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The Internet and Open Access in Archaeology
Doug Rocks-Macqueen
In the Beginning… 2011
• Open Access is what?
• Open Source my paper?
• Why share?
• All the people that “matter” already have access.
• Open Access = anti-academic freedom, pay only model, neo-liberal/communist plot, etc. etc. etc. etc.
How do you let people know you about the greatness that is Open
Access?
Rise of the bots
• 11,777 OA Archaeology articles before stopping- CAA, Ubiquity, & ADS
• Automated posting
– 2.5 years on Twitter at one every two hours
– Tumblr, Facebook too
– 4,900+ followers on Twitter, 750+ on Facebook, 2300+ on Tumblr
BUT how many of them are real?
– 4% fake
– 37% inactive
– 59% Good
• 100-200 clicks a day
• Most researcher only read by editor and reviewers
The Open Access Cupcake!
Brain Child of L-P Archaeology
Well that was quick….
• ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies
– Institutional Mandates (207)
– Sub-Institutional Mandates (44)
– Multi-Institutional Mandates (9)
– Funder Mandates (89)
– Thesis Mandates (110)
Well that was quick….
• 2003 – 1
• 2012- 225
• European Research Council
• US Government
• Gold Open Access outlier- UK
Pressure Cooker
• Number of Journals Growing Exponentially
• Size of journals growing
• Library budgets Flat
• Digital products move towards monopolies
Results in:
• Bundles, mergers, etc.
• Sophie’s Choose- do you cut 1 journal or 20 journals?
The Maney Expansion
• 2012- 16ish Archaeology Journals
• Today- 29? (not counting Costume, etc.)
• “(Maney) are trying to 'corner' the archaeology journal market”
• What happens when there are only 1-2 ‘traditional’ archaeology publishers?
At current rates in 6-12 years there will be no more independent publishers– Just Traditional Commercial and Open
Access
So What Happens Next?
• Hope that larger organisations fix the problem?
• Do we aim for ultra low APCs?
– Current levels are Elsevier, Springer, etc. are unsustainable, not applicable, and plain stupid.
• Create our own system?
What Would Our System Look Like?
• The goal- anyone can use it…
• Replace OJS?
• Wordpress based system?
– Easy to use
– Wide support and updating
• Crossref, LOCKSS, Doi’s etc.
• OCA for legacy
Only technical solutions, not social. What happens to our societies? Do we care? Does publishing change?
Open Access Archaeology- http://www.openaccessarchaeology.org/