<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from the PEER research project, via the Am-Sci OA Forum. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">News release – PEER Publishing and the Ecology of European
Research<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">6 October 2011<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">PEER Behavioural Research: Final Report on authors and users
vis-a-vis journals and repositories now available at: <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><a href="http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/</span></a></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The PEER Behavioural Research Team from <u></u><u></u>Loughborough<u></u> <u></u>University<u></u><u></u>
(Department of Information Science & LISU) has completed the behavioural
research commissioned by PEER. The research which consisted of two phases adopted
a mixed methods approach consisting of surveys, focus groups and an
interdisciplinary workshop and was carried out between April 2009 and August
2011.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The specific aim of the behavioural research was to understand the
extent to which authors and users are aware of Open Access (OA), the different
ways of achieving it, and the (de)motivating factors that influence its uptake.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The report integrates findings from the first phase of the research
with the more in depth.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">focus of phase two of the research, which drilled down into some of
the key findings of the phase 1 results.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Key conclusions:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">*Over the period of Phases 1 and 2 of the behavioural research the
increase in the number of researchers who reported placing a version of their
journal article(s) into an Open Access Repository was negligible.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">*Researchers who associated Open Access with 'self-archiving' <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">were in the minority. Open Access is more likely to be associated
with 'self-archiving' (Green Road) by researchers in the Physical sciences
& mathematics and the Social sciences, humanities & arts, than those in
the Life sciences and Medical sciences who are more likely to associate Open
Access with Open Access Journals (Gold Road).<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">*There is anecdotal evidence that some researchers consider making
journal articles accessible via Open Access to be beyond their remit.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">*Authors tend to be favourable to Open Access and receptive to the
benefits of self-archiving in terms of greater readership and wider
dissemination of their research, with the caveat that self-archiving does not
compromise the pivotal role of the published journal article.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">*Readers have concerns about the authority of article content and
the extent to which it can be cited when the version they have accessed is not
the final published version. These concerns are more prevalent where the
purpose of reading is to produce a published journal article, and are perceived
as less of an issue for other types of reading purpose.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">*Academic researchers have a conservative set of attitudes,
perceptions and behaviours towards the scholarly communication system and do
not desire fundamental changes in the way research is currently disseminated
and published.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">*Open Access Repositories are perceived by researchers as
complementary to, rather than replacing, current forums for disseminating and
publishing research.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The full report is available from: <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><a href="http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/</span></a></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">PEER Behavioural Research Team<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Dr Jenny Fry, Professor Charles Oppenheim, Dr Stephen Probets
Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Claire Creaser,
Helen Greenwood, Valerie Spezi, Sonya White LISU, Loughborough University.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">For enquiries relating to Behavioural Research or other research
areas within PEER, please contact Chris Armbruster: <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><a href="mailto:chris.armbruster@yahoo.com" target="_blank">chris.armbruster@yahoo.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">For other enquiries relating to PEER, please e-mail: <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><a href="mailto:peer@stm-assoc.org" target="_blank">peer@stm-assoc.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">About PEER:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported
by the EC eContentplus programme, is investigating the effects of the
large-scale, systematic depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts
(so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access,
author visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology of
European research. The project is a collaboration between publishers,
repositories and researchers and will last from September 2008 to May 2012.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">For further information on PEER, visit the website: <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><a href="http://www.peerproject.eu/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.peerproject.eu/</span></a></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical
and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Goettingen State
and University Library, the Max Planck Society, INRIA, SURF Foundation and
University of Bielefeld.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">STM publishers participating in PEER: BMJ Publishing Group;
Cambridge University Press; EDP Sciences; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; Nature Publishing
Group; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage Publications; Springer;
Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">PEER repositories: eSciDoc.PubMan.PEER, Max Planck Digital Library
(MPDL), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e. V. (MPG);
HAL, CNRS & Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique (INRIA); Goettingen State and University Library (UGOE); SSOAR -
Social Sciences Open Access repository (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the
Social Sciences); TARA - Trinity College Dublin (TCD); University Library of
Debrecen (ULD) Long term preservation archive: <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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Koninklijke Bibliotheek.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">______________________________<br>
Barbara Bayer-Schur M.A.<br>
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen<br>
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen<br>
PEER - Publishing and the Ecology of European Research<br>
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Tel. <a href="tel:%2B49%20551%2039%205242" value="+49551395242" target="_blank">+49 551 39 5242</a><br>
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</span></font><u></u></span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color:navy"><a href="http://www.peerproject.eu" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">www.peerproject.eu</span></font></a></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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