OPEN FORUM: SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

Barbara Epstein

Outgoing Chair, Ad Hoc Committee for Advocating Scholarly Communication

Incoming Chair, Scholarly Communications Committee

Medical Library Association Annual Meeting

May 22, 2012

Outline

• Sunset, Sunrise • Ad Hoc Committee to Permanent Committee

• Committee Activities During 2011-2012

• Public Policy Updates

• Useful Scholarly Communication Web Sites/Blogs

• News from the Collection Development Section (Katherine Chew, Section Liaison)

• Your Questions, Comments

Ad Hoc Committee on Advocating Scholarly Communication• May 2008-May 2012

• Members• Karen Albert (Chair 2008-2011)• Michelle Volesko Brewer• Linda G. Katz• Julie A. Schneider• Barbara Epstein (Chair 2011-2012)

• MLA Staff Liaison: Mary Langman

• NLM Liaison: David Gillikin

• MLA Board Liaison• Cynthia L. Henderson 2009-2012• Mark Funk (2008-09)

• Gov’t Relations Committee Liaison: Donna Timm

• Technical Services Section Liaison: Robert A. Pisciotta (2008-10)

• AAHSL Liaison• Karen Butter (2008-09) • Jean P Shipman (2009-10 )• Rajia Tobia (2011-12)

Accomplishments 2008-2011

• MLA Member Surveys • Education needs• NIH Public Access Mandate & library

subscriptions

• Sponsored open forum at annual meetings

• Contributed MLA News articles

• Provided input into policy statements & federal RFIs (with GRC)

• Developed educational tool kit re NIH Public Access Policy

http://www.mlanet.org/resources/publish/index.html

Activities 2011-2012

• Responded to OMB RFI on “reduction of cost & burden associated w/ federal cost principles for education institutions” (with AAHSL)• Advocated that author fees for publishing in OA

journals are eligible for reimbursement from direct grant funding

• Responded to OSTP RFI on “long term preservation of and public access to the results of federally funded research” (with AAHSL)• Advocated continuation & expansion of NIH Public

Access Policy w/ embargo period of 6 months or less

• Explored programming for 2013 Annual Meeting (with Collection Development section & AAHSL)

New Scholarly Communication Cte Charge

• Focus on broad issues of concern to health sciences libraries

• Provide leadership about trends & issues• Develop programs & special initiatives• Develop educational opportunities

• Monitor/comment on government activities & policies

• Develop resources about publishing

• Develop strategies for communicating and collaborating

Schol-Comm Members, 2012-2013

• Sandra Bandy

• Marcy Brown

• Donna Gibson

• Tierney Lyons

• Drew Wright

• Hannah Kwasik (Member & Tech Services Section Liaison)

• Katherine Chew (Collection Dev Section Liaison)

• Christine Frank (AAHSL Schol-Comm Cte Liaison)

• David Gillikin (NLM Liaison)

• Priscilla Stephenson (Hospital Libraries Section Liaison)

• Donna Timm (Gov’t Relations Cte Liaison)

• Mary Langman (MLA Staff Liaison)

• Rikke Ogawa (MLA Board Liaison)

Committee Goals 2012-2013

• Develop mechanisms for updating ourselves and the MLA members on evolving issues

• Develop program for Boston 2013 Annual Meeting• Open Forum

• Review Ad Hoc Cte final report & develop action plan

• Update the MLA Scholarly Communications page

Public Policy Update:

• The Good:• NIH Public Access• FRPAA• Open Access Publishing

• The Bad• Prices

• And the Ugly• Research Works Act

• Late Breaking News….

NIH Public Access

• 2.4 million articles now in PubMed Central• 250,000 NIH-funded articles July 2008-Dec 2011• Publishers deposit peer-reviewed manuscripts, final published

versions and even full content• 75% author compliance rate

• 700,000 users access PMC every weekday• More than 1.5 million articles retrieved

• Users are from• Universities (25%)• Companies (17%)• General public (40%)

• No evident harm to publishers• More journals • Higher subscription prices• Medical journal market forecasts have increased

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/public_access_policy_implications_2012.pdf

Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) of 2012

• Agencies w/ annual extramural research budgets of >$100 million

• Public online access to manuscripts from funded research within 6 months of publication in a peer-reviewed journal• Stronger than NIH Public Access Policy (now 12

months)

• Introduced on Feb 9, 2012• Companion bills in Senate (S. 2096) and House (H.R.

4004)• Bipartisan sponsorship• 4 Senate co-sponsors (2 Republicans, 2 Democrats)• 29 House co-sponsors (12 Republicans, 17 Democrats)

FRPAA Advocacy

• MLA• Sent thank-you letters to lead sponsors in House and

Senate• Disseminated information to membership in MLA

Focus • FRPAA Fact Sheet on MLANet

http://www.mlanet.org/resources/publish/index.html• Joint Legislative TF urged sponsorship in congressional

visits

• What you can do• Check the current list of FRPAA sponsors at

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Notes_on_the_Federal_Research_Public_Access_Act

• Write to your House representative and Senator • Thank them for sponsorship, OR• Urge them to sign on as a co-sponsor

Open Access Publishing

• Spreading acceptance• World Bank • Institute of Education Sciences• Wellcome Trust

• 23% of PubMed articles link to a freely available article

• University mandates • ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repositories

Mandatory Archiving Policies • http://roarmap.eprints.org/

• Directory of Open Access Repositories • http://www.opendoar.org/

The Bad: Rising Prices

• The “Terrible Twins*”: stagnant budgets & steady price increases• Rate of increase is escalating• Average price of online heath sciences journals• $1,505 (2010)• $1,593 (2011) – 6% annual increase • $1,693 (2012) – 6% annual increase

*http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/04/funding/coping-with-the-terrible-twins-periodicals-price-survey-2012

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The Ugly: Research Works Act

• Introduced Dec 2011: No public access to government funded research• Overturn NIH Public Access Policy

• Strong support from Ass’n of American Publishers

• Stronger opposition• Library associations • Open access advocates• Scholarly societies• Petition to boycott Elsevier

• Elsevier withdraws support on Feb 27, 2012• Co-sponsors drop their support in the House

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions

Keeping Current**

•5 great Web sites• 5 great blogs• 3 great sites for Podcasts • 5 great Twitter feeds

** with thanks to Andrea Ketchum, Reference Librarian, University of Pittsburgh Health

Sciences Library System

Scholarly CommunicationUniversity Libraries, University of Connecticut http://lib.uconn.edu/scholarlycommunication/

Research and Publishing SupportBecker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis https://becker.wustl.edu/classes-consulting/specialized-expertise/research-publishing-support/open-access

Scholarly Publishing @ MIT Libraries, MIT

http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/scholarly/

Scholarly Communications, Arizona State University http://libguides.asu.edu/content.php?pid=29995&sid=219476

Scholarly CommunicationHealth Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburghhttp://hsls.libguides.com/content.php?pid=317995

Keeping Current**

•5 great Web sites• 5 great blogs• 3 great sites for Podcasts • 5 great Twitter feeds

** with thanks to Andrea Ketchum, Reference Librarian, University of Pittsburgh Health

Sciences Library System

SPARC Open Access Newsletter – Peter Suberhttp://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan/

The Scholarly Kitchen from The Society for Scholarly Publishing http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/

Scholarly Communications@Duke - Kevin Smith, J.D. http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/

The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics – Heather Morrisonhttp://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/

Scholarly Communications Update – The Blog for the WUSM Scholarly Communications Initiative – Cathy Sarli at Becker Medical Library http://beckerinfo.net/scp/

Keeping Current**

• 5 great Web sites• 5 great blogs• 3 great sites for Podcasts • 5 great Twitter feeds

** with thanks to Andrea Ketchum, Reference Librarian, University of Pittsburgh Health

Sciences Library System

Scholarly Publishing @ MIT Libraries

http://bit.ly/IYyHwJ

Columbia University Libraries – Past Events

http://bit.ly/Ix7Ucz

Podcasts & Videos 1

Video About OA from the OAD

http://bit.ly/dgxtTT

SPARC Vimeo channel

http://bit.ly/c9O31H

Podcasts & Videos 2

Keeping Current**

•5 great Web sites• 5 great blogs• 3 great sites for Podcasts • 5 great Twitter feeds

** with thanks to Andrea Ketchum, Reference Librarian, University of Pittsburgh Health

Sciences Library System

OATP uses social tagging to capture new OA developments comprehensively and in real time.

Copyright Program Librarian, the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Scholarly Communications Specialist, Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis

Director, Harvard Open Access Project, Berkman Center for Internet & Society; SPARC and more

Postdoc at U. of British Columbia (data-sharing; altmetrics)

Topics From the Collection Development Section Listserv

• Vanishing content•Mutating formats• Squeeze play

Your Feedback, Questions, Suggestions

Web sites1. Scholarly Communication, University Libraries, University of Connecticut

http://lib.uconn.edu/scholarlycommunication/

2. Research and Publishing Support, Becker Medical Library,

Washington University in St. Louis

https://becker.wustl.edu/classes-consulting/specialized-expertise/researc

h-publishing-support/open-access

3. Scholarly Publishing @ MIT Libraries, MIT

http://libraries.mit.edu/sites/scholarly/

4. Scholarly Communications, Arizona State University

http://libguides.asu.edu/content.php?pid=29995&sid=219476

5. Scholarly Communication, Health Sciences Library System,

University of Pittsburgh

http://hsls.libguides.com/content.php?pid=317995

Blogs/Newsletters

1. The Scholarly Kitchen - The Society for Scholarly Publishing http

://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/

2. SPARC Open Access Newsletter – Peter Suber

http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan/

3. Scholarly Communications@Duke - Kevin Smith, J.D. at Duke University

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/

4. The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics – Heather Morrison http

://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/

5. Scholarly Communications Update – The Blog for the WUSM Scholarly

Communications Initiative – Cathy Sarli at Becker Medical Library

http://beckerinfo.net/scp/

Podcasts & Videos

1. Columbia University Libraries – Past Events

http://bit.ly/Ix7Ucz

2. Scholarly Publishing @ MIT Libraries

http://bit.ly/IYyHwJ

3. Video About OA (from the OAD) http://bit.ly/dgxtTT