From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:49:02 +0100
I got gently reprimanded for my summary of the PEER End of Project
Conference as I was judged not to have fully explained the caveats
around the finding that journals included in the PEER project saw an
increase in usage at the publisher website. Now that all the
documentation is out can I ask a question about the main aims of the
project.
The description of the aims of the PEER project are given as:
> The PEER project, supported by the EC eContentplus programme
> (http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm),
> aimed to investigate 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.
As the project is now complete, what evidence has the PEER project
given us on these issues? As we have been told, the evidence on
reader access and author visibility is not to be generalised to beyond
the project. I can see no evidence of any harm to journal viability
as a result of archiving, but is this again limited to journals in the
PEER project?
Thanks
David
On 19 Jun 2012, at 22:51, LIBLICENSE wrote:
> From: Kim Beadle <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:42:02 +0200
>
> PEER Usage Research Reports and Final Project report available at
> http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/
>
> Following the recent successful End of Project Results Conference, the
> following final reports from PEER are now available for download from
> the PEER website:
>
> * D5.2 PEER Usage study - Descriptive statistics for the period
> March to August 2011
>
> * D5.3 PEER Usage study - Randomised controlled trial results
>
> * D9.13 Final report
>
> The usage research studies were undertaken by CIBER Research Ltd to
> measure the effect of exposing accepted manuscripts (following peer
> review) in repositories on downloads of the version of record at
> publisher platforms. The study is the largest of its kind to date,
> involving over 18,000 manuscripts.
>
> The PEER project, supported by the EC eContentplus programme
> (http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm),
> aimed to investigate 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.
>
> All reports from the project including 'End of Project Statements by
> the PEER Executive Partners - Reflections on Open Access Scenarios'
> are available to download from http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/.
>
> Presentations made during the End of Project Conference are available at:
> http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/
>
> For any enquiries relating to PEER, please contact Julia Wallace,
> Project Manager of PEER at [log in to unmask]
>
> About PEER:
>
> PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by
> the EC eContentplus programme
> (http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm),
> 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 runs from September 2008
> to May 2012.
>
> For further information on PEER, visit the website: http://www.peerproject.eu/
>
> PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical and
> Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen
> State and University Library, the Max Planck Society, INRIA, SURF
> Foundation and University of Bielefeld
>
> 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
>
> PEER repositories: eSciDoc.PubMan.PEER, Max Planck Digital Library
> (MPDL), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.
> (MPG); HAL, CNRS & Institut national de recherche en informatique et
> en automatique (Inria); Göttingen University/ Göttingen 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: e-depot, Koninklijke Bibliotheek
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