Commercial Publishers and Open Access Tony McSen, Director of Library Relations ELAG Library Systems Seminar, Geneva June 2 nd, 2005 2 Commercial & Learned Society Publishers 3 Open Access Varieties Open Access Publishing (eg BMJ, BioMed Central, PLoS) Local repositories (institutional or personal) Subject repositories 4 OA Publishing (Author Pays) Not a moral issue Springer, Blackwells and others experimenting Different business models 5 OA Publishing Finances Public Library of Science BioMed Central BMJ 6 OA Publishing Finances Why So Uncertain? Unit pricing 7 OA Publishing Finances Why So Uncertain? Unit pricing Small number of papers 8 OA Publishing Finances Why So Uncertain? Unit pricing Small number of papers Free ride for industry 9 OA Publishing Finances Why So Uncertain? Unit pricing Small number of papers Free ride for industry Doesnt do the whole job 10 OA Publishing Practical Issues Not high status journals 11 OA Publishing Practical Issues Not high status journals Bias towards publishing 12 OA Publishing Practical Issues Not high status journals Bias towards publishing Not 100% merit-based 13 IRs & Other Local Postings 100% in favour and supportive Institutional Repositories, departmental and personal web sites Full post-print copy posted immediately it appears on ScienceDirect 14 Subject Repositories More difficult issues over return on the money and effort invested Individual agreements to be struck Need to obey the law 15 What Are Institutional Repositories For? Personal pride in achievement 16 What Are Institutional Repositories For? Personal pride in achievement Institutional pride, marketing, score- keeping 17 What Are Institutional Repositories For? Personal pride in achievement Institutional pride, marketing, score- keeping Management, administration, strategic planning, HR 18 What Are Institutional Repositories For? Personal pride in achievement Institutional pride, marketing, score- keeping Management, administration, strategic planning, HR Efficiencies in proposal-writing 20 Problems OA Needs to Solve Doing the full job 21 Problems OA Needs to Solve Doing the full job Author cooperation 22 Problems OA Needs to Solve Doing the full job Author cooperation Future-proofing access development 23 Problems OA Needs to Solve Doing the full job Author cooperation Future-proofing access development Financial reality 24 Problems OA Needs to Solve Doing the full job Author cooperation Future-proofing access development Financial reality Coping with the volume of work 25 StorageStorage 90 Terabytes of Data Storage 1.2 Petabytes of Tape Storage 1 Petabyte = 1,000 Terabytes = 1,000,000 Gigabytes = 1,000,000,000 Megabytes 90 Terabytes of Data Storage 1.2 Petabytes of Tape Storage 1 Petabyte = 1,000 Terabytes = 1,000,000 Gigabytes = 1,000,000,000 Megabytes 26 Chilled Water Plant Chiller capacity of 1400 tons Serves 69 AC units and 3 IBM bi-polar mainframe CPUs Water is misted in the tower to blow off the heat On average 20,000 gallons of water dissipated each day at peak Dual water feeds 40,000 gallon underground water storage tank Piping connections available to bring in portable chillers We pump enough water to fill the average swimming pool every 8 minutes Enough capacity to cool 2600 homes Chiller capacity of 1400 tons Serves 69 AC units and 3 IBM bi-polar mainframe CPUs Water is misted in the tower to blow off the heat On average 20,000 gallons of water dissipated each day at peak Dual water feeds 40,000 gallon underground water storage tank Piping connections available to bring in portable chillers We pump enough water to fill the average swimming pool every 8 minutes Enough capacity to cool 2600 homes 27 GeneratorsGenerators 6 Detroit Diesel generators rated at 790 kw each 6 8000 gallon underground diesel fuel storage tanks Can run 8 10 days before refuelling Ran 3 continuous days during the winter of 1998 due to an ice storm The Building 1 Office can be transferred to generators in case of an extended outage Our monthly utility bill is equivalent to that of a 60 story office building 6 Detroit Diesel generators rated at 790 kw each 6 8000 gallon underground diesel fuel storage tanks Can run 8 10 days before refuelling Ran 3 continuous days during the winter of 1998 due to an ice storm The Building 1 Office can be transferred to generators in case of an extended outage Our monthly utility bill is equivalent to that of a 60 story office building 28 UPS and Batteries 6 UPS systems with 2 3 modules each for redundancy 2,040 wet cell batteries Sized to provide 15 minutes of power at full load Cell life is rated at 20 years Tested quarterly 6 UPS systems with 2 3 modules each for redundancy 2,040 wet cell batteries Sized to provide 15 minutes of power at full load Cell life is rated at 20 years Tested quarterly 29 Elseviers Own Commitments to Access Responsive policy making Patient information web sites, Price cut for post cancellation access, ILL policy rethink Developing world access HINARI/AGORA, $1,000,000 anniversary book donation, Low-bandwidth option developed with MIT Long-term access Elsevier archives, KB perpetual archive, Backfile digitisations, 30 Thank You