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The State of the Art of Open Access Open Access is here to stay
Vanessa ProudmanSPARC Europe
Proud2Know
EAHIL Course, 10 June 2014
Overview
• What Open Access is
• The changing context of scholarly communication
• How funders and institutions are supporting the change
• Library support
• What’s next
What is Open Access?
“ Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder”
A very brief introduction to Open AccessPeter Suber
Open Access empowers
THE CHANGING CONTEXTOF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
Arxiv.org, 1991
Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2001
“Open access is economically feasible, it gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and it gives authors and their works vast and measureable new visibility, readership, and impact.”
www.soros.org/openaccess
Open Access repositories, 2000
• Provide digital access to research
• Through an interoperable framework (OAI-PMH)
• Institutions and subject communities
• > 2500 repositories since 2000
• Creating a global database of openly-accessible research
ISS Repository
Directory of Open Access Repositorieshttp://www.opendoar.org
Open Access journals
• Content available to readers free of charge
• Some journals charge a publishing fee
• Although more than 50% do not
• To date (June 2014), over 9,750 OA journals (doaj.org) vs ca 50,000 total of peer-reviewed journals (Ulrich’s)
Open Journals System (OJS)
Ubiquity Press
BioMed Central
Springer Open
Articles are increasing
from Laakso, M., & Björk, B.-C. (2012). Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal
development and internal structure. BMC Medicine, 10(1), 124. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-124
Europe Pubmed Central
Open Access Button
Knowledge Unlatched
Open Access Books
Directory of Open Access Books
Europe Pubmed Central
Altmetrics
Data re-use, data mining, etc
• Open licensing
• License to text-mine
• The economic impact of TDM
Re-use: Sets of copyright licenses since 2002
Creative Commons
International Open Access services
• OpenAIRE
• SHERPA/Romeo Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
• SHERPA/Juliet Research funders’ open access policies
• ROARMAP Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies
• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
• DOAB Directory of Open Access Books
• …
FUNDERS AND INSTITUTIONS ARE SUPPORTING THIS CHANGE
Universidade do Minho(Roarmap summary)
Liége Open Access Policy (Roarmap summary)
Open Access Fund
Open Access Journal Funds
JULIET
Wellcome Trust Mandate, 2005
The Finch Report (UK), 2012
HEFCE
Chinese Academy of Science Policy
Open ACCESS PILOT FP7
OpenAIRE
EU Horizon 2020
FP7 >> H2020FP7 H2020
‘Green’ policy: ‘make best
efforts…’
‘Green’ mandate (obligatory)
‘Gold’ payments eligible ‘Gold’ payments eligible
Covers 20% of research
(selected fields)
Covers 100% of research (all
fields)
6/12 month embargoes 6/12 month embargoes
Mute on monographs Mute on monographs
Nothing on Open Data Open Data pilot
ROARMAP OA mandate growth 2/14
LIBRARIESSUPPORTING FURTHER VISIBILITY AND IMPACT
Citation impact
Ref: A. Swan Open Access Seminar, Bergen, Norway,
25/26 September 2013
Ref: A. Swan Open Access Seminar, Bergen, Norway,
25/26 September 2013
Top 50 authors
Ray Frost’s impact
QUT
QUT 2
Open Access Fund
Open Access Journal Funds
Other library services
• What is Open Access? Information Services, The University of Edinburgh
• Research Funders: Open Access Policies, University Library, University of St Andrews
• Which journals should I publish in? University of Warwick Library
• Getting Published, University Library, The University of Melbourne
• Michigan Publishing, MLibrary, University of Michigan
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