1. First results of the SOAP Project
(What 40’000 scientists think of you)
Suenje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Bettina Goerner, Robert Darby, Jenni Hyppoelae,
Peter Igo-Kemenes, Deborah Kahn, Simon Lambert, Anja Lengenfelder,
Chris Leonard, Salvatore Mele, Panayiota Polydoratou, David Ross,
Sergio Ruiz-Perez, Ralf Schimmer, Mark Swaisland and Wim van der Stelt
BMC, CERN, MPDL, SAGE, Springer, STFC
Presented by
Salvatore Mele/CERN, SOAP project co-ordinator
COASP | 2nd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing | Prague | 22-24 August 2010
project-soap.eu
2. Outline
• About the project
• Highlights from a study of OA journals today
• Results from a large-scale survey
• How can you help…
(…this afternoon at 17:15!)
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3. Outline
• About the project
• Highlights from a study of OA journals today
• Results from a large-scale survey
• How can you help…
(…this afternoon at 17:15!)
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4. SOAP
Study of Open Access Publishing
• Funded by the European Commission
• Framework Program 7 – Science and Society
• Scheduled to run from March 2009 to February 2011
• Compare and contrast supply/demand for OA publishing
• Publishers, Libraries, Funding Agencies
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5. Outline
• About the project
• Highlights from a study of OA journals today
• Results from a large-scale survey
• How can you help…
(…this afternoon at 17:15!)
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6. A study of OA journals today
• Assess the supply of OA publishing outlets today
• Start from the DOAJ
• Collect additional information
– SCOPUS, ISI-JCR, EZB, SCImago, ask friends and colleagues
– Trawl through thousands of web pages
• Answer key questions
– How many articles, journals, publishers?
– In which discipline, with which license?
– Where does the money come from?
– …
• Some highlights in the following pages
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7. How many?
• English language journals
• 90% of publishers <100 articles/year and 1/3 of total
• 10% of publishers publish 2/3 of the total
• 14 “large publishers”:
- 40K articles/year in 616 journals, 30% of the total
- 6 commercial, 6 no-profit, 2 N/A
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9. About what?
• 2/3 of journals in STM; 1/3 in SSH
• 3/4 of articles in STM; 1/4 in SSH
• “Large publisher” almost exclusively STM
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10. Licensing practices
• 1/2 of “Large” publishers use Creative Commons
• 82% CC-by, 18% CC-by-nc
• 72% of journals, 71% of articles
• “Other” publishers
• 73% only with available information
• 21% use some CC version
• 10% state “authors retains copyright”
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11. Presence of income sources
NB – No information on income amount
APC Subscription
Journals with that income source Membership
Advertisement
Sponsorship
Hard copies
Large publishers Other publishers
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12. Outline
• About the project
• Highlights from a study of OA journals today
• Results from a large-scale survey
• How can you help…
(…this afternoon at 17:15!)
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13. The SOAP survey
• 23 Questions
• Available at http://surveymonkey.com/soap_survey_g
• Live since 3 months
• Dissemination through:
- SOAP partners and contacts
- Library mailing lists, SPARC-Europe, LIBER
- Many, many, many publishers
- OASPA !
You were wonderful! Thanks!
• Estimate dissemination to >1.5 million people
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24. Preliminary results
Who ?
Beliefs
Actions
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25. Would OA journals be
beneficial for your field?
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32. Would OA journals be
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33. Would OA journals be
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34. Would OA journals be
beneficial for your field?
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35. Would OA journals be
beneficial for your field?
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37. Would OA journals be
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38. Would OA journals be
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39. Beliefs about OA – positive
1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree
Would OA journal be beneficial? Yes Negative
Publicly-funded research should be
made available to be read and used 1.5 2.2
without access barrier
Researchers should retain the rights to
their published work and allow it to be 2.0 2.2
used by others
Articles that are available by OA are
likely to be read and cited more often 2.1 3.0
than those not OA
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40. Beliefs about OA – neutral
1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree
Would OA journal be beneficial? Yes Negative
Open Access publishing is more cost-
effective than subscriptions and will 2.4 3.1
benefit public investment in research
If authors pay OA publication fees there
will be less money available for 2.6 2.3
research
OA unfairly penalises research-intensive
institutions with large publication
3.0 2.6
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for publication
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41. Beliefs about OA – negative
1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree
Would OA journal be beneficial? Yes Negative
Open Access publishing leads to an
increase in the publication of poor 3.6 2.7
quality research
Open Access publishing undermines the
3.8 2.9
system of peer review
It is not beneficial for the general public
to have access to published scientific 4.0 3.4
and medical articles
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42. Preliminary results
Who ?
Beliefs
Actions
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43. How many OA articles have you
published in the last 5 years?
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45. Was there a reason
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48. How was this fee covered?
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49. How was this fee covered?
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51. How was this fee covered?
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53. How was this fee covered?
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54. How was this fee covered?
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55. How was this fee covered?
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56. How was this fee covered?
My institution paid
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57. How was this fee covered?
I paid myself
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58. How easy was it to obtain funds?
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61. How easy was it to obtain funds?
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62. Conclusions
• Strive to provide facts on which to base decisions
(EC, publishers, libraries, funding agencies)
• Just scratched the surface of the survey so far
• More questions on drivers/barriers in publishing
• 17’000 scientists left e-mail for further contact
• Need to understand what to ask more…
…to the data
…to the volunteers
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63. Outline
• About the project
• Highlights from a study of OA journals today
• Results from a large-scale survey
• How can you help…
(…this afternoon at 17:15!)
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