Jeffery Loo

December 17, 2009

jloo@berkeley.edu

On Promoting Open Access

at LBNL

Agenda

3discuss

promotion

2open access

models

1open access

principles

1Awareness of

open access principles

conceive

design

researchwrite

publish

publicize

funding

challengesjournal subscription fees

copyright ownership / controlreader access

return on public investment

Research life cycle challenges

(Treloar and Groenewegen, 2007)

Yikes!!!

Open access responds to these challenges

Publishing that is

Digital and online

Free access for readers *

Fewer copyright restrictions

not free for authors(Suber, 2007)

Motivations for OA participation

Career building

Gain “your place at the table”

Legal obligationNIH Public Access Policy

Advancing science and technology

Ethical reasons: research transparency and access

Self-i

ntere

st

Altruism

Advantages and concerns

Advantages

Greater visibility and citation rate

Digital

Free access

Promotes collaboration and exchange

Concerns

Publishing quality

Preservation and authenticity

Sustainability of author-pays model

Conflict of interest when author pays

(Information Platform Open Access, 2009)

2Open access

models

open access licensing

open access publishing

open access self-

archiving

institutional support of

open access

institutional policy and mandates

institutional collaboration advocacy

Spectrum of open access models

Less effortIndividual level

More effortCollaboration

Open access licensesan alternative to traditional copyright

Open access journalsfree to read, but not to produce

Springer Open Choice

Open access archives and repositories

Self-archiving

Where to archive:Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org

Permission to self-archive?Sherpa-Romeo databasehttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/index.html

arXiv.org

publishing system and repositoryno fees for UC members and LBNLUCPubS - print on demand

administrative and financial

Institutional support

Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity

Berkeley Research Impact Initiative

(BRII)

Funding for OA publishing by UC Berkeley members

Institutional policy and mandates

MIT – all facultiesHarvard – Faculty of Arts and SciencesStanford – School of Education

Institutional collaboration

SCOAP3

Collaboration to promote open access publications in high energy physics

Advocacy (for the law)

Nobel LaureatesOpen letter re:Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)

Spectrum of OA options

Manage your intellectual property•Retain copyright•Reserve some licensing rights in publications•Adopt fair copyright policies•Maximize the reach and impact of your work through

open access

Use alternative forms of publishing•Open access repositories•Open access journals

Support sustainable scholarly communication•Wield your influence with publishers•Promulgate society publishing best practices•Support publishing experiments and new business

models

Comply with public access mandates•NIH Public Access Policy

The University of California recommends

What’s on the horizon?

Open dataGenBankScience CommonsDataONE

Encouragement by:CIHRWellcome Trust

eScienceCyberinfrastructureHigh performance computing at LBNL

Open Science

transparency and collaborationopen notebook science

citizen science

(Lyon, 2009)

Other research communication

Pubcast on SciVeeObject Re-Use and Exchange (ORE) StandardHerbert Van de Sompel (LANL)

(Pepe et al., ?)

3Discussion

1. Are open access awareness and activities

important at LBNL?

2. If so, is there a need for promoting open access?

3. What would be the promotional message?

4. What activities could be developed to promote open

access at LBNL?

5. How do existing reporting structures at LBNL, particularly

Report Coordination and the DOE's Office of Scientific and

Technical Information (OSTI) programs, align with

open access initiatives?

Issues for reflectionOpen access awareness and activity• Key LBNL supporters of OA publishing• Administrative support for OA initiatives• Metrics for the awareness, activity, and

support of OA• What OA support do LBNL members

need?

Funding• How much is LBNL spending on OA

publishing fees?• Are the OA journal pricing models

prohibitive?• Are alternative models and sources of

funding necessary? Advocacy

Conclusion by haiku

Open access helps

Protect, preserve, publicize -

What can be done here?

ReferencesInformation Platform Open Access. 2009. Pros and Cons.

http://open-access.net/de_en/print/general_information/pros_and_cons_of_open_access/ Accessed: 2009/12/14

Lyon, L. 2009. Open science at web-scale: Optimising participation and predictive potential. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/opensciencerpt.aspx Accessed: 2009/12/14

Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California. 2009. Reshaping Scholarly Communication. http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/ Accessed: 2009/12/14

Pepe, A., Mayernik1, M., Borgman, C.L., and Van de Sompel, H. (?) From Artifacts to Aggregations: Modeling Scientific Life Cycles on the Semantic Web. http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0906/0906.2549.pdf Accessed: 2009/12/14

Suber, P. 2007. Open Access Overview. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm Accessed: 2009/12/14

Treloar A and Groenewegen D. 2007. ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects. Ariadne. 51. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue51/treloar-groenewegen/ Accessed: 2009/12/14