The revolution has been cancelled: the current state of UK Open Access

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The revolution has been cancelled: the current state of UK Open Access

“For their part, publishers tend to assume that OA advocates are freeloaders or - as ACS’s Rudy Baum appeared to imply in

2004 - dangerous socialists.”

- Richard Poynder (2014)

Poynder, R. (2014) Richard Poynder on the state of open access: Where are we? What still needs to be done? - http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-state-of-open-access.html

Revolution, n.

“An alteration, a change; esp. a dramatic or wide-reaching change in conditions, the state of affairs, etc.”

In the beginning…

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Disruptive technology

A people’s revolution?

Difficult definitions

Revolution, n.

“Cyclical recurrence, esp. of a point or period of time; the passing or duration of a (usu. recurring) period of time (as a year, a season, etc.). †by revolution, with the passing of time; in due course.”

Attitudes to OA

Attitudes to OA - Warwick

• in favour of OA principles79.4%• have made work open access

• Of those 67.1% used WRAP70.8%• believe copyright of articles

should remain with the author70.4%

• keep a copy of the AAM93.5%• are happy with CC-BY

licenses for their work48.6%

Attitudes to the RCUK policy - Warwick

20%

23%

13%10%

16%

13%5% Strongly in favour

Mildly in favour

Neutral

Mildly against

Strongly against

Don't know

Not applicable

Attitudes to the HEFCE policy - Warwick

16%

26%

14%10%

12%

19%3%

Strongly in favourMildly in favourNeutralMildly againstStrongly againstDon't knowNot applicable

Carrots and sticks

Issue of ownership

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Five year plan

Swan, A and Houghton, J (2012) Going for Gold? The costs and benefits of Gold Open Access for UK research institutions: further economic modelling. Report to the UK Open Access Implementation Group. http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/610/ Released under the CC-BY 3.0 license - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

-1,000,000

-500,000

0

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

Worldwide Gold OA

Worldwide Green OA

Unilateral Gold OA

Unilateral Green OA

GBP

per a

nnum

Worldwide adoption of Open Access

Unilateral adoption of Open Access

Free markets?

Revolution, n.

“Overthrow of an established government or social order by those previously subject to it; forcible substitution of a new form of government. In early use also: rebellion.”

All change?

BBE - May 2015?

Which hat?

The future of scholarly communications is…

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Thanks for listening!

The revolution has been cancelled: the current state of UK Open AccessRepository Fringe 2014,University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 30 th July 2014

Yvonne Budden - Academic Support Manager (Research) and Chair (UKCoRR)[email protected]+44 2476 151275