The international open access landscape

Carrie Calder Head of Marketing,

BioMed Central

Scope• The open access landscape and its

growth

• Open access and impact

• Managing the cost of OA publishing

• The future…

Where is open access in 2010?

• There are over 5600 open access journals in the DOAJ

• Over 1000 open access journals are indexed by ISI

• Open access to research is now mandated in over 100

institutions and by 45 funders.

• Submissions to OA journals grew by over 44% between

2008 and 2009

• Open access firmly part of the mainstream..

Developments within OA landscape

Developments within OA landscape

• Mandates and policies

• Journals

• Submissions

Open access policies

30/06/2008 31/03/2009 03/31/2010

Departmental 4 6 21

Funder 23 35 44

Institutional 20 31 87

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Data courtesy of www.openscholarship.org

Policy highlights• 46 funder policies including RCUK,

Wellcome Trust, NIH Public Access Policy

• Institutional policies - 3 times as many policies than a year ago - Compact for open-access publishing equity (COPE)- Number of policies within Africa?....

Information on all policies available at www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

Call to action….

Open access journals

3/31/2006 3/31/2007 3/31/2008 31/03/2009 03/31/2010

No. of journals 2158 2618 3302 3999 4863

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Increase in journals

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Total journals 129 143 169 178 195 205

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Growth in BioMed Central journal portfo-lio

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BioMed Central submissions

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Submissions 6909 10806 15118 17206 21062 27128 35000

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Open access and impact

Open access and impact

• Myths of OA

• Challenges to prove quality

• Impact Factors hard for new journals

BioMed Central journals with Impact Factors

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Journals with IFs 0 1 3 6 10 15 25 27 42 57 77

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Official Impact Factors

Open access having impact

• Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date.- 27 of 31 show open access having a positive citation advantage

- Where positive advantage - increase in citations varying from -5 to 600%

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/

Article visibility

Increasing impact for a society journal

The cost of open access publishing

How do the finances work?• Article-processing charge (APC)

Covers– Editorial: handling of manuscripts– Technical: development, maintenance and operation of

online journal system– Production: Formatting and markup of articles, inclusion in

indexing services– Marketing: Making sure readers and authors know about

the journal– Customer service: Responding to authors/readers

• Web technology is used to keep costs low

Open access publication charges

• BioMed Central APC comparison page lists publishers’ open access charges

• BioMed Central’s charges (~£995 / $1620) are at the lower end

• For comparison, traditional publishers often charge $3000 or more for open access option, in addition to subscription charges

http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors /apccomparison

Article-processing charges - who pays?

• Authors may pay out of grant funds• Some funders provide a central fund for

open access publishing costs• Institutions may cover costs centrally,

on behalf of their authors, via BioMed Central Institutional Membership

• Some titles cover costs themselves

Waiver fund

Institutional Membership

• Supporter MembershipInstitution pays a flat fee, authors pay a discounted Article Processing Charge

• Prepay MembershipInstitution covers cost of publication centrally, at a discounted rate

• Shared Support MembershipInstitution and author share the cost the APC equally

BioMed Central Members

Future of open access…

Open access article share

Open access publishing,then and now…

2000 2010

And more…

Conclusions

• Open access journals are proving to offer impact

• Variety of payment routes for APCs being explored

• Open access movement going from strength to

strength

• So much scope for more growth still, especially within

Africa

• CALL TO ACTION: what could you do?

Thank you

carrie.calder@biomedcentral.com