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Million-page science collection to be digitised


The not-for-profit technology provider Jisc and publisher Wiley are to digitise a one-million-page collection on the history of science. The collection will largely comprise


content from the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), now the British Science Association (BSA). Universities in the UK will also be able to put their collections forward for inclusion in this digital archive, provided that the content complements the BAAS archive and meets practical and logistic considerations. The collaboration offers universities a chance to influence what material is digitised by a commercial publisher. Paola Marchionni, head of digital


resources for teaching, learning and research at Jisc, said: ‘Digitising specialist archives is a costly enterprise and, over the last few years we have been exploring new business models to support digitisation of collections. ‘This deal is a first for Jisc and Wiley, and was struck in response to our members’ concern over the cost of content and the desire to democratise access to all institutions, no matter their size or income.


We are hoping this project will pave the way for similar alliances with other publishers and collections.’ Through the partnership, the resulting digital collection will be free to all UK universities and colleges and, once the licences to the content expire, will be made available openly and globally password- free. Scholars and teachers will be able to freely access materials dating roughly between 1800 to the 1970s via the Wiley Digital Archives platform. The history of science collection will be available from March next year, giving access to primary source material that might otherwise have been hard to access, and difficult to use. Jay Flynn, chief product officer at


Wiley Research, said: ‘We are thrilled to be working so collaboratively with Jisc, the British Science Association (BSA) and leading UK universities to add a new collection to the Wiley Digital Archives programme. Wiley Digital Archives allows researchers to peer into the science of the past to create scholarship for the future. This partnership will help the BSA and UK universities to unlock their content for a larger research audience through our global platform and expand


OA potential remains untapped – report


Researchers want to improve access to research but remain largely unaware of initiatives and services established to increase open access (OA). A survey of 2,755 Taylor &


Francis authors, released for Open Access Week, reveals little consensus when it comes to permitting reuse of published research – and that researchers should be taking advantage more of the open access options available. Some 66 per cent didn’t


recognise any of 11 different initiatives presented, including the 2002 Budapest Open Access Declaration (with the highest level of researchers, 12 per cent, aware of this) and the Open Access Button (with the lowest level of awareness, at just 2 per cent). Just 5 per cent of


researchers are aware of www.researchinformation.info | @researchinfo


Plan S – an initiative with potential to significantly affect publishing options for researchers around the world. Plan S had been a headline story in the scholarly communications industry, and been the focus of many political discussions around its aim of making all scholarly publications OA by 2025. The survey asked


researchers about publishing habits. Gold OA, making the final version of a research article open, has seen increased uptake (42 per cent used this option in the last 12 months). However just 26 per cent have made use of green OA, archiving an earlier version of a manuscript in a repository. Additionally, although


researchers support the principle of greater access to their work (88 per cent) and


only a minority (41 per cent) agree that their research is already available to those who need it, there is less consensus on the extent to which others should be able to reuse that published research – the other pillar of the OA movement. Some authors support maximum reusability of their work, but there appears reticence in others. CC BY, the Creative Commons Attribution License that gives others complete freedom to build on and distribute original work, is researchers’ least preferred publishing license (29 per cent). While the highest number of first preferences go to CC BY-NC-ND (26 per cent), which doesn’t permit derivatives or commercial reuse. The option with the highest combined first and


second preferences is the Exclusive License to Publish, giving the journal exclusive right to publish the article and handle reuse requests. Caroline Sutton, director of open research at Taylor & Francis, said: ‘This new survey demonstrates that researchers see value in anyone being able to access their published research. However, it’s sobering to note that so many of the routes to enable this access, which scholarly communication professionals are very familiar with, are still largely unknown among the larger body of researchers. ‘There is clearly much more that publishers, funders, librarians, and open access advocates need to do to raise awareness among researchers of the OA options that are available to them.’


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access into educational settings at the same time. Wiley Digital Archive’s built-in text and data mining tools will increase discoverability, while adding context to this powerful content.’ Katherine Mathieson, chief executive at


BSA, said: ‘The association is delighted to have the opportunity to share its extensive archives of the history of science with researchers across the world. Currently these papers are only available to scholars who can travel to the archives looked after by the Bodleian Library at Oxford. ‘This transformative partnership will


extend access to many more researchers. These papers show that from the very beginning, scientists wanted to share their knowledge with everyone. We continue to realise this vision, through our work with communities and schools which supports our vision of a world where science is seen as a fundamental part of society.’


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