The Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER), a collaboration between publishers, repositories and the research community, has announced the appointment of teams from Loughborough University and University College London (UCL) for Behavioural and Usage Research. The research teams were selected by the PEER Executive following an open tendering process and assessment by the members of the PEER Research Oversight Group.
The behavioural research will be undertaken by the Department of Information Science and LISU at Loughborough University. The departments will track trends and explain patterns of author and user behaviour in the context of so called Green Open Access; understand the role repositories play for authors in the context of journal publishing; and understand the role repositories play for users in context of accessing journal articles. A baseline report is due in autumn 2009 and will be made available on the PEER website.
The usage research will be undertaken by the UCL based CIBER group, with the objective to determine usage trends at publishers and repositories; understand source and nature of use of deposited manuscripts in repositories; and track trends, develop indicators and explain patterns of usage for repositories and journals.
Both research teams will provide final reports by mid 2011 and will feed into model development to determine whether (and how) traditional publishing systems can co-exist with self-archiving.
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