How can Universities handle the new challenges of Research communication ? Bernard Rentier Honorary Rector, ULg Chairman, Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) (www.openscholarship.org) Aarhus October 27, 2014 What is Open Access ? • It is NOT disclosing secret information (what is published is ipso facto public) • It is getting rid of a toll. Research results should be equally accessible to all Two ways to establish open access • Green OA : publish as usual, deposit in a repository immediately after publication, open the access as soon as possible • Gold OA : publish directly in open access The dangers of Gold OA • The "author pays" mode : • There is an obvious conflict of interest : "if I pay, you have to publish my work" • Publishers have started to reverse the process : expect high prices • New "publishers" building commercial operations without proper quality control What are the motivations to create and open a repository ? • Register and make an inventory of the all publications by members of our Institution • Allow our researchers to reach a wider audience, and quicker • Provide our researchers with a set of high added value tools for their publications (metrics, tracking, etc) • Improve the internal evaluation procedures • Eventually reduce the cost of access to scholar literature • Be in line with the requiredments of the European Commission What are the challenges when creating and opening a repository ? • Win confidence - Researchers must adhere and comply willingly • Use sticks but mostly carrots - Researchers must appropriate the tool for themselves ORBi Official Statement • Mandate • All publications • Full text since 2002 • Only publications taken into account for internal evaluations (grants, promotions, etc.) • Freedom of choice • Abiding with embargo rules if required ORBi (20.10.14) 114.215 deposits69,120 with full text ORBi 43% 32% 7% 4% 15% Periodicals Abstracts Book chapters Speeches, lectures Reports, patents & other Caution : proper labeling ! ORBi Visits: > 6.000 / day Downloads: > 4.000 / day Monthly rates MyORbi ORBi Open Repository & Bibliography Institutional Repository : Green Open Access ORBi's compliance: % deposits 2012 ULg publications in WoS : 82,65 % and in Scopus : 82,04 % 86% in 2013 Objective for 2014 : 90% Compliance: full text 100% 50%51% Full text Metadata only 41% 59% Articles in periodicals since 2002 Other documents (non mandatory) Prior to 2002 Benefits : readership Impact of open or restricted access on downloading on average per article 0 10 20 30 40 X 18,1 Benefits : citations Impact of the presence or not in ORBi on citations (average per article) in Scopus (n=351) or in WoS (n=7673) in 2011-2012 Scopus WoS0 2 4 6 8 ULg authors are depositing early on Benefits increase in readership increase in citations personal inventory statistical data dynamic reporting integrated widget FNRS interoperability institutional reports institutional visibility Benefits Great discovery tools (Primo, EBSCO, EDS...) have started integrating ORBi data Derivative of ORBi for master theses : MATHEO (MAster THEses Online) PoPuPS : institutional publication tool ORBi and its mandate are being reproduced All belgian universities FNRS University of the Minho, Portugal ORBi-lu and ULg-type mandate at the University of Luxembourg ORBi-lor at the University of Lorraine, France Collaboration with the University of Angers, France Etc. Open Access Gold Free : OK "Author pays" : danger of escalating costs again Freemium : optional payment for added-value services Perverting the gold OA model OA journals : 172 million $ in 2012 = 2,8% scholarly publication revenues (6 billion $/yr) 34% increase since 2011 should reach 336 million $ in 2015 number of OA articles should increase by 194,000 (on a total of 1.7 million publications) to 352,000 Scholarly publication tomorrow ? Perspectives Liquid publication Open data Better exploitation of informatic tools Interactivity Transparency index Reproducibility initiative Mail: brentier@ulg.ac.be Website: www.openscholarship.org Blog: bernardrentier.wordpress.com