Open Access: Maximizing the Impact of Research and

Scholarship

Heather JosephExecutive Director, SPARC

February 21, 2013

Our Mission:

Expand the distribution of the results of research and scholarship in a way that

leverages digital networked technology, reduces financial pressures on libraries,

and creates a more open system of scholarly communication.

What’s Happening In Scientific Communication and What Does it

Mean for You?

1. New technology.

The Internet.

New Venues to Share Work.

2. Digital Deluge.

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We need to enable computers to help us keep up.

3. Rising Costs, Shrinking Budgets

Price Barriers

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Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20050828210650/libraries.mit.edu/about/scholarly/expensive-titles.html

Library budgets journal prices

“Scientific, technical, medical, legal and business journals – an $8.9 billion market - grew at 3%

in 2010…”

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What Does this Mean for You?

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What Do You Do?

It Isn’t Inter-Library Loan…

I ask the author for a copy.

I get it from a colleague at an institution with a subscription.

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“I’ve never had a witness confess to a crime during a hearing before…”

- Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO)

We’re Used to Workarounds.

Need to Optimize the System for Scholars and the Academy.

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“By open access, we mean its free availability on the public internet,

permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print,

search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them

for any other lawful purpose…”

- The Budapest Open Access Initiative – February 14, 2002

Open Access = Access + Reuse

So How do We Do This?

Infrastructure: Open Access Journals

Copyright

Open Licenses

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More than 8,600 OA Journals

Infrastructure:Open Access Repositories

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Open Access Repositories

FEDERATION

Open Data

What Does this Mean for Researchers and Scholars?

• Broader reach/wider audience for your work• Access to more, license to do more• New ways to see who is using your work, and

how they are using it

A (Largely) Positive New Scenario

The Digital Environment Lets Us Collect Information on More than

Just Citations.

Article Level Metrics

Choose the Aspect of Impact you Want to Explore.

From Mentions In the Media…

Tweets and Re-Tweets…

No Single Indicator Tells Whole Story.

Opportunities to Paint a Fuller Picture by Aggregating

Information.

Not Yet Fully Understood.

Still Early Days. But Important Days.

Disruptive Technologies, Opportunities for Meaningful

Change.

Thank you!

Heather Dalterio Josephheather@arl.org (202) 296-2296http://www.arl.org/sparchttp://www.taxpayeraccess.org