Prof. Stevan Harnad, one of the pioneers of the open access (OA) movement worldwide, will be reporting on metrics to evaluate the impact of peer-reviewed research papers, at three conferences in Europe this month.
The professor from the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) will deliver a keynote on September 10 on 'Open Research Metrics and the Open Access Advantage' at Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands. In his keynote, he will point out that as peer-reviewed research literature becomes openly accessible online, the era of open research metrics is approaching. He will present data on the OA citation advantage as well as methodological recommendations for validating metrics.
Recently at a public meeting of university and funding council policy-makers in Copenhagen, 'Mandating (Green) Open Access to Maximise the Usage and Impact of Danish Research', Prof. Harnad presented the findings of the Houghton Report showing that if all Danish research were self-archived, it would save Denmark over DK 200 million, with a benefit/cost ratio of over 10 to 1. It also found that OA enhances research usage and impact by 25-250 percent.
At the euroCRIS, the annual Current Research Information Systems seminar in Brussels, scheduled for September 13-14, Prof. Harnad will talk about analysing the impact of research archived in institutional repositories. The topic which will be acknowledged by the conference as one which is becoming increasingly important.
In a presentation entitled 'Institutional Repositories for Open Access: Mandates Deposit Policies', he will discuss why it is that although over 90 percent of journals already endorse immediate OA self-archiving by their authors, only about 20 percent of authors go ahead and do it.
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