{"product_id":"2940148879640","title":"Economic and Social Returns on Investment in Open Archiving Publicly Funded Research Outputs","description":"Public funding of scientific, technical and medical (STM) research is undertaken with the\u003cbr\u003eexpectation that the economic and social returns to taxpayers will exceed the amount of the\u003cbr\u003eresearch investment. Because discovery is a cumulative process, with new knowledge building\u003cbr\u003eon earlier findings, the dissemination of research findings is crucial to ensuring that the returns\u003cbr\u003eon the investment are realized.\u003cbr\u003eTraditionally, journals have been one of the primary channels for research dissemination. With\u003cbr\u003ethe emergence of the Internet, it became possible to expand the sharing of research findings and\u003cbr\u003ethus to better serve scientists as well as the “long tail” of other potential users – such as\u003cbr\u003eeducators and students, health clinicians and patients, businesses and the general public. It is\u003cbr\u003enow technically feasible to put knowledge to use far beyond the limited universe served by\u003cbr\u003etraditional toll-access or subscription journals. It is also possible for knowledge – research\u003cbr\u003earticles and other research outputs – to be used and integrated in new ways that further advance\u003cbr\u003epublic purposes.\u003cbr\u003eResponding to these opportunities, a growing number of public and private funders have\u003cbr\u003eimplemented policies mandating deposit of their funded research outputs in open online\u003cbr\u003earchives, making it freely available to anyone with Internet access. While there is ample\u003cbr\u003eanecdotal evidence of the benefits of such policies, the extent of the resulting leverage or its\u003cbr\u003erelationship to costs has rarely been measured. As the availability of cost-benefit measures and\u003cbr\u003equantitative data would inform public policymaking, this project seeks to identify metrics for\u003cbr\u003edemonstrating the return on investment in open access dissemination of publicly funded\u003cbr\u003eresearch. We outline one possible approach and identify areas in which further data collection is\u003cbr\u003eneeded. This is intended to define and scope the data collection requirements and further model\u003cbr\u003edevelopments necessary to produce a more robust estimate of the potential impacts of an\u003cbr\u003earchiving mandate for publicly funded research outputs, such as the proposed Federal Research\u003cbr\u003ePublic Access Act (FRPAA).\u003cbr\u003eThe following sections outline the model and data sources used for preliminary estimates. These\u003cbr\u003eestimates are based on the information available to us at the time of writing. They are released\u003cbr\u003ein conjunction with an online model, which enables others to explore their own preferred values\u003cbr\u003efor the various parameters. The model and this report can be found at\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111677182192,"sku":"2940148879640","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148879640_p0.jpg?v=1763709105","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148879640","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}