Green Open Access as a global solution? Some reflections based on the PEER Project

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Green Open Access as a global solution?Some
reflections based on the PEER Project

• Chris Armbruster
• Research Associate, Max Planck Digital Library,
  Max Planck Society
• Executive Director, Research Network 1989
• Author page http//ssrn.com/author434782

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Publishing and the Ecology of European Research
(PEER)

• Project partners agree to disagree but cooperate
  in large-scale Green OA experiment.
• 60.000 articles become available for OA archiving
  as Version 2 more than 240 quality journals
  from STM publishers across the disciplines (incl.
  SSH), filtered for EU content, subject to varying
  embargoes.
• Shared objectives centre on determining increases
  in access, effects on journal viability,
  readiness to deposit, costs to participants,
  wider effects on ecology of research, possible
  models of co-existence.
• More information http//www.peerproject.eu/

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Some highlights

• The PEER Depot a central node for deposit and
  distribution to repositories
• Direct publisher author deposit to Depot of
  so-called Version 2
• A rich set of comparisons and contrasts for usage
  based on logfiles
• In-depth study and wide survey of behavioural
  consequences and attitudes
• Detailed examination of costs to repositories and
  publishers, as well as authors and users.

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Some challenges

• The non-trivial consequences of large-scale
  deposit for repository and publisher management,
  funding policy.
• The struggle for relevance delayed access
  (embargo) version control (authoritativeness)
  visibility and usage.
• New readers? Public access as Public
  Understanding of Science? Or as Public Teaching
  Learning?

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Recent publications and working papers

• Beyond Institutional Repositories (with Laurent
  Romary). International Journal of Digital Library
  Systems 1(1) (forthcoming, 2010). Available at
  SSRN http//ssrn.com/abstract1425692
• Comparing Repositories Challenges and Barriers
  for Subject-Based Repositories, Research
  Repositories, National Repository Systems and
  Institutional Repositories in Serving Scholarly
  Communication (with Laurent Romary) (November 23,
  2009). Available at http//ssrn.com/abstract15069
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• Whose Metrics? On Building Citation, Usage and
  Access Metrics as Information Service for
  Scholars. Learned Publishing 23(1) (forthcoming,
  2010). Available at http//ssrn.com/abstract14647
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• The European Research Conundrum When Research
  Organizations Impede Scientific and Technological
  Breakthroughs Despite Targets, Money and Policy
  to Foster These Activities (October 27, 2009).
  Available at http//ssrn.com/abstract1494534