Moving beyond borders

Moving beyond borders:

open access publishing in the age of globalism

Julia Gross

Moving beyond borders: open access

1. Scholarly communication crisis

2. Publishers, authors, libraries and scholars

3. Open Access movement

4. Institutional repositories

5. Role of library

Scholarly communication crisis

Key stakeholders

publishers authors libraries scholars

“Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist”

Publishers

The big 3 STM publishers

Research is publically funded– Authors not paid– Publishers get free content

Publishers side of the argument

Provide support for research

Meet a need

Manage publication process

Manage peer review process

Ensure quality

Authors

Authors interested in– Research outcomes– Citations and impact factors– Peer review, quality control– Career, academic promotion, tenure

Vested interest in the status quo

Authors value open access

Libraries

Online = library pays access fee to publisher

Licence agreements with publisher

Library budgets are under pressure

Percentage spent on journals increasing

Journal price increases33% 2007-2011 over 5 years

Less money for books

Scholars

Scholars need access to publications

Scholars loose out in closed access

Only staff/students of institution get access

Not free to those outside institution

Journals charge toll-access to articles

e. g. US$30 per journal article (Elsevier)

is there another

way

forward ?

Open Access (OA)

Open access to publicly funded research

Budapest OA Initiative 2002

OA embraced by research funders, libraries, scholars

OA benefitsGreater exposure

Universal access

Discovery via Google

Open Access – how?

Green RoadAuthor self archives

Institutional e-repository

Discipline repository

Gold RoadAuthor publishes in OA journal

Advantages of E-Repositories

Free access to scholars

Available worldwide

Digital preservation for the long-term

Challenges the closed publishing model

Faster access

Citation benefits

Advantages of E-Repositories

Promotes and showcases research

Preserves research online

Stores and organises research

Optimised for Google search

Included in Google Scholar

Enhances scholarly communication

E-Repositories

Published works

book chapters, conference papers

journal articles, working papers

Digital formats

media, music, images

Dissertations

Conference and journal publishing

Growth in E-Repositories 2003-

E-Repositories worldwide 2100+

Europe

Americas

Asia

Other

23%

17%

1314%

Europe

Asia

Americas

Other

46%

ECU’s E-Repository

Repository Open access journal

Humanities Open Access journals

Open Humanities Press

Culture Machine

Postmodern Culture

Australian Humanities Review

First Monday

Digital Humanities Quarterly

Vanishing borders?

Thankyouany questions?