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The Current Landscape of Open Access
Heather JosephExecutive Director, SPARC
ALA Midwinter MeetingSeattle, WA
January 26, 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.
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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
Any Progress Towards This?
Infrastructure: Open Access Journals
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More than 8,600 OA Journals
What Does this Mean for Researchers and Scholars?
• Broader reach/wider audience for their work• Access to more, license to do more• New ways to see who is using their work, and
how they are using it
A Positive New Scenario……
…Bringing With it New Opportunities, New Challenges
We Rely on Filters.
Scholars need help in figuring out what is “good.”
Evaluators need help in figuring out what is “good.”
We Need Better Filters.
Journal Impact Factors.
Impact Factors are a Journal Measure.
More Granular Measures for Articles and People Needed.
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.
As With Impact Factors, Alt Metrics and ALMS have
shortcomings.
Not Yet Fully Understood.
Still Early Days. But Important Days.
Infrastructure:Open Access Repositories
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Open Access Repositories
FEDERATION
Open Data
OER
Policy Framework.
Open Access Policies
Copyright
Open Licenses