open access 101 for opencon 2014

Intro to Open Access

for OpenCon 2014

Nick Shockey (@R2RC)Director of Programs & Engagement, SPARC

Director, Right to Research Coalition

October 29, 2014

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Launched in Summer 2009

Built around the Student Statement

on the Right to Research: access to

research is a student right

International alliance of 75+ graduate &

undergraduate student organizations,

representing nearly 7 million students

in over 100 countries worldwide

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Average journal price in Chemistry:

Biology

= $2,520

Geography

= $1,308

Physics

= $3,870

= $4,215

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Source: Library Journal 2014 Periodicals Pricing Survey“Steps Down the Evolutionary Road | Periodicals Price Survey 2014,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal,

April 11, 2014: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/04/publishing/steps-down-the-evolutionary-road-periodicals-price-survey-2014/#_

Source: Library Journal 2014 Periodicals Pricing Survey“Steps Down the Evolutionary Road | Periodicals Price Survey 2014,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal,

April 11, 2014: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/04/publishing/steps-down-the-evolutionary-road-periodicals-price-survey-2014/#_

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Monograph and Serial Costs

in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011* Serial Expenditures(+402%)

Monograph Expenditures(+71%)

Monographs Purchased (10%)

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Publishing obscure academic journals is

that rare thing in the media industry:

“a licence to print money.”

Source: The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574

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Publishing is big business…

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Publishing is big business…

39%

Source: “Elsevier STM publishing profits rise to 39%”

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2014/03/elsevier-stm-publishing-profits-rise-to.html

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Is there a reason publishing should be

this expensive?

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http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200

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80% of research is

publicly funded

Source: “Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into

shares, HSBC Global Research,” February 11, 2013:

https://www.research.hsbc.com/midas/Res/RDV?ao=20&key=RxArFbnG1P&n=360010.PDF

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Does our publishing system

what we entrust to distribute the knowledge we work so hard to create

share our values?

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Free, immediate online access

to scientific & scholarly articles

with full reuse rights

Budapest Open Access Initiative

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Two paths to Open Access

Self-

archiving

Open Access

Journals

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1. Publish in an open-access journal

X >10,000

Source: Directory of Open Access Journals: www.doaj.org

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Source: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/

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Founded when most of the Editorial

Board of Machine Learning resigned

in protest


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in protest

Estimated cost per article: $6.50


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in protest


Publishes ~3,500 pages / year


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in protest



Ranked in 93rd percentile for Impact

Factor in its discipline


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in protest



Ranked in 93rd percentile for Impact

Factor in its discipline

bit.ly/anefficientjournal

X 2,000

2. Publish (most) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository

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Source: www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/statistics.php?la=en&fIDnum=|&mode=simple

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Source:

www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

<QUT citation advantage>

www.sparc.arl.orgSource: “OA Policy Development and Implementation at Queensland University of Technology,” Professor Tom Cochrane, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Delivered November 2012):http://www.berlin10.org/images/ws2cochrane.pdf

www.sparc.arl.orgSource: “OA Policy Development and Implementation at Queensland University of Technology,” Professor Tom Cochrane, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Delivered November 2012):

http://www.berlin10.org/images/ws2cochrane.pdf

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Swan, Alma (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date.http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268516/

http://whatshouldwecallgradschool.tumblr.com/post/75410649038/when-my-paper-gets-cited

Setting the Default to Open:

Institutional & Funder Policies

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Institutional Open Access Policies

177 Institutions in 34 countries

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Research Funder Open Access Policies

88 Research Funders in 18 countries

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1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits

over the past 4.5 years

From Establishment to Efficacy

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bit.ly/goodoa

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http://sparceurope.org/sparc-europe-response-to-the-finch-report/

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Different Types of Funder Policies

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/04/why-open-access-

advocates-arent-thrilled-with-the-does-plan-to-expand-public-access-to-its-research/

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American Society for Cell Biology

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

British Society for Cell Biology

eLife

European Astronomical Society

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNSA)

The Journal of Cell Biology

Wellcome Trust

+538 others…

More at www.ascb.org/dora

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“Lets make the Impact Factor tacky.”- Stefano Bertuzzi,

Executive Director, ASCB

Watch the discussion from the OA Week Launch Event:

live.worldbank.org/open-access-week-2014

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What can you

do to promote OA?

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Make yourwork openly

available on

The Internet

Source: Mike Taylor: The SV-POW! open-access decision tree

svpow.com/2013/05/11/the-sv-pow-open-access-decision-tree/

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Raise awareness about

Open Access & its benefits

for researchers

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bit.ly/OAexplained

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Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014


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“The Open Access policy will anchor the

University in its rightful place in the national,

regional and international arena and open up the

University for more global visibility”

Professor George A.O. Magoha

Vice-Chancellor

December 2012

“Working with students to demystify OA at the

University of Nairobi and also in institution

members of the Kenyan Consortium has

proved to be one of the best catalysts for

change. We have realized that academics

tend to listen to students in matters of ICTs as they see them as

agents of change in that they are more savvy, "curious and excellent

in networking” and open to new technologies.

To us at the University of Nairobi, students have been our trusted

partners and they have played a significant role in advancing the OA

movement. We are proud that in a span of a few months, the Vice-

Chancellor has signed the Berlin Declaration in October 2012 and

also put in place a Committee to draft the institutional OA policy in

August 2012.”

- Agatha Kabugu

Deputy University Librarianwww.righttoresearch.org

i) confirms the importance of students having access to research journals and articles as part of their training;

ii) notes the high cost to institutions and individuals when accessing scholarly literature;

iii) proposes that this could hinder medical students in their development as ‘The Doctor as the Scientist’ as well as developing an evidence based clinical approach;

iv) welcomes and endorses the Right To Research Coalition’s statement on Open Access to research literature.


June 25, 2012

Student-conceived,

student-led

projects

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@davidecarroll@Mcarthur_Joe

Source: http://hacks.rewiredstate.org/events/bmj/open-access-button


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Your projects!

Thank you!

[email protected]

@R2RC


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