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Queensland University of Technology CRICOS No. 000213J Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.1 licence (Australia)Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R 2

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Queensland University of Technology CRICOS No. 000213J

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a university for the world real R 7 x Faculties Built Environment and Engineering Business Creative Industries Education Health Law Science and Technology 4 x Research institutes Heath and Biomedical Innovation Creative Industries and Innovation Sustainable Resources Information Security 4

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Open access is, simply, the idea that research articles should be freely, immediately and permanently available online to anyone, rather than locked away in subscription journals as many currently are. Zoe Corbyn, THES, 12 November 2009. 5

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Costs of scholarly communication already high Further compounded by need to import Currencies at points of origin generally stronger than Australian Dollar 6

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Researcher Motivation the ceaseless quest for recognition and/or impact Economic Imperative - the input/output distortions of the scholarly publishing business (the issue of moral hazard) The Technology Enablers the net + application 7

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Watching the debates since the 90s Exploring the need to act and aligning policy with researcher motivation Committee Process, [2003] (University Research Committee University Academic Board) 8

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R 9 http://www.mopp.qut.edu.au/F/F_01_03.jsp

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R 1.3.2 Policy Material which represents the total publicly available research and scholarly output of the University is to be located in the University's digital or " E print " repository, subject to the exclusions noted. In this way it contributes to a growing international corpus of refereed and other research literature available on open access, a process occurring in universities worldwide. 10

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R 1.3.2 Policy The following materials must be included in QUT ePrints: Refereed research articles and conference papers (authors accepted manuscript) at the post-peer review stage. 11

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R The following materials may be included in QUT ePrints: Refereed research articles and conference papers (submitted manuscript) with corrigenda added following peer review if necessary Un-refereed research literature & conference contributions, (the accepted draft) Books and book chapters Theses Creative works with a research component Descriptions of research data and datasets 12

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Materials to be commercialised, or which contain confidential material, or where the promulgation would infringe a legal commitment by the University and/or the author, will not be included in QUT ePrints. QUTs preference is to make materials available at the time of publication. Requests for embargos of more than twelve months must be referred to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support). 13

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Established in 2003 http://eprints.qut.edu.au Focus is currently on providing open access to the postprint versions of QUTs peer-reviewed scholarly publications 14

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Cumulative download statistics provide data on the total number of additional readers their works have reached; More readers = more potential citations. 15 Download statistics

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Download data is also provided for each paper. 16

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R 17 Repository records are highly ranked by Google This paper was first in a result set of 577,000 Repository records are highly ranked by Google This paper was first in a result set of 577,000

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R QUT ePrints 25,725 records (Sept 2010) 12, 629 open access full-text documents Plus 1,657 mediated access / embargoed full-text documents More than 2000 registered depositors 18 Repository Growth 2004-2010 2004200520062007200820092010 ePrints

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R The rise of funder mandates The rise of institution mandates MIT Harvard Imperial College Other universities in Australia Many more 19

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Prof. Ray Frost (chemistry) began uploading the accepted manuscript versions of his published articles to QUT ePrints in 2004; The open access copies have been downloaded a total of 202,754 times; His annual citation rate (as measured by Scopus) increased from 265 citations in 2004 to 1760 citations in 2008. (publication rate remained stable) 20 Citation rate Publication rate

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R 21 Wayde Martens (chemistry) has 113 open access publications in QUT ePrints, which have been downloaded a total of 54,270 times; His annual citation rate (as measured by Scopus) increased from 169 citations in 2006 to 600 citations in 2008. Citation rate

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R 22 Martin Skitmore (construction economics/surveying) has 183 open access publications in QUT ePrints, which have been downloaded a total of 202,276 times; His annual citation rate (as measured by Scopus) increased from 38 citations in 2004 to 100 citations in 2007.

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R 23 Luis Ferreira (transport planning) has 125 open access publications in QUT ePrints, which have been downloaded a total of 202,276 times; His annual citation rate (as measured by Scopus) increased from 38 citations in 2004 to 100 citations in 2007.

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R This QUT researcher (epidemiology and sexual health) has repository records for 48 of his 106 publications listed in Scopus - but only 11 have open access copies attached. The citation pattern for 2004 to 2008 is quite different. 24

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R These researchers compare the citation rates of open access articles v non-open access articles (in the same journals) using data from QUT, CERN, Southampton and Minho. Concluded that, where subscription barriers exist, the size of the OA advantages increases with the citeability (quality) of the article. 25 http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0361 In Press PLoS ONE In Press PLoS ONE

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R There is no doubt in my mind the ePrints will have improved things especially in developing countries such as Malaysia.... many more access my papers who wouldnt have thought of contacting me personally in the old days. While this may..... increase.... citations the most important thing... is that at least these people can find out more about what other people have done.... Professor Martin Skitmore, School of Urban Design 26

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Im not sure that I could say ePrints has increased my citations, but one thing that it has done is make students aware of what Im doing outside the classroom. This is important because both undergrad and postgrad students often dont understand what we do beside teach them. I had one student who was working at a senior level in Australia Post, and was reviewing proposals for the business to expand... he had obviously looked at my research via ePrints.... seen that I had examined New Zealand Posts expansion over the past ten years, and asked for a copy of my work..... This is only a small incident, but I cant help wondering how many other students take a few minutes to look at what we do outside the classroom.... Dr Belinda Luke, Senior Lecturer, Accountancy 27

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Just last week, the General Manager of Sustainable Development from an Australian rural industry called me based on reading one of my research papers.... in ePrints. He loved what he read which he thought was the most clear approach hed seen on quantifying social impact and we are now in discussion about how we can help them measure their industrys social impacts. Dr Evonne Miller, Senior Lecturer, Design 28

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R The Faculty of Education has found that ePrints has formed an important bridge to facilitate engagement of potential postgraduate students with the Faculty. Both the Research Pathways Coordinator for Undergraduate Courses (Dr Beryl Exley), and the Assistant Dean Research, report with certainty the growth in HDR numbers through the greater visibility of the facultys refereed research. 29

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Greater visibility Direct impact on metrics that matter New readerships in the developing world and other areas, e.g. rural Attracting HDR students 30

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Developing their own rewards systems for depositing Considering mandates in other areas of research policy, e.g. data Using ePrints to link to important research profile information about staff 31

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CRICOS No. 000213J a university for the world real R Organisational Renewal within the University Library eResearch partnership with ITS Data management roles Library and Information Management roles University Wide Inquiry management All of these have developed in the last 3 years. 32

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