David Ball 'Open Access: Where do we stand?'
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David Ball
David Ball Consulting
February 2015
What’s it all mean: some definitions
Toll
Gratis and Libre
Green and Gold
Growth of OA
Current research on policies and mandates
Scholarly monographs
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Apply for grant funding: government, public bodies, charities…
Research
Submit article on findings for peer review
Copyright (generally) made over to publisher
Dissemination by subscription journals
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Reader-side, as opposed to author-side, payment
Payment to access; no other rights
Subscription to a journal – individual or library
Big Deals - collective
Purchase copy of an article
Purchase/ subscribe to monograph
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By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002
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Peter Suber
OA literature is “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most [some] copyright and licensing restrictions”
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Context: intellectual property law offers limited “fair dealing” or “fair use” exemptions (has been limited by licences)
Gratis OA is free of charge to access but subject to the limits of fair dealing; removes toll barriers but not permission barriers
Libre OA is both free of charge and free of at least some legal and licensing restrictions;removes toll barriers and at least some permission barriers. Creative Commons.
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Green OA is delivered through self-archiving authors deposit manuscripts/pre-prints of articles in
repositories institutional repositories aim to capture all the articles
produced by a particular institution disciplinary repositories aim to capture all the articles in a
particular discipline
Gold OA is delivered through journals these may be completely OA or hybrid, where some
articles are OA and others toll access
Some Gold OA monographs Both Green and Gold OA are gratis. Green OA
generally is only gratis; Gold OA may be libre
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Relies on a recent but well established infrastructure of repositories
Easy and cheap
Does not incur the overheads of peer-review
Deposited articles may be, most often have been, peer-reviewed for publication in TA journals
Is compatible with subscription journal publishing: embargoes
Is hospitable to many other types of document, notably research datasets
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Offers articles, in both OA and hybrid journals, that are peer-reviewed for publication
Incurs the same costs for the editorial and peer review process as TA journal publishing
Author-side payment of article processing costs (APCs)
Is always immediate, while Green OA is often subject to time embargoes imposed by subscription journal publishers
Provides access to the published version of an article
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Gold Currently small percentage of total, but growing
Number of articles doubles every 2-3 years (European Commission)?
25% of articles within 10 years?
Journal growth in developing countries
Green Repositories – 25m items? 38m items?
Only 15.5% of articles are deposited (PASTEUR4OA)
Google Scholar
Resource discovery systems
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Wellcome Trust, NIH 2005
Finch Report 2012
Support for publication in open access or hybrid journals, funded by APCs
Licence to cover health and R&D sectors, walk-in access in public libraries
Research Councils UK
Green: allows embargoes 6-12 months
Funding for APCs
REF 2020 – deposit in repositories required
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Open Access is mandatory for peer-reviewed publications
The policy is a ‘Green’ OA mandate (repositories) Publish as normal in subscription-based journals Place author’s copy in OA repository
For ‘Gold’ OA, permits payments from grants for OA journal publication fees
Says nothing about OA for monographs, but there may be some attention to this issue as time goes on
The policy is very definite about Open Research Data, announcing an Open Data pilot for the H2020 programme
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PASTEUR4OA (FP7)
ROARMAP updated
Regression analyses
Success criteria:
Must (i.e. mandated) deposit
Deposit cannot be waived
Link deposit with research evaluation
Deposit immediately on acceptance
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Vehicle for disseminating research findings in humanities and social sciences
Print runs of 200?
Low/no royalties
Low/no research grants
Prime candidate for OA?
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Monographs are available in 3 editions: free to read (PDF only)
digital (downloadable, with functionality to annotate etc.)
printed editions (PoD)
Revenue is derived from: monograph processing charges (MPCs)
added value services to libraries and individuals
print-on-demand
Problems include: lack of visibility of free edition; source of MPCs
Example: Open Book Publishers, Ubiquity Press
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Peter Suber, Open Access, MIT Press, 2012 (OA)
PASTEUR4OA (http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/) FOSTER
(https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/) UKeiG Training: Open Access: How it will
change your (professional) life (24 March, CILIP HQ)
David Ball [email protected]
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A product of the latest ICT revolution
Impossible to predict impact
A disruptive technology?
Fast and fundamental change
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Costs: Editorial boards – staffed by academics for nothing?
Peer review – done by academics for nothing?
Authors/institutions donate their IPR
Production and distribution
Marketing
Managing subscriptions, policing rights etc.
Met by: Page and plate charges?
Subscriptions - UK HE journal subscription costs £170m a year
Advertising
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Setting up and maintaining institutional and discipline repositories
Depositing items
Swan - annual cost of institutional repositories £26k-£210k (including capital investment)?
Cost per article deposited £6-£15?
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Costs:
As for Toll Access
But distribution and rights management costs minimal?
Met by:
Article processing charges(APCs) - £5-£2500? Met by (STM) funders?
Subsidies from learned bodies/institutions?
Advertising
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350 years of toll access (subscriptions) Embedded in institutional systems, procedures and
budgets
Infrastructure of intermediaries
Increasingly through (efficient but expensive) Big Deals
How do we change gear to APCs? Granularity (single article versus Big Deal)
Internal and external systems
Infrastructure
Competitive market in APCs?
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Gold
Currently small percentage of total, but growing
Number of articles doubles every 2-3 years?
25% of articles within 10 years?
Disruptive technology - 60% within 10 years?
Green
Repositories – 25m items? 38m items?
Google Scholar
Resource discovery systems
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Citation advantage Difficult to measure
Clear indication of some advantage (Swan)
Publication of associated data-sets (now required by funders) is advantageous
High impact in medicine
Quality APC-funded OA at 70% of impact factor of toll access
OA and TA journals founded since 2002 have similar impact
Variance across disciplines
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Gold standard of research – yet problems - MMR
OA provides free access to research, not access to articles free of peer review
No longer needed to ration scarce space
New models Light initial touch
Debate by scholarly community
Dynamic content
Publication of data, overlay journals, social media…
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Registration: to provide a time stamp to establish paternity
Certification or validation: to provide a stamp of quality, generally through peer review
Awareness: distribution/access
Archiving: preservation
Traditional publishing (print or electronic) subsumes the first 3 functions in publication
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Of the four functions OA is only about access, secondarily about timing
OA is neutral/agnostic about peer review, copyright, etc.
Perfectly hospitable to the practices of traditional journal publishing
But it does enable new approaches and practices in research
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