Jeffery Loo

December 17, 2009

jloo@berkeley.edu

On Promoting Open Access

at LBNL

“With any entrée, you get unlimitedaccess to the trough.”

Agenda

1Awareness of

open access principles

funding

challengesjournal subscription fees

copyright ownership / controlreader access

return on public investment

Research life cycle challenges

(Treloar and Groenewegen, 2007)

Open access responds to these challenges

Publishing that is

Digital and online

Free access for readers *

Fewer copyright restrictions

not free for authors(Suber, 2007)

Motivations for OA participation

Self-i

ntere

st

Altruism

Advantages and concerns

Advantages

Greater visibility and citation rate

Digital

Free access

Promotes collaboration and exchange

Concerns

Publishing quality

Preservation and authenticity

Sustainability of author-pays model

Conflict of interest when author pays

(Information Platform Open Access, 2009)

2Open access

models

Spectrum of open access models

Less effortIndividual level

More effortCollaboration

Open access licensesan alternative to traditional copyright

Open access journalsfree to read, but not to produce

Springer Open Choice

Open access archives and repositories

Self-archiving

Where to archive:Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org

Permission to self-archive?Sherpa-Romeo databasehttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/index.html

arXiv.org

publishing system and repositoryno fees for UC members and LBNLUCPubS - print on demand

administrative and financial

Institutional support

Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity

Berkeley Research Impact Initiative

(BRII)

Funding for OA publishing by UC Berkeley members

Institutional policy and mandates

MIT – all facultiesHarvard – Faculty of Arts and SciencesStanford – School of Education

Institutional collaboration

SCOAP3

Collaboration to promote open access publications in high energy physics

Advocacy (for the law)

Nobel LaureatesOpen letter re:Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)

Spectrum of OA optionsThe University of California recommends

What’s on the horizon?

Open dataGenBankScience CommonsDataONE

Encouragement by:CIHRWellcome Trust

eScienceCyberinfrastructureHigh performance computing at LBNL

Open Science

transparency and collaborationopen notebook science

citizen science

(Lyon, 2009)

Other research communication

Pubcast on SciVeeObject Re-Use and Exchange (ORE) StandardHerbert Van de Sompel (LANL)

(Pepe et al., ?)

3Discussion

Issues for reflectionOpen access awareness and activity•Key LBNL supporters of OA publishing•Administrative support for OA initiatives•Metrics for the awareness, activity, and support of OA•What OA support do LBNL members need?

Funding•How much is LBNL spending on OA publishing fees?•Are the OA journal pricing models prohibitive?•Are alternative models and sources of funding necessary? Advocacy

Conclusion by haiku

Open access helps

Protect, preserve, publicize -

What can be done here?

ReferencesInformation Platform Open Access. 2009. Pros and Cons.

http://open-access.net/de_en/print/general_information/pros_and_cons_of_open_access/ Accessed: 2009/12/14

Lyon, L. 2009. Open science at web-scale: Optimising participation and predictive potential. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/opensciencerpt.aspx Accessed: 2009/12/14

Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California. 2009. Reshaping Scholarly Communication. http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/ Accessed: 2009/12/14

Pepe, A., Mayernik1, M., Borgman, C.L., and Van de Sompel, H. (?) From Artifacts to Aggregations: Modeling Scientific Life Cycles on the Semantic Web. http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0906/0906.2549.pdf Accessed: 2009/12/14

Suber, P. 2007. Open Access Overview. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm Accessed: 2009/12/14

Treloar A and Groenewegen D. 2007. ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects. Ariadne. 51. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue51/treloar-groenewegen/ Accessed: 2009/12/14