Accessing and publishing scientific literature

is a major challenge for all scholarly institutions

Universities are struggling

Universities are spending a LOT for electronic serials

Source: IPEDS (INTEGRATED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION DATA SYSTEM)

~$10M/year

~$6M/year

~$7M/year

Source: Université de Montréal Library’s Web Site

Source: The STM report 4th edition, March 2015

The 10 largest publishers by number of journals

Oligopolistic Market

More and more expensive

Source: https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/01/

The Scholars’ Answer

Budapest open access initiative, December 2001

Source: Originally published in Archambault, E., et al. 2013. Proportion of Open Access Peer-Reviewed Papers at the European and World Levels—2004-2011. Produced by Science-Metrix for the European Commission.

1science’s originsthe tipping point

Challenges met by OA initiatives and

movement“Where can we find it all?”

“How can we publish?”“How can we assess quality?”

“Can we replace part of our subscriptions with OA content?

If so, how?”

We built 3 complementary products to address the cost and

accessibility issues

OA papers discovery

Custom-made reports to increase subscriptions’cost-effectiveness and identify institutionalstrengths

OA papers global discovery&virtual repository

A SOLUTION TO HELP EMBRACE OA MORE ACTIVELY

Our biggest challenges

Build a kick a** engineering team in Montreal’s saturated recruiting market

Data treatment and quality validation

Release a big data product within 12 months

1science “ELECTION” TECHNOLOGY

Why would I work for you ?

Simon Sinek’s TED talk. The golden circle.

Why?We believe institution’s access to knowledge should be easier and cheaper

By facilitating the flow of knowledge thanks to the open access movement and technology

How?

What?oaFindr, oaFigr and oaFoldr

Big DATA – STACK

oaFindr

Mathieu LampronVP Product

@MathieuLampron