. 25)

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Green route
 University of Helsinki requires authors to deposit copies of
their research articles published in academic journals in
HELDA – the institutional repository (para. 25)
 Open Access Strategy should be embedded in pan-
University Strategies (para. 30)
 Research
 Copyright
 Teaching & Learning

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Green route
 LERU Universities can consider adopting Open Access
mandates at an institutional level (paras 32-34)
 Authors should not assign their copyright to publishers
 Better model is for authors to grant non-exclusive rights to an
author to publish (para. 35)
 Research data, once made available in Open Access,
opens up opportunities for re-use and collaboration (para.
36)

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Green route
 There is a gap in the current European infrastructure for
long-term secure digital preservation
 Certainly as concerns Open Access repositories and Open Access
journals
 LERU, research funders and other stakeholders can work together
to identify what infrastructure is needed and who should provide it
(para. 38)

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Gold route
 Changes are taking place in scholarly publishing across
the world and LERU institutions are not exempt (para. 40)
 Sustainable Business Models for Gold Open Access
publishing need to be developed (para. 42)
 Two models currently exist
 Full Open Access journals
 Hybrid Journals, which allow Author-Pays charges
Problem of ‘double dipping’ should be addressed (paras 43-4)

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Gold route
 LERU, perhaps with others, could investigate reductions in Author
Payment charges with publishers and membership fees with Open
Access publishers (para. 46)
 Changes to existing publishing models will incur transition costs
 LERU and/or other Universities can work with other stakeholders to
leverage funding (para. 48)
 LERU institutions can work with Open Access monograph publishers
 Particularly where the languages are other than English (para. 49)

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Gold route
 There is a need for a cross-institutional study to identify
University commitments to the current publishing models
 Authorships
 Peer reviewing
 Membership of Editorial Boards
 Resulting study would act as a baseline for future
developments into the Open Access arena (para. 51)

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Contents
1. Introduction to the LERU Roadmap
2. Benefits of Open Access
3. LERU Open Access Roadmap
4. Documentation to support the Roadmap
5. E-Press Interests
6. Conclusions

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4. Documentation to support the Roadmap
 At a policy and academic levels
 EOS (Enabling Open Scholarship)
Materials on Open Access available
 Materials available regionally/nationally
 JISC has advocacy materials which can be re-used
 European Workshops to skill key Open Access staff
 OAI Workshops in Geneva
OAI7 in Geneva 22-24 June 2011

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Enabling Open Scholarship

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OAI Workshops at
the University
of Geneva

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Contents
1. Introduction to the LERU Roadmap
2. Benefits of Open Access
3. LERU Open Access Roadmap
4. Documentation to support the Roadmap
5. E-Press Interests
6. Conclusions

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E-Press Interests
 LERU held a meeting on E-Press initiatives at Oxford
University Press in April 2011
 LERU members reported on current activities
 Cambridge University Press found that take-up of Open Access
options was currently low
 Utrecht currently publishes 18 Open Access journals and is
interested in collaborating in publishing activities
 Edinburgh University Press feels that the main asset a University
Press has is its brand; the main challenge is a decline in the
market

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Issues from the
Oxford meeting
 LERU community of Chief Librarians will develop a plan of
work, based on Roadmap and ongoing discussions
 Smaller University Presses were interested in collaboration
 LERU members would be invited to meet to discuss collaborations
over the Green route
 Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences might represent fruitful areas
for collaboration
 Especially in monograph publishing

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Issues from the
Oxford meeting
 There was interest in LERU publishing further papers on
scholarly communication developments
 ‘Publish or Perish’ syndrome
 Metrics, especially alternative metrics on impact
 Issues around the ‘Big Deal’ and its consequences
 Impact on publishing patterns of external review exercises such as
the REF in the UK (Research Excellence Framework)

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Contents
1. Introduction to the LERU Roadmap
2. Benefits of Open Access
3. LERU Open Access Roadmap
4. Documentation to support the Roadmap
5. E-Press Interests
6. Conclusions

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Conclusions
 Roadmap Towards Open Access agreed by all LERU members
 Universities can appoint senior Officer to champion Open Access
issues locally
 Interest in collaboration amongst smaller LERU University Presses
 Particularly in Open Access monograph publishing
 Further position papers/studies in a number of areas in Scholarly
Communication will be produced by LERU members
 LERU Roadmap is a map which all European Universities could use

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And …
 Thank you
for listening
 Further
presentations
and discussion
to follow