Dean Lewis's Breakfast Talk from August 8, 2011.

1. Dean’s Breakfast
David Lewis
August 8, 2011

3. Library Update
• Budget
– $100K in base and $50K in cash for materials to
support new degree programs
– $20K in base to support continuing added hours
– New base to cover salary increases
– Saved $50K on electronic resources due to
consortial contracts and renegotiations of
existing contracts

4. Library Update
• Staffing
– Four staff took the early retirement incentive
– Four new staff
• Waheedah Bilal – Team Leader for Liberal Arts
• Heather Coates – Digital Libraries Team
• Summer Durant – Liberal Arts Team
• Katie Emery – Business Librarian

5. Library Update
• Programs
– “College Ready” information literacy project
– Data management
– Kiwanis International archive
– Review of e-books options and opportunities

6. Library Update
• Programs
– Digital Projects
• Indianapolis Recorder digitization complete
• History of Western Medicine in China
• History Working Papers Project
• Mau Mau interviews
• Ketterson/Nolan dark-eyed junco project

7. Library Update
• Space
– Completed 2120 technology lab
– Popular reading alcove
– Learning Spaces 3
– Wish List
• Readers Sanctuary
• Expanded Herron Artist Book Alcove

8. On My Mind
1. The Inevitability of Open Access
2. Transformation of Collections

9. The Inevitability of Open Access
Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online,
free of charge, and free of most copyright and
licensing restrictions. OA removes price
barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-
view fees) and permission barriers (most
copyright and licensing restrictions).
– Peter Suber
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

10. The Inevitability of Open Access
1993 – 20 OA journals publishing 247 articles
2000 – 741 OA journals publishing 35,519
articles
2005 – 2,837 OA journals publishing 90,720
articles
2009 – 4,767 OA journals publishing 191,851
articles
Mikael Laakso, Patrik Welling, Helena Bukvova, Linus Nyman, Bo-Christer Bjork, and Turid Hedlund, “The
Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009,” PLos ONE 6(6): 2011 e20961.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020961. Available at:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0020961

11. The Inevitability of Open Access
Figure 1: Straight-line Extrapolation of Direct Gold OA
Share of Scholarly Articles
30.0%
25.0%
20.0%
15.0%
10.0%
5.0%
0.0%
Laakso, et. al. Estimates
Staight-line Extrapolation Based on 2000-2009
Straight-line Extrapolation Based on 2005-2009

12. The Inevitability of Open Access
• Open Access is a disruptive innovation (Clayton
Christensen)
– New technology
– New business model
– Starts out as an inferior product
– Improves over time and its advantages make
it dominant
– Adoption follows an S-curve not a straight line

13. The Inevitability of Open Access
100%
% of Market using Innovation
0%
Time

14. The Inevitability of Open Access
Figure 2: Pace of Substitution of Direct Gold OA for
Subscription Journals (log scale)
100.0%
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
10.0%
1.0%
Laakso, et. al. Estimates
S-curve Extrapolation Based on 2000-2009
S-curve Extrapolation Based on 2005-2009

15. The Inevitability of Open Access
Figure 3: Pace of Substitution of Direct Gold OA for
Subscription Journals (normal scale)
100.0%
90.0%
80.0%
70.0%
60.0%
50.0%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Laakso, et. al. Estimates
S-curve Extrapolation Based on 2000-2009
S-curve Extrapolation Based on 2005-2009

16. The Inevitability of Open Access
• Good for libraries because scholarly journals
will not eat up our budget
Between 1975 and 2005 the average cost of journals in chemistry and
physics rose from $76.84 to $1,879.56. In the same period, the cost of a
gallon of unleaded regular gasoline rose from 55 cents to $1.82. If the
gallon of gas had increased in price at the same rate as chemistry and
physics journals over this period it would have reached $12.43 in 2005,
and would be over $14.50 today.

17. The Inevitability of Open Access
• Good for scholars because their work will be
available to all who can use it, and their
reputations will be enhanced
• Good for the public because scholarship
won’t be locked up in libraries

18. The Inevitability of Open Access
• Bad for established publishers – I don’t care
• Libraries not part of the delivery system
• Libraries should support OA on the
production side
– Advance in Social Work
– Indiana Libraries
– Umbrella

19. The Inevitability of Open Access
• Policy on author fees – who pays?
• Deposit mandate or not?

20. Transformation of Collections

21. Transformation of Collections
1. The digitization of content

22. Transformation of Collections
2. The development of print repositories

23. Opportunity Costs of Print Collections
$5.00 to $13.10
$28.77
$50.98 to $68.43
$141.89
Life cycle cost based on 3% discount rate. From Paul N. Courant and Matthew “Buzzy” Nielsen, “On the Cost of Keeping a Book,”
in The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship, CLIR, June 2010, available at:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub147abst.html

24. Transformation of Collections
3. The development of e-readers and print-on-
demand publishing

25. Transformation of Collections
4. The growth of open access
Figure 3: Pace of Substitution of Direct
Gold OA for Subscription Journals (normal
scale)
100.0%
90.0%
80.0%
70.0%
60.0%
50.0%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
Laakso, et. al. Estimates
S-curve Extrapolation Based on 2000-2009
S-curve Extrapolation Based on 2005-2009

26. Transformation of Collections
5. The challenges to establish academic
publishing organizations

27. Transformation of Collections
6. The growth new forms of scholarship based
on openness and social productivity

28. Openness (from Gideon Burton)
1. Open Access
2. Open Review
3. Open Dialogue
4. Open Process
5. Open Formats
6. Open Data
Gideon Burton, “Scholarly Communications must be Open,” August 25, 2009 at:
http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/08/scholarly-communications-must-transform-2.html

29. Openness (from Gideon Burton)
“It comes down to this: the more academia
wishes to enjoy the benefits of the digital
medium, the less it can hold on to restrictive
and closed practices in the
production, vetting, dissemination, and
archiving of information.”
Gideon Burton, “Scholarly Communications must be Open,” August 25, 2009 at:
http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/08/scholarly-communications-must-transform-2.html

32. Transformation of Collections
1. Deconstruct legacy print collections
2. Move from item-by-item book selection to
purchase-on-demand and subscriptions
3. Manage the transition to open access
journal collections

33. Transformation of Collections
5. Focus on curating unique items
6. Develop new mechanisms for funding
national infrastructure

34. Questions/Comments