Bo-Christer Björk 2004 1 Open Access publishing – a Finnish perspective Prof. Bo-Christer Björk HANKEN chairman of the FinnOA working group
Jan 14, 2016
Bo-Christer Björk 2004 1
Open Access publishing – a Finnish perspective
Prof. Bo-Christer Björk
HANKEN
chairman of the FinnOA working group
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Self-publishing
Main OA channels
Subject-specific repositories
Institutional repositories
OA Journals
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Popularity of main OA channels
OA Journals
Subject-specific repositories
Institutional repositories
Self-publishing
~ 4 % in titles, 1 % in articles
Important in a few areas
Rapidly increasing interest
Most common channel
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OA research activities at Hanken
• Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange– EC funding 2002-2004
– seven partners from six countries
– Life-cycle costs, study of barriers
• Open Access Communication for Science – Academy of Finland funding 2004 – 2007
– HANKEN, HKKK
– Economics, user behaviour, copyrigth issues
OACS
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Journal Review Policy
Manuscript
Copyeditedmanuscript
Reviewers Comments
ReviewersTheEditor The
ResearcherPublisher
Copyrigth agreement
Accepted Manuscript
Choice of reviewers
Rejected manuscript
Copyrigth agreement10 mk
Manage the review process
20 mk
Review Manuscript
30 mk
Revise Manuscript40 mk
Negociate copyright
50 mk
Copyedit Article
Openaccess
Current publisher(3 cases)
First copy costexcluding costs for thereview process
120€ 448€ - 1000€
Cost for the reviewprocess (editor’sshare)
450€ 433 - 687€
General costs perarticle
585€ 944 - 1670€
Total cost per article 1155€ 1938€ - 3270€
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Barriers for increased use of OA?
Journals Subject specific repositories
Institutional repositories
Legal framework
IT-infrastructure
Business model
Indexing
Academic reward system
Marketing and critical mass
Low Medium Medium
Medium Medium Medium
High Medium Low
Medium Low High
High Low Medium
High High High
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How to overcome the barriers: legal framework
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How to overcome the barriers: IT-infrastructure
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How to overcome the barriers:journal business models
• Paid Access– Pay per view
– Individual title subscription
– Big deals
• Open Access– Community service
– Advertising
– Grants
– Author charges
– Institutional membership
• Hybrid models– Delayed OA
– Limited functionality OA
– Individual article OA
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An interesting example: Scielo!
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How to overcome the barriers: Indexing
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How to overcome the barriers: Academic reward system
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How to overcome the barriers: Marketing and critical mass
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The Finnish situation
• Inflow of publications from abroad– Making OA material more visible in the portals of
Academic libraries
• Publications by Finnish academics– Supporting the creation of Finnish institutional
repositories
– Populating them with output by Finnish academics
• OA-journals published in Finland– Creating an infrastructure so that journals can go
electronic using OA business models
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