October 23 - 29, 2023 | Everywhere
OA Mandate Adoption Challenge for Institutions and Funders
University of Southampton/EPrints is launching a week-long Open Access Mandate Adoption Challenge for OA Week.
On October 18, the first day of OA week, the results of a study will be published in PLoS ONEdemonstrating that the well-known higher probability of being used and cited for research that has be... is indeed caused by the OA itself, and not an artifact of a researcher biastoward self-selectively making research OA that has a higher probability of being used and cited. The proof is that when OA is mandated by researchers' institutions for all research output, the OA citation advantage is just as great as for self-selective OA.
Self-selective OA rates today vary (depending on the field) between 3 and 34% of yearly research output; but when mandated, total OA rates jump to 60% and rise toward 100% within a few years of mandate adoption.
The implication of these findings is that -- in order to maximize research usage, citation and impact for the benefit of the tax-paying public that funds the research -- all research institutions and funders should mandate making all their research output OA.
Representatives of universities, research institutions and research funders the world over that have adopted (or are planning to adopt) an OA mandate are invited to register their policy inROARMAP (the Registry of Open Access Material Archiving Policies) as a show of force during OA week, setting an example to encourage other institutions and funders worldwide to do likewise.
If you know of an OA mandate -- already adopted or proposed -- that has not yet been registered in ROARMAP, please register it (or encourage a relevant official to register it).
Please register your mandate in ROARMAP HERE
Progress in mandate growth during OA week will be charted by Dr. Alma Swan (a Program Advisor for OA Week) in OASIS (Open Access Information Sourcebook) [reaches growth chart directly], EOS [click here twice to get to growth chart] (EnablingOpenScholarship) and elsewhere.
Please feel free to re-use to promote OA. All Open Access Week postings by Stevan Harnad are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada License. Most are based on works at openaccess.eprints.org.
On October 18, the first day of OA week, the results of a study will be published in PLoS ONEdemonstrating that the well-known higher probability of being used and cited for research that has be... is indeed caused by the OA itself, and not an artifact of a researcher biastoward self-selectively making research OA that has a higher probability of being used and cited. The proof is that when OA is mandated by researchers' institutions for all research output, the OA citation advantage is just as great as for self-selective OA.
Self-selective OA rates today vary (depending on the field) between 3 and 34% of yearly research output; but when mandated, total OA rates jump to 60% and rise toward 100% within a few years of mandate adoption.
The implication of these findings is that -- in order to maximize research usage, citation and impact for the benefit of the tax-paying public that funds the research -- all research institutions and funders should mandate making all their research output OA.
Representatives of universities, research institutions and research funders the world over that have adopted (or are planning to adopt) an OA mandate are invited to register their policy inROARMAP (the Registry of Open Access Material Archiving Policies) as a show of force during OA week, setting an example to encourage other institutions and funders worldwide to do likewise.
If you know of an OA mandate -- already adopted or proposed -- that has not yet been registered in ROARMAP, please register it (or encourage a relevant official to register it).
Please register your mandate in ROARMAP HERE
Progress in mandate growth during OA week will be charted by Dr. Alma Swan (a Program Advisor for OA Week) in OASIS (Open Access Information Sourcebook) [reaches growth chart directly], EOS [click here twice to get to growth chart] (EnablingOpenScholarship) and elsewhere.
Please feel free to re-use to promote OA. All Open Access Week postings by Stevan Harnad are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada License. Most are based on works at openaccess.eprints.org. Views: 156
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