Slides from a presentation given before faculty at Furman University in Greenville, SC, as part of the Libraries' "Scholarly Conversations" series, and in celebration of Open Access Week 2012.
Open Access: Blazing Trails through the Scholarly Communication Landscape
1. Open Access
Blazing Trails through the Scholarly
Communication Landscape
Molly Keener
Scholarly Communication Librarian
Wake Forest University
Furman University
October 23, 2012
3. Why do faculty and researchers publish?
impact grant funding
expectations
money
engagement
reputation
advancement
others…
4. Why develop new models?
• A reaction to the restricted flow of
information
• A reaction to traditional models of control
• Technology enables us to do things we
couldn’t before
• Research doesn’t fit into traditional models
5. Commonalities
• Generally enabled by technology
• Works both inside and outside of
traditional models
• Supported by a variety of business
models
10. What do we mean by open?
Open to contribution & participation
Open & free to access
Open to use & reuse with few or no restrictions
Open to indexing & machine readable
11. Open movements
• Open access
–Public access
• Open data
• Open science
• Open/digital humanities
• Open education
• Open books
• Open peer review…
12. Open access literature is
digital, online, free of
charge, and free of most
copyright and licensing
restrictions.
- Peter Suber
13. Two (and a half) Roads to Open Access
1) Open Access
Publishing
2) Author archiving
2.5) Hybrid
14. Gratis vs. Libre
• Gratis: You can read it for free. Anything
else, you better ask permission.
• Libre: With credit given, OK to text-mine, re-
catalog, mirror for
preservation, quote, remix, whatever.
• Most OA is gratis. You get to “libre” via
Creative Commons licensing, usually.
(text from Dorothea Salo)
15. Open Access Publishing
• Publication that is free & open for anyone to access on
internet
• Journals or books!
– 8299 OA journals according to Directory of Open Access
Journals (as of Oct. 22, 2012)
• Journals across all disciplines
• Share common features with toll access journals
• Supported by variety of models
• Institution / funder supported OR author-supported
• Generally allow authors to retain copyright and/or
license under Creative Commons
16.
17. Issues & Questions
• Has taken time for impact factors &
reputation to build
• Business models still emerging
• Author pays model has better traction in the
STM community
18. Open Archiving/Repositories
• Literature published through traditional
channels that is made openly available
through deposit in a repository or placing on
web site
• Institutional, departmental, or discipline
based repository
• Supported by a range of business models
• Range of publisher policies on deposit
19.
20. Issues & Questions
• Sustainability sometimes an issue
• Participation of faculty (particularly for institutional)
– Discipline based repositories often rooted in cultures used
to sharing
• Often include a range of material including student
work, grey literature, theses and dissertations, etc.
• For published literature, what can be deposited
confusing (post print, pre print, published version?)
• Copyright issues murky and (often) frustrating
21. Hybrid models
Publisher Price Notes
Elsevier Sponsored Article $3,000 Some journals
Oxford Open $3,000 Some journals; lower price if author
from a developing country
Springer Open Choice $3,000 All journals
Wiley OnlineOpen $3,000 Some journals; fees vary
American Chemical $1,000 – 3,000 Lowest price if institution subscribes
Society AuthorChoice & have personal membership
Plant Physiology $1,500 / $500 / OA free for members of ASPB;
Free Discount if non-member but
institution subscribes
22. Issues & Questions
• Mixed business model – subscriptions and author
pays on an article by article basis – uncomfortable for
many
• Relatively low adoption (generally around 1-2%)
• What impact on subscription prices?
• Many libraries with funds for faculty to publish in OA
journals will not fund these articles
23. Public Access
Mandates
Public should have
ready and
easy access
to taxpayer funded
research
Many legislative efforts
in US to halt and
expand this.
24. Institutional Open Access Policies
Harvard
(Faculty of Arts and Sciences, College of Law)
MIT
Kansas
Trinity
Oberlin
Duke
And others!
http://roarmap.eprints.org
27. Tensions
• Modern Language Association
• The Cost of Knowledge
• Harvard faculty statement on journal
sustainability
• UK’s Finch Report
• American Historical Association
• Licensing debate
• Ongoing FUD
28. But we aren’t a research university…
• Access for students…some of whom are our
future faculty
• Publish OA when possible
• Retain rights to share your work
• Use Creative Commons licenses
• Talk to society members and leaders
• Talk to editors and editorial boards
29. Resources
• Open Access
Directory
• DOAJ: Directory of
Open Access Journals
• OASPA: Open Access
Scholarly Publisher
Association
• OANow
• Sherpa/RoMEO
30. Attribution
Slide 3: “BookCase” http://www.flickr.com/photos/markhillary/
Slide 11: “Hope” http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystalina/6327766/
Slide 13: “Two roads were there – 2” http://www.flickr.com/photos/1000/187984223/
Slide 14: Text used from Dorothea Salo’s “Open Sesame” Presentation at
http://www.slideshare.net/cavlec/open-sesame-and-other-open-movements
Slide 23: Public http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronw79/5575652125/
Slide 24: “Harvard Widener Library” http://www.flickr.com/photos/mak506/2771080083/
Slide 31: “Curiosity” http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliodelprado/225161313/
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Here’s a brief overview of what we’re going to cover today
Technology is keyMultiple models, and not completely moving away from traditional models…just shifting a bit
One model we’re trying to move away from is the “closed access” model
Stephen Joyce, a nephew of the author and representative of the estate, is notorious for pursuing lawsuits against scholars who so much as quote from Joyce’s works, even in situations that are clearly fair use. Some of James Joyce’s works came into the public domain in the US as of January 1, 2012, but not all.
Cory Doctorow releases all of his books under a Creative Commons license, allowing for adaptation and remixing. People release translations of his work, fan videos, and alternate covers. All without asking.
So when we talk about making research publications more open, what do we mean?
Open access, the focus of today, is just part of a broader open movement impacting many areas of higher education and scholarly research
This is the seminal definition of Open Access
Regardless of ‘road’ to OA, can be either gratis or libre…libre hard to do with archiving
OA publishing got its start with journals, and is still dominated by journals, but includes books tooOne key feature is that in the majority of cases, the author(s) retain copyright
PLoS Biology – earlyBMC Genetics – early & first profitable publisherEcosphere – society exampleSAGE Open – multidisciplinary social sciences & humanities; answer to PLoS ONE
Impact factors aren’t everything…Jason Priem will be with you all next month to talk about AltMetrics, which are different ways to measure and assess impact, which has largely grown from the shift to greater openness in researchNot all OA journals use the Article Processing Charge (APC) model, although that’s a strong misconception
Growth with faculty collections is slow at best at many institutions, essentially stagnant at more than we likely care to admitFuture growth will likely come in “non-traditional” IR areasPre-print vs. post-print: explain the differences
Just a cross-section; most publishers now offer
Discuss COPE funds, difference in Wake’s OA fundDiscuss memberships in BMC, PLoS, etc.
NIH Mandate – All research funded by National Institutes for Health must be made freely available in PubMedCentral 12 months after publication; Legislative efforts to restrict NIH mandate (HR 801: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act) – 2009/2010Legislative efforts to expand it (Federal Research Public Access Act S.1373 and Federal Research Public Access Act HR5037) 2009/2010White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/03/08/public-access-policy-updateCOMPETE act
Update, talk about the process, lessons learned; also note use of word policy and not mandate.Slow going, both in working toward adoption and in implementingCOAPI (Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions) for support
As of February 2012, there were 21 North American institutions with fundsFunding models vary widelyWhy WFU isn’t COPE (Compact for Open-access Publishing Equity)
University of Tennessee’s Newfound Press: free online, print option; associated with library – also mention UMich’sMpublishing & digitalculturebooksOpen Humanities Press: books and journals; free online, print option for booksAnvil Academic Press: publisher for non-traditional scholarship; keep an eye on this one!Flat World Knowledge: OA textbooks; electronic free, print option