The dutch road to open access public version

The Dutch road to open access: fool’s gold?TiU, LIS, MvdB, 20-10-2014

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What is the problem?

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In the Dutch newspapers …

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Money eager publishers are threatening science

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What’s in it for the Dutch?

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https://www.surf.nl/en/knowledge-and-innovation/knowledge-base/2009/costs-and-benefits-of-research-communication-the-dutch-situation.html

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OA: not a solution for every problem

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How are we doing?

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NARCIS

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All OAPublications All institutions 933,509 382,442 41,0%

Tilburg University 63,514 15,372 24,2%

Articles All institutions 457,082 157,079 34,4%Tilburg University 26,224 5,736 21,9%

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QOAM, quality open access market

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OAPEN, open access books

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• stimulate migration of editorial boards to sustainable gold open acces journals

• existing

• start anew

• copyright support

• a.o. services

OPuS

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SURF

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International developments

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UK

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UK Note

Finch report gold OA for £60 million a year 2012

UK Business, Innovation and Skills Committee

reconsider green OA for five year transition period, reinstate and strengthen deposit mandates

2013

Research Councils (RCUK)

gold or greenresult: increasing embargo periods

Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)

Research Excellence Framework (REF) after 2014: immediate deposit in IR

embargos may apply

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European Commission

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Horizon 2020

• green or gold

• APC’s eligible for reimbursement

• deposit mandatory also for gold OA

• 6-12 embargos periods accepted

• aims to include research data

In all cases, the Commission would like to encourage authors to retain their copyright and

grant adequate licences to publishers.

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EU dissemination - exploitation

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USA

US Government

Feb 2013 memorandum from the U.S. Government's Office of Science and Technology Policy requiring public access to federally funded data.

Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures [must] develop plans to make … federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication.

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The Netherlands: Going for Gold

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Secretary of State Dekker (2013)

19-10-2014Fool's gold OA?

• OA is hugely important.• OA is a cross-border matter.• Relevant parties (researchers, universities, publishers) have not been able to reach a

single OA-system.

• Urges Dutch parties to negotiate gold OA with next ‘big deals’ (Q4, 2014).

• Targets: 40% OA in 2016, 100% OA in 2024.

• Full OA or hybrid.

• Has no interest for green OA.

• No extra money from the government.

Warns parties involved:

If the relevant parties do not do enough, or progress is unacceptably slow, the Minister

and I will recommend making open access publication mandatory in 2016 under the

Higher Education and Research Act (…).

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VSNU

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Calls upon researchers to:

• use green OA today

• co-operate to achieve gold OA

• hybrid OA permitted as transition

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• Has funds for OA

• Pilots setting up new open access journals or converting existing journals into an open access form.

• Encourages gold OA, accepts green OA.

• Works on an open access policy for data.

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

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• Negotiate big deals: Elsevier, Springer, Wiley (Q4, 2014).

• Position: 0% price increase, 100% gold OA.

• Firm stance, united.

• Articles only.

• Does not include (yet?):

• data

• machine readibility, data / text mining

• archiving

Dutch universities (VSNU & UKB)

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• If cost for licenses are high, how about APC’s?

How much OA can today’s licenses buy?

• Does the burden fall on research intensive institutions?

• Are we subsidizing hybrid OA and ‘double dipping’?

• No effect on copyright issues, on text / data mining?

But then again:

• 100% OA for a country as a whole, at zero (?) additional cost.

• Societal, economical benefits.

• Snowball effect? On other publishers? Other countries?

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What can you do?

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It depends …

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http://www.rikkers.net/059-openaccess.html

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What can you do?

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What any researcher can already do to promote (proper) Open Access:

• stop reviewing closed-access papers

• stop reviewing for non-gold Open Access journals

• submit only to full-gold Open Access journals

• put your previous closed-access papers in university repositories

• make previously published closed-access papers gold Open Access

• get an ORCID

• use #altmetrics to see that gold Open Access gives you more impact for your

papers toochem-bla-ics blog, Saturday, August 30, 2014

http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.nl/2014/08/on-open-access.html

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Stay informed: www.openaccess.nl

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