On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:44 PM, CHARLES OPPENHEIM < c.oppenh...@btinternet.com> wrote:
This is a significant and important set of findings, which should be > forwarded on to decision-makers, both in Universities and in funding > agencies. > > More like this, please Stevan > > Professor Charles Oppenheim > More on the way. But meanwhile, OA advocates, *please do forward these findings on mandate strength to decision-makers at your university and funding agencies*. It's now more important than ever to make sure that OA policy decisions are evidence-based, especially to counter the extensive negative effects of the publishing lobby, as most dramatically exerted very recently on the Finch Report and the resulting RCUK policy<http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/342580/1/harnad-cilip.pdf> . Stevan Harnad ------------------------------ > *From:* Stevan Harnad <amscifo...@gmail.com> > *To:* jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk > *Sent:* Friday, 26 October 2012, 18:59 > *Subject:* OA Week: Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA Mandate > Effectiveness > > In June 2012, the UK Finch Committee made the following statement: > > *"The [Green OA] policies of neither research funders nor universities > themselves have yet had a major effect in ensuring that researchers make > their publications accessible in institutional repositories…"* *[Finch > Committee Recommendation, June > 2012<http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-Group-report-FINAL-VERSION.pdf> > ]** * > > * > * > *Testing the Finch Hypothesis* > We have now tested the Finch Hypothesis. Using data from ROARMAP > institutional Green OA mandates and data from ROAR on institutional > repositories, we found that deposit number and rate is significantly > correlated with mandate strength (classified as 1-12): The stronger the > mandate, the more the deposits. The strongest mandates generate deposit > rates of 70%+ within 2 years of adoption, compared to the un-mandated > deposit rate of 20%. The effect is already detectable at the national > level, where the UK, which has the largest proportion of Green OA mandates, > has a national OA rate of 35%, compared to the global baseline of 25%. > > *Conclusion** > *The conclusion is that, contrary to the Finch Hypothesis, Green Open > Access Mandates *do* have a major effect, and the stronger the mandate, > the stronger the effect (the Liege ID/OA > mandate<http://roarmap.eprints.org/56/>, > linked to research performance evaluation, being the strongest mandate > model). > RCUK<http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/documents/RCUK%20_Policy_on_Access_to_Research_Outputs.pdf> > (as > well as all universities, research institutions and research funders > worldwide) would be well advised to adopt the strongest Green OA mandates > and to integrate institutional and funder mandates. > The findings are in the link below. *Discussion invited!* > Gargouri, Yassine, Lariviere, Vincent, Gingras, Yves, Brody, Tim, Carr, > Les and Harnad, Stevan (2012) Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA > Mandate Effectiveness <http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/344687/>. *Open Access > Week 2012* > * * > > > >
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