Open Access

Using deep log analysis, a technique pioneered by the UCL Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (UCL CIBER) and proven by its studies of ScienceDirect, Synergy and OhioLINK, UCL CIBER will now turn its attention to open access journals and subject repositories. Nucleic Acids Research made the transition to open access in 2005, and now another ten journals from the publisher Oxford University Press are to be studied as they move to open access.

Another commissioned study will evaluate the UK version of PubMedCentral (UKPMC), a British Library/Wellcome initiative, to be launched in January 2007. UKPMC will provide free access to an online digital archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences.