-- Andrew McCallum mccallum_at_cs.umass.edu Associate Professor www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum Comp Sci Dept, UMass Amherst 413-545-1323 (w) On Dec 9, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Stevan Harnad wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Peter Suber wrote: > >> If the metrics have a stronger OA connection, can you say something >> short (by email or on the blog) that I could quote for readers who >> aren't clued in, esp. readers outside the UK? > > Dear Peter, > > Sure (and I'll blog this too, hyperlinked): > > (1) In the UK (Research Assessment Exercise, RAE) and Australia > (Research > Quality Framework, RQF) all researchers and institutions are > evaluated for > "top-sliced" funding, over and above competitive research proposals. > > (2) Everywhere in the world, researchers and research institutions > have > research performance evaluations, on which careers/salaries, > research funding > and institutional/departmental ratings depend. > > (3) There is now a natural synergy growing between OA self-archiving, > Institutional Repositories (IRs), OA self-archiving mandates, and the > online "metrics" toward which both the RAE/RQF and research > evaluation in > general are moving. > > (4) Each institution's IR is the natural place from which to derive > and > display research performance indicators: publication counts, citation > counts, download counts, and many new metrics, rich and diverse ones, > that will be mined from the OA corpus, making research evaluation much > more open, sensitive to diversity, adapted to each discipline, > predictive, > and equitable. > > (5) OA Self-Archiving not only allows performance indicators (metrics) > to be collected and displayed, and new metrics to be developed, but OA > also enhances metrics (research impact), both competitively (OA vs. > NOA) > and absolutely (Quality Advantage: OA benefits the best work the most, > and Early Advantage), as well as making possible the data-mining of > the > OA corpus for research purposes. (Research Evaluation, Research > Navigation, and Research Data-Mining are also very closely related.) > > (6) This powerful and promising synergy between Open Research and Open > Metrics is hence also a strong incentive for institutional and funder > OA mandates, which will in turn hasten 100% OA: Their connection needs > to be made clear, and the message needs to be spread to researchers, > their institutions, and their funders. > > Best wishes, > > Stevan > > PS Needless to say, closed, internal, non-displayed metrics are also > feasible, where appropriate. >Received on Sun Dec 10 2006 - 18:22:41 GMT
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