ArXiv和REF开放获取政策
ArXiv and the REF open access policy
摘要：
HEFCE在2014年后卓越研究框架中的开放获取政策规定，“作者的成果必须存放在机构或学科知识库中”。该政策没有对主题储存库作出定义：但有一个脚注指出：“建议将其产出存入主题储存库的个人确保其选择的储存库符合本政策规定的要求。历史最悠久的主题存储库（或任何类型的存储库）是1991年建立的arXiv.org。arXiv是一个开放获取的科学研究资源库，供全世界的作者和研究人员使用，并作为一个由科学家提供信息和指导的学术交流论坛。arXiv上的内容对最终用户是免费的，研究人员可以免费存放他们的内容。截至2018年4月，arXiv拥有超过1，377，000份电子版。在某些学科中，arXiv被认为是分享和发表研究成果的关键。HEFCE对存储库的要求在信息和审计要求中定义，其中列出了“接受日期”、“存放文件的版本”和“出版商禁运后立即可用的开放获取”，这些都是REF提交的一部分。然而，虽然arXiv中的许多记录都有多个版本的作品，但作者的接受版本没有被识别，也没有记录作品接受日期的字段。由于arXiv不捕捉这两个特定的信息点，它不符合技术要求，是一个兼容的主题库REF的目的。本文介绍的情况下，文章存放到arXiv，一般来说，符合HEFCE政策的要求。本文总结了联合监委会开展的一些工作，以确定是否有其他因素可以表明正式遵守HEFCE政策的可能性。
英文摘要：
HEFCE's Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework states "authors' outputs must have been deposited in an institutional or subject repository". There is no definition of a subject repository in the policy: however, there is a footnote stating: "Individuals depositing their outputs in a subject repository are advised to ensure that their chosen repository meets the requirements set out in this policy." The longest standing subject repository (or repository of any kind) is arXiv.org, established in 1991. arXiv is an open access repository of scientific research available to authors and researchers worldwide and acts as a scholarly communications forum informed and guided by scientists. Content held on arXiv is free to the end user and researchers can deposit their content freely. As of April 2018, arXiv held over 1,377,000 eprints. In some disciplines arXiv is considered essential to the sharing and publication of research. The HEFCE requirements on repositories are defined in the Information and Audit Requirements which lists the "Accepted date", the "Version of deposited file" and "available open access immediately after the publisher embargo" are expected as part of the REF submission. However, while many records in arXiv have multiple versions of work, the Author's Accepted Manuscript is not identified and there is no field to record the acceptance date of the work. Because arXiv does not capture these two specific information points it does not meet the technical requirements to be a compliant subject repository for the purposes of REF. This paper is presenting the case that articles deposited to arXiv are, in general, compliant with the requirements of the HEFCE policy. The paper summarises some work undertaken by Jisc to establish if there are other factors that can indicate the likelihood of formal compliance to the HEFCE policy.
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