PASTEUR4OA Case Study: Institutional policy implementation at University College London (UCL), UK

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Summary:

[Summary] UCL (University College London1 ) sees itself as London’s top multidisciplinary research university, with an international reputation for the quality of its research and teaching. It holds itself to be the largest postgraduate institution in the UK: UCL has more than 35,000 students, including over 19,000 postgraduate students, and over 11,000 staff2 . The academic activities of UCL have a wide scope covering most established research fields. UCL researchers produce approximately 17,000 publications a year. In 2014 the total number of research outputs by UCL researchers included 12,000 articles, 1,000 theses, 780 proceedings papers, 570 conference papers, 550 chapters, 200 books, and 100 reports. There has been a sizeable increase in deposits in UCL Discovery, the institutional repository, in response to recent national policies. UCL Discovery contained 10,000 OA items in 2011 and 14,000 OA papers in 2013. OA content increased sharply to 22,500 papers by September 2015. UCL Discovery contains both full-text and metadata-only records. 42% of the records for outputs published thus far in 2015 are live with full text. 76% of these (or 32% of total outputs for 2015) are Open Access. The Research Councils UK (RCUK, 2013) and Research Excellence Framework (REF, 2014) Open Access policies have been key drivers for depositing in UCL Discovery and engaging with Open Access generally. Annual download totals have grown from under 200,000 per year in 2008 to over 1.8 million per year in 2014; the average number of downloads per item has more than quadrupled, from 146 in 2008 to 604 in 2014.

Link:

http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/Case%20Study_University%20College%20London_UK_Final.pdf

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oa.new oa.case oa.ir oa.green oa.pasteur4oa oa.u.college_london oa.mandates oa.uk oa.funders oa.hefce oa.ref oa.rcuk oa.compliance oa.deposits ru.sparc15 oa.policies oa.repositories

Date tagged:

11/24/2015, 08:41

Date published:

11/24/2015, 09:05