On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Sally Morris (ALPSP) wrote:
Re:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/16/free_access_research/
> Am I alone in failing completely to understand the basis for Stevan's
> calculation of the 1.5 bn? It seems to be (hypothetical (and as far as I
> can follow, unexplained) figure) x (hypothetical figure) x (hypothetical
> figure). Am I missing something?
>
> Perhaps someone could explain it to me nice and slow...
Dear Sally, happy to oblige:
(1) The UK spends £3.5 billion pounds annually on funding UK research:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4620.html
(2) The return on that investment is not the
number of UK articles published (130,000 per year)
http://auth.athensams.net/?ath_dspid=ISI.PHL&ath_returl=http://isiknowledge.com/
(3) The return on that investment is the number of UK
articles used, built-upon, cited: 761,600 citations per year:
http://auth.athensams.net/?ath_dspid=ISI.PHL&ath_returl=http://isiknowledge.com/
(4) 15% of articles are self-archived worldwide, 85% are not:
http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/graphes/EtudeImpact.htm
(5) Self-archived articles have 50%-250% more citations:
http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/graphes/EtudeImpact.htm
(6) Hence, for 85% of its research output (£2.98 billion pounds worth)
(7) the UK is losing 50-250% of the potential return on its investment:
£1.49 - £7.44 billion pounds worth
(8) To be conservative, I used only the lower end of this
estimate of the UK's annual loss in potential return
on it research investment: £1.5 billion pounds worth
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/29-guid.html
In other words, the fiction is not in the figures I have
cited on the RCUK investment in research and the empirical
evidence for the loss of potential return on that investment
owing to non-self-archiving.
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/28-guid.html
The fiction is all in Sally's own non-figures and non-evidence on
publishers' loss of potential revenues owing to self-archiving:
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/20-guid.html
Stevan Harnad
Received on Thu Sep 22 2005 - 12:38:05 BST