Open Access Update Caroline Sutton Publisher, Co-Action Publishing President, Open Access Scholarly Publisher’s Association (OASPA) ISMTE Meeting August 9, 2011, Washington, DC
May 24, 2015
Open Access Update
Caroline Sutton Publisher, Co-Action PublishingPresident, Open Access Scholarly Publisher’s Association (OASPA)
ISMTE MeetingAugust 9, 2011, Washington, DC
A bit about Co-Action Publishing
Founded by three former executives from academic publishing industry
Established as Swedish limited liability company in 2007
Founding Member Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, current President
Publish journals across disciplines, including Social Sciences and the Humanities, but primarily medicine
Established October 2008 by: BioMed Central Co-Action Publishing Copernicus Publications Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Medical Internet Research (Gunther
Solomon) Medical Education Online (David Solomon) Public Library of Science (PLoS) SAGE Publications SPARC Europe Utrecht University Library (Igitur)
MissionOASPA offers a forum for bringing together the entire community of Open Access publishers.
Our mission is to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal and book publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarl disciplines. This mission will be carried out through exchanging information, setting standards, advancing models, advocacy, education, and the promotion of innovation.
Definitionsof Open Access
OPEN ACCESS = Free Access + Re-use
Creative Commons Licenses
Most common:
Attribution 3.0
(CCBY or CCAL) Attribution-
Noncommercial 3.0
(CCBY-NC)
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Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to Co-Action Publishing. However, authors are required to transfer copyrights associated with commercial use to the Publisher. Revenues from commercial sales are used to keep down the publication fees. Moreover, a major portion of the profits generated from commercial sales is placed in a fund to cover publication fees for researchers from developing nations and, in some cases, for young researchers.
Achieving Open Access through the self archiving of peer-reviewed journal articles.
Different publishers have different policies on deposition of articles.
List and policies available at SHERPA-RoMEO (www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo)
”Green Open Access”
The changing landscape of argumentsOpen Access
The financial argument“Serials Crisis”
The financial argument“Tax payer access”
The funder argument“Maximize investment in research”
30 Europe10 United States & Canada 7 Internationally
The new arguments:Open Access as key to innovation and economic growth
2010 Communication from the Commission on the Innovation Union :“In 2012, the Commission will propose a European Research Area Framework and supporting measures [...]. They will notably seek to ensure through a common approach to [...] dissemination, transfer and use of research results, including through open access to publications and data from publicly funded research”. The Commission “[...]will promote open access to the results of publicly funded research. It will aim to make open access to publications the general principle for projects funded by the EU research Framework Programmes [...]”.COM (2010) 546.
Chris Anderson – Free: The Future of a Radical Price
The changing landscape beyond academic publishing: ”living in a free world”
”A new kind of business is emerging – one that opens its doors to the world, innovates with everyone (especially customers), shares resources that were previously guarded, harnesses the power of mass collaboration, and behaves not as a multinational but as something new: a truly global firm.”
Don Tascott & Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics. How mass collaboration changes everything
The changing landscape beyond academic publishing: ”Wikinomics”
”A social network diagram”, Screenshot taken by Darwin Peacock, accessed through Wikimedia; distributed under a CCL 3.0.
Understanding knowledge as a network (vs. property)
Knowledge as an infrastructure
The changing publishing landscapeTypes of publishers, Distribution of publishers, Output levels
Large Professional Publishing Organizations
Small Professional Publishing Organizations
University Libraries and University Presses
Scholar Publishers
600 + societies publishing OA journals (Suber & Sutton list at: www.co-action.net/projects/OAsocieties/) Society Publishers
Size of publishers
Size of publisher by number of DOAJ journals
DOAJ publishers
% DOAJ journals %
1 2271 88% 2271 56%
2 to 9 287 11% 849 21%
10 to 49 25 1% 358 9%
≥ 50 5 0% 554 14%
Total 2588 4032
Panayiota Polydoratou and Ralf Schimmer :Scholarly journals and underlying business models’ attributes: preliminary findings from analysing DOAJ journal level metadata, Proceedings ELPUB2010 – Conference on Electronic PublishingJune 2010 – Helsinki, Finland
Size of Publishers TA vs OA
No. Jnls % TAPublishers
% TA Journals
% OA Publishers
% OA Journals
1 83.7 31.7 87.9 55
10 0.3 1.0 0.1 0.4
11-20 1.0 5.4 0.8 6.9
21-50 0.8 8.8 0.2 3.5
51-100 0.3 7.2 0.1 2.6
100+ 0.3 29.7 0.1 10.3
Table adapted from: Frantsvåg, Jan Erik (2010): The Size Distribution of open access publishers: A problem for open access? First Monday, Volume 15, Number 12- 6 December.
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Slide courtesy of Paul Peters, Hindawi Publishing Corporation (Oct. 2009)
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Thanks to Mark Patterson, PLoS for sharing this slide and the next two slides.
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Trends and innovationsThinking outside the box
Some trends and innnovations in OA publishing ”Mega” journals
Re-use and remixing of content
Software & applications development for science and scientists
Linking data and publications
https://sites.google.com/site/beyondthepdf/
Copyright: Toria/Shutterstock.com
Sample Journal TransitionFood & Nutrition Research
Universe of a Subscription Journal
Access only for those who have a subscription – for Food & Nutrition Research, approx. 700-800
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Universe of the OA Journal
Healthcare Workers – esp Physicians &
NutritionistsNutrition
advocates
General citizens interested in their
own nutrition
Gov’t agencies &
policy-makers
Researchers from related fields
Related profession
s
Industries with links
Pharmaceutical Co
(e.g. Novartis Medical Nutrition)
Print and online magazines
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Usage IncreasedDuring first six months: Over 42 000 full text article requests Over 32 000 full pages viewed by over 6 000 different
visitors to the website
Visitors were from 120 different countries while subscriptions had been from 14 countries
After three years: 5-6000 visitors per month 10 000- 17000 downloads per month Visitors from 190 countries, with the US accounting for
20% of traffic. Submissions are up, citations are up (Unofficial impact
calculation: 2.708) Over 700 members on LinkedIn, over 1100
registered users.
THANK YOU!