Publishers, Open Access, and the Cost of Knowledge

Publishers,Open Access, andthe Cost of Knowledge

Deborah Fitchett21st May 2012

Dissemination of research

Added value

Academics• research• peer review• act as editors

Publishers

• sell this workback to the universitywhich pays academics

Prices

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/04/funding/coping-with-the-terrible-twins-periodicals-price-survey-2012/

Prices

“major periodical subscriptions, especially to electronic journals published by historically key providers, cannot be sustained: continuing these subscriptions on their current footing is financially untenable”

[Harvard] Faculty Advisory Council Memorandumhttp://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448

Open access

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JournalsTitle SCImago

Nucleic Acids Research 1.542 OA

Structure 1.514 not-OA

Journal of Biological Chemistry 0.793 OA

Analytical Chemistry 0.661 not-OA

BMC Chemical Biology 0.586 OA

DNA Research 0.556 OA

Chemical Communications 0.507 not-OA

Biosensors and Bioelectronics 0.493 not-OA

Molecular Medicine 0.442 OA

Journal of Physical Chemistry C 0.435 not-OA

Journal of Cheminformatics 0.351 OA

European Cells and Materials 0.322 OA

Laser Chemistry 0.298 OA

BMC Biochemistry 0.265 OA

Electrochimica Acta 0.262 not-OA

Journal of Statistical Software 0.259 OA

Nanoscale Research Letters 0.255 OA

Dalton Transactions 0.254 not-OA

Electroanalysis 0.201 not-OA

International Journal of Molecular Sciences 0.182 OA

Protein Expression and Purification 0.179 not-OA

Journal of Sensors 0.174 OA

Australian Journal of Chemistry 0.153 not-OA

Sensors 0.151 OA

Metal-Based Drugs 0.137 OA

Current Chemical Genomics 0.135 OA

Molecules 0.130 OA

Acta Biochimica Polonica 0.129 OA

Chemistry Central Journal 0.118 OA

International Journal of Electrochemical Science 0.117 OA

Journal of Chemical Sciences 0.117 OA

Journal of Materials Science 0.117 not-OA

Comptes Rendus Chimie 0.117 not-OA

BMB Reports 0.116 OA

Analytical Sciences 0.105 OA

Chinese Science Bulletin 0.102 OA

Structural Chemistry 0.067 not-OA

Analytical Chemistry Insights 0.063 OA

Journal of Coordination Chemistry 0.058 not-OA

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 0.057 OA

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Subject repositories Institutional repositories

Repositories

Publisher’s reactions

Ignore it

Fight it• Forbid authors from depositing in repositories• Put out anti-OA misinformation• Support/fund anti-OA legislation

Join it – sort of...• Let authors deposit some version in repositories• Provide expensive OA publishing options

Reactions to the reactions

http://thecostofknowledge.com/

374 in Chemistry

Open Access for chemists

http://www.doaj.org/

Repositories

http://oaister.worldcat.org/

Read and cite OA

Journals

Publish OA

• Submit to Open Access journalsOR

• Submit a copy to UC Research Repository

SPARC Copyright Addendum:http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/

Review and edit OA

“I pledge to devote most of my reviewing and editing efforts to manuscripts destined for open access. For other manuscripts, I will restrict myself to one review by me for each review obtained for me by an outlet that is not open access.”

http://www.openaccesspledge.com/

Explore OA

Open Notebook Science

Questions?

Thank you!Contact:

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