the case for open access ismte
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Presentation for the ISMTE Annual European Conference, 18 October 2011, Oxford.TRANSCRIPT
The Case for Open Access
Caroline SuttonCo-founder, Co-Action PublishingPresident, OASPA
www.oaspa.org
Co-Action Publishing is an international open access scholarly publisher, with a growing portfolio of peer-reviewed scholarly journals spanning different scientific disciplines. The company is registered as a limited liability company in Sweden, and is wholly-owned by the three founding partners.
www.co-action.net
Established October 2008 by:
BioMed Central Co-Action Publishing Copernicus Publications Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Medical Internet Research (Gunther
Solomon) Medical Education Online (David Solomon) Public Library of Science (PLoS) SAGE Publications SPARC Europe Utrecht University Library (Igitur)
Background
OA publishers lacked a voice in public debates about scholarly communications and Open Access
Open Access had become an established part of the publishing landscape; it was time to address practical issues
Need to develop uniform standards and best practices Need to bring together the Open Access publishing
community Need to share information and work collectively OASPA represents both professional publishing
organizations as well as scholar publishers and welcomes other organizations whose work supports OA publishing.
OASPA Mission
To support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.
To accomplish this mission, the association will: Exchange information Set standards Advance models Advocate for OA publishing Educate Promote innovation
OPEN ACCESS = Free Access + Re-use
Creative Commons Licenses
Most common:
Attribution 3.0
(CCBY or CCAL) Attribution-
Noncommercial 3.0
(CCBY-NC)
04/12/2023
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Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to Co-Action Publishing. However, authors are required to transfer copyrights associated with commercial use to the Publisher. Revenues from commercial sales are used to keep down the publication fees. Moreover, a major portion of the profits generated from commercial sales is placed in a fund to cover publication fees for researchers from developing nations and, in some cases, for young researchers.
Achieving Open Access through the self archiving of peer-reviewed journal articles.
Different publishers have different policies on deposition of articles.
List and policies available at SHERPA-RoMEO (www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo)
The ”Green Road”
The changing landscape of arguments
The financial argument“Serials Crisis”
The financial argument“Tax payer access”
The funder argument“Maximize investment in research”
30 Europe10 United States & Canada 7 Internationally
The new arguments:Open Access as key to innovation and economic growth
2010 Communication from the Commission on the Innovation Union :“In 2012, the Commission will propose a European Research Area Framework and supporting measures [...]. They will notably seek to ensure through a common approach to [...] dissemination, transfer and use of research results, including through open access to publications and data from publicly funded research”. The Commission “[...]will promote open access to the results of publicly funded research. It will aim to make open access to publications the general principle for projects funded by the EU research Framework Programmes [...]”.COM (2010) 546.
The arguments you don’t hear
Chris Anderson – Free: The Future of a Radical Price
The changing landscape beyond academic publishing: ”living in a free world”
”A new kind of business is emerging – one that opens its doors to the world, innovates with everyone (especially customers), shares resources that were previously guarded, harnesses the power of mass collaboration, and behaves not as a multinational but as something new: a truly global firm.”
Don Tascott & Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics. How mass collaboration changes everything
The changing landscape beyond academic publishing: ”Wikinomics”
The next stage for OA publishing
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”A social network diagram”, Screenshot taken by Darwin Peacock, accessed through Wikimedia; distributed under a CCL 3.0.
Understanding knowledge as a network (vs. property)
Knowledge as an infrastructure
