latest developments in open access
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Latest developments in Open Access
Matthew CockerillManaging Director, BioMed Central
1st December 2009Online Information, Olympia, London
About BioMed Central
Largest publisher of peer-reviewed open access research journals
Launched first open access journal in 2000 Acquired by Springer in October 2008 Now publishes 205 OA titles >60,000 peer-reviewed OA articles published All research articles may be shared openly under
Creative Commons license Costs covered by 'article processing charge’ (APC)
Growth of Open Access publishing at BioMed Central
Number of manuscripts submitted to BioMed Central
journals each calendar quarter
New journals from BioMed Central
Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology Alzheimer's Research & Therapy Automated Experimentation Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome Experimental & Translational Stroke Medicine Genome Medicine Gut Pathogens Head & Neck Oncology Journal of Angiogenesis Research Journal of Cheminformatics Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy &
Technology
New journals from BioMed Central
Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology Alzheimer's Research & Therapy Automated Experimentation Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome Experimental & Translational Stroke Medicine Genome Medicine Gut Pathogens Head & Neck Oncology Journal of Angiogenesis Research Journal of Cheminformatics Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy &
Technology
New national-level BioMed Central memberhips
BioMed Central journals with official Thomson Reuters/ISI Impact Factors
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Society Journals
Publishing consultants working with societies are increasingly being asked about open access
BioMed Central is approached about– new OA society journals– transfer of existing society journals to the OA model
Increasing society publishing consultants’ awareness and knowledge of open access – 1–day workshop in London UK – June 2009– 1–day workshop in New York – December 2009
Example of increased visibility and impact for a society journal under OA
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
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The broader OA picture
The disruptive effect of the web Michael Nielsen - Guest
speaker at STM annual conference in Frankfurt
Thought-provoking exploration of the parallels between the turmoil in newspapers and in STM publishing
The altered economics of the web present a huge challenge for traditional business models
Several new Open Access journals from NPG
From Nature Publishing Group’s 2009 letter to customers:
The increase in funder support for open access and enhancements in publishing technology enable NPG to undertake an exciting new publishing endeavour. In April 2010 we will introduce Nature Communications, an online-only peer-reviewed journal offering rapid publication for high-quality research across the biological, chemical and physical sciences. We plan to introduce several open access journals in our academic and society journal program in 2010, the first of which will be Cell Death & Disease in January.
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
OASPA
Goals of OASPA
Represents Open Access publishers Agree common definition of Open Access Enforce high standards of editorial and
business practice amongst members Set guidelines and best practices for
publishers and institutions in payment of OA publication fees
Actvities of OASPA in 2009 Successfully encouraged several
prospective members to use standard OA licenses to enhance reusability
Ran “Meet the OA Publisher” Live Q&A Webinar during Open Access week in October (archived at OASPA website)
Hosted inaugural COASP conference, in Lund, Sweden
Held first Board elections
OASPA conference
OASPA Board members
Caroline Sutton (Co-Action Publishing) Chair Saskia Franken (Utrecht University Library/Igitur) Secretariat David Prosser (SPARC Europe) Treasurer Bo-Christer Björk (ITcon) Matthew Cockerill (BioMed Central) Gunther Eysenbach (Journal of Medical Internet Research) Mark Patterson (Public Library of Science) Paul Peters (Hindawi Publishing Corporation) David Solomon (Medical Education Online)
11 Professional Publishing Organizations 13 Scientist/Scholar Publishers 3 Strategic Partners 24 Associate Member Organizations Announcing 2 new high profile members:
OASPA Membership
“The BMJ has been an active supporter of open access from the outset. […] We are delighted to be joining OASPA.”
Fiona Godlee, Editor, British Medical Journal
“Oxford Journals is commited to fair and sustainable pricing models and we see open access as one means of achieving this. We support OASPA’s desire to share experiences and best practice for open access publishing, so we’re pleased to be able to join its community.”Martin Richardson, Managing Director, OUP (Journals Division)
Transitioning funding from subscriptions to OA
“We would like to see a commitment from publishers to show the uptake of their open access option and to adjust their subscription rates to reflect increases in income from open access fees. Some publishers, for example Oxford University Press, have already done this and we would like to see all publishers behave the same way.”
Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust
Reduced subscription fees on hybrid journals to reflect OA uptake
Similarly for OUP’s Bioinformatics
Institutional online subscription price: 2005 - GBP 1008 2010 - GBP 976
OA uptake has more than offset OUP’s subscription price increments over this time period
Building a level playing field:Central funds to cover Open
Access publication costs
OA Compact
Signatories of the OA Compact commit to:"the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and published in fee-based open-access journals and for which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds."
Founding signatories of the OA Compact
Berkeley Cornell Harvard Dartmouth MIT
All but MIT have already put Open Access funds in place
Institutional Open Access policies and repositories
Official open access policies
Mandatory OA-deposit policies from research funders led the way:E.g. NIH, HHMI, UK PubMed Central funder group
Mandatory OA-deposit policies from academic institutions have followed:E.g. Harvard, MIT, UCL
Funder OA policies
US taxpayer funded research – the debate continues
Institutional OA policies
Surge in number of institutional Open Access mandates
UK institutional OA mandates
University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Leicester Napier University Roehampton University Queen Margaret University
University of Salford University of Southampton University of Stirling University College London (UCL) University of Westminster
A substantial fraction of academic institutions now have OA repositories
Filling those OA repositories is proving to be a challenge
Open Access journals provide a source of content that can be immediately shared
BioMed Central is automating feeds to repositories using the SWORD protocol
OA journals are complementary to Institutional OA repositories
Institutional Institutional RepositoryRepository
(DSpace/Eprints (DSpace/Eprints etc.etc.))
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Manual deposit to IR
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Automated deposit to IR via SWORD
Manuscript
SWORD Import
SWORD Export
Published articles
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Published article
And finally…
More new developments in Open Access
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