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What’s going wrong?
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$39,082
Robert Darnton, “The Library: Three Jeremiads,” New York Review of Books, December 23, 2010 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jeremiads
Average journal price in Health Sciences:
Chemistry
= $4,450
Physics
= $3,893
Agriculture
= $1,441
= $1,482
Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey"“The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal, April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013
Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey"“The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal, April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013
Graph 2 Monograph and Serial Costs
in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011*%
Cha
nge
Sinc
e 19
86
-25%
88%
200%
313%
425%
Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C. *Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward.
1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010
Serial Expenditures
(+402%)
Monograph Expenditures (+71%)
Monographs Purchased (10%)
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Publishing obscure academic journals is "that rare thing in the media industry: "“a license to print money.”
The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574
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Publishing is big business…
39%
40-50%
Date taken from on August 2nd https://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/
Is there a reason publishing should be this expensive?
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200
80% "of research is "publicly "funded
1 Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into shares, HSBC Global Research, February 11, 2013: https://www.research.hsbc.com/midas/Res/RDV?ao=20&key=RxArFbnG1P&n=360010.PDF
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Free, immediate online access "to scientific & scholarly articles"with full reuse rightsAs defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative
Two paths to Open Access
Self-archiving
Open Access"Journals
X 2,000
1. Publish (almost) anywhere, "deposit into an open-access repository
Source: www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/statistics.php?la=en&fIDnum=|&mode=simple
2. Publish in an open-access journal
X >9,700
2. Publish in an open-access journal
$ $or
Setting the default to Open
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1,000+ "Congressional lobbying visits "over the past 4.5 years
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i) confirms the importance of students having access to research journals and articles as part of their training;""ii) notes the high cost to institutions and individuals when accessing scholarly literature;""iii) proposes that this could hinder medical students in their development as ‘The Doctor as the Scientist’ as well as developing an evidence based clinical approach;""iv) welcomes and endorses the Right To Research Coalition’s statement on Open Access to research literature.
June 25, 2012
www.sparc.arl.org
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“…the degree of student initiative and engagement at UBC gives this issue a whole new impetus.”
But what can you do?
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200,000+ views"bit.ly/OAexplained
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Watch the Live Stream !More info available at: www.opencon2014.org
Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014
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So what else can you do? • Student? Have your organisation join the
R2RC"• Tell everyone you know"• Push for OA Policy at your institution"• Hold presentations & workshops on OA at
meeting or conferences"• Start/join a new project on Open Access"• Publish Open Access"• Use OpenAccessButton.org
In summary• Tracks and maps denials of access to research"• Builds support and engagement for the open
access movement"• Helps people get access to the research they
need"• Open Source www.github.com/oabutton"• Open Data - Exciting things coming soon
A new tool Making it more useful to researchers"
New and improved format"Revamping repositories and enabling access to research"
Partnering with the Wikipedia community and others"A tool for campaigning"
"21st October 2014, 6pm BST"
Livestreaming""
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What can I do? Collaborate
Advise Use the Button
Tell people about it act.openaccessbutton.org dev.openaccessbutton.org
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Anything else? Hit me up at [email protected] and @OA_button
