Open Access and the Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Nigel - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Open Access and the Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA (The University of Manchester ) Vice-President Research, British Academy

Issues • individual scholars • international benchmark • journals and small learned societies • preferred output types • interface between academic and ‘ general ’ publishing

RAE 2008 outputs by publication type: Humanities Books Chapters Journal Articles Other English 39% 27% 31% 3% History 40% 22% 37% 1% French 37% 23% 39% 1% Philosophy 14% 20% 65% 1% Totals based on submissions drawn from the top 10 institutions for each field and with a GPA of 2.5 or better

RAE 2008 outputs by publication type: Social Sciences Books Chapters Journal Articles Other Sociology 22% 10% 64% 3% Law 18% 15% 65% 1% Politics 29% 9% 62% 0% Economics 1% 2% 89% 7% Totals based on submissions drawn from the top 10 institutions for each field and with a GPA of 2.5 or better

RAE 2008 outputs by publication type One institution made two separate submissions to the Anthropology Panel: Books Chapters Journal articles Other Biological 2% 4% 93% 0 Anthropology Social Anthropology 31% 29% 37% 3%

Patterns • different disciplines display different publication profiles • such profiles are relatively constant over time and institution • similar profiles also hold in Europe and the USA and define the benchmark for international research reputations

Monographs • tend to be single-authored • not captured by usual bibliometric methods • international gold standard in some fields • difficult boundary between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ general ’ lists for publishers