Presentation at the Internet Librarian Conference 2016

1. 100 % Open Access -
Call for Action
Patrick Danowski
Satish Viswanath: https://flic.kr/p/gPnyDr

2. What is Open Access?

3. 50%free available*
* source: 1science http://www.1science.com/oanumbr.html

4. Free ≠ Open

5. Free
Open

6. Open Access
Read
Share
Reuse
Derivates
Berlin Declaration on Open Access

7. Past
Journal Crisis

8. end 1990:
big increases
well above inflation

9. Present
We still struggle with
subscriptions

10. Average price increase:
~4%

11. Inflation 2015
Europe: 0.23 %
US: 0.70 %

12. 15% in Open Access Journals
Quelle: Schimmer, R., Geschuhn, K. K., & Vogler, A. (2015). Disrupting the subscription journals’
business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access. doi:10.17617/1.3.
+1% per year

13. 2100

14. Challenge:
Scientist still publish in
established brand journals
We have to buy them

15. Evaluation is often
based on top journals

16. Wikimedia Commons: PDLinda Tanner: https://flic.kr/p/p7BGAgUSFWSmidwest: https://flic.kr/p/piYRwg
Idea:
Transform the system

17. Question:
How do we achieve the
transformation?

18. Solution:
Developing
a common strategy

19. Austria is going forward

20. 16 recommendations
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.51799

21. Reorganise publishing
contracts
Photo by Gunnar Wrobel - http://flic.kr/p/qQTMa

22. Contract
2013-
2015
Access
for
~700
Journals
Contract
2016-
2018
Access
for
~2000
Journals
OA
Publishing
of
3600
articles
Read + Publish
SpringerCompact

23. Q1 2015 Q2 2015
OA
non OA
Austrian Publications at Springer
Q1
2015 2016
Q2
2015 2016
Data provided by Springer

24. Offsetting
Subscription Fee 2016 =
Subscription Fee 2015 + Increase 2016 - APCs paid 2015
2015
2016
100%
Austria IOP: Source Brigritte Kromp
103%
Subscription
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Subscription
A
P
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25. In Negotiation: Wiley
Deals with…

26. Outcome
• More OA articles
• Free license and usage rights

27. International cooperations
infrastructure
Photo by Nelson L. https://flic.kr/p/pNJQzo

28. AT: >130.000 €

29. 35.000.000€

30. 0.3%

31. Do Monitoring
Photo by: Pietro Zanarini https://flic.kr/p/9XU6Dk

32. Austria alone can’t
change the system

33. ICELAND
IRELAND
UNITED
KINGDOM
PORTUGAL
MADRID
FRANCE ITALY
BELGIUM
NETHERLANDS
GERMANY
DENMARK
FINNLAND
SWEDEN
ESTONIA
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
POLAND
ROMANIA
AUSTRIA
SLOVAKIA
CHECH REP
HUNGARY
CYPRUS
BULGARIA
GREECE
CROATIA
SLOVENIA
50% OA IN 2020
100% OA IN 2025
100% OA IN 2025
AMSTERDAM CALL FOR ACTION
100% OA FOR ALL PUBLICLY FUNDED
BY 2020
100% OA IN 2025
100% OA IN 2022
Photo by: Nicolas Raymond https://flic.kr/p/ceYdrh

34. OA 2020
• transform scholarly journals from subscription to
OA publishing
• support new and improved forms of OA
publishing.
• re-organize the underlying cash flows, to
establish transparency […]

35. Librarians can take
action …

36. Let us transform the
system

37. Join the movement!
http://www.oa2020.org
patrick.danowski@ist.ac.at