14 Open Access Mandates and the Fair Dealing Button

Sale, Ahj; Couture, Marc; Rodrigues, Elóy; Carr, Leslie; Harnad, Stevan

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“…(Note that RA deposits are indirectly accessible even during the OA embargo through individual user requests to authors via the repository's copy‐request Button; Sale et al. . )…”

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Estimating open access mandate effectiveness: The MELIBEA score

Vincent-Lamarre

Boivin

Gargouri

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MELIBEA is a directory of institutional open-access policies for research output that uses a composite formula with eight weighted conditions to estimate the "strength" of Open Access mandates (registered in ROARMAP). We analyzed total Web of Science-(WoS)-indexed publication output in years 2011-2013 for 67 institutions where OA was mandated in order to estimate the mandates' effectiveness: How well did the MELIBEA score and its individual conditions predict what percentage of the WoS-indexed articles is actually deposited in each institution's OA repository, and when. We found a small but significant positive correlation (0.18) between the MELIBEA "strength" score and deposit percentage. For three of the eight MELIBEA conditions (deposit timing, internal use, and opt-outs), one value of each was strongly associated with deposit percentage or latency (1: immediate deposit required; 2: deposit required for performance evaluation; 3: unconditional opt-out allowed for the OA requirement but no opt-out for deposit requirement). When we updated the initial values and weights of the MELIBEA formula to reflect the empirical association we had found, the score's predictive power for mandate effectiveness doubled (.36). There are not yet enough OA mandates to test further mandate conditions that might contribute to mandate effectiveness, but the present findings already suggest that it would be productive for existing and future mandates to adopt the three identified conditions so as to maximize their effectiveness, and thereby the growth of OA.

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“…(Note that RA deposits are indirectly accessible even during the OA embargo through individual user requests to authors via the repository's copy‐request Button; Sale et al. . )…”

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confidence: 99%

Estimating open access mandate effectiveness: The MELIBEA score

Vincent-Lamarre

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Gargouri

et al. 2015

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“…27 There are also other request buttons. 28 What is distinctive about the Open Access Button as an infrastructural experiment, though, is that it not only facilitates access and requests, but also documents and datafies access issues, assembling a public in order to challenge and problematize existing infrastructures and mobilize around alternatives.…”

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Infrastructural Experiments and the Politics of Open Access

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2020

Reassembling Scholarly Communications

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How can digital technologies make research publicly available? 1 Available for whom, and to what end? Many definitions and declarations of open access argue for the removal of "price and permission barriers." 2 For example, the widely cited Budapest Open Access Initiative suggests that open access entails: free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself [emphasis added]. 3 Such barrier-removal talk might be taken as a sign that open access advances a "negative" conception of openness focusing on the removal of constraints, rather than more substantive "positive" conceptions of who and what openaccess research is for and the conditions under which it might thrive. 4 A closer look suggests, perhaps unsurprisingly, that there are many ways in which open access is mobilized, advocated, and practiced in the service of a range of different kinds of social, cultural, political, and economic values and visions of the future. 5

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“…Second, RCUK should implement a compliance verification mechanism with the following eight essential conditions: 1) immediate deposit (even if access to the deposit is allowed to be embargoed: no delayed deposit) 37 2) of the final peer-reviewed draft…”

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Worldwide open access: UK leadership?

Harnad¹

2013

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The web is destined to become humankind's cognitive commons, where digital knowledge is jointly created and freely shared. The UK has been a leader in the global movement toward open access (OA) to research but recently its leadership has been derailed by the joint influence of the publishing industry lobby from without and well-intentioned but premature and unhelpful over-reaching from within the OA movement itself. The result has been the extremely counterproductive 'Finch Report' followed by a new draft of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) OA mandate, downgrading the role of cost-free OA selfarchiving of research publications ('green OA') in favor of paying subscription publishers over and above subscriptions, out of scarce research funds, in exchange for making single articles OA ('hybrid gold OA'). The motivation of the new policy is to reform publication and to gain certain re-use rights (CC-BY), but the likely effect would be researcher resistance, very little OA and a waste of research funds. There is still time to fix the RCUK mandate and restore the UK's leadership by taking a few very specific steps to clarify and strengthen the green component by adding a mechanism for monitoring and verifying compliance, with consequences for non-compliance, along lines also being adopted in the EC and the US.

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14 Open Access Mandates and the Fair Dealing Button

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Estimating open access mandate effectiveness: The MELIBEA score

Estimating open access mandate effectiveness: The MELIBEA score

Infrastructural Experiments and the Politics of Open Access

Worldwide open access: UK leadership?

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