OPEN ACCESSFor Beginners

Katarina LovrecicCopywriter at InTech Open Access PublisherMarch, 2011

"roses red violets blue"stays unread

till paid by youStevan Harnad,

Open Access Haiku

Concept The Idea The Movement New Research Crisis The People Associations Students and Universities Mandates and Repositories Keeping Track

The Budapest Initiative, 2001:

“An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented

public good.”

http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

old tradition = the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in

scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge

new technology = internet

unprecedented public good = world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal

literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers,

students, and other curious minds

New Technology = Internet

Tim Berners Lee, MIT professorInvented World Wide Web (WWW)

The first website built at CERN:info.cern.ch

Internet protocols (TCP,IP) allow for OPEN STANDARDS

Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web

Code is Law, L.Lessig

Cyberspace has an architecture = its codeCode has principles, terms – it defines what is

possible in that space.

We can use this code to write new law:Creative Commons Licences

http://creativecommons.org/

Copyleft Movement

Creative Commons, San Francisco, CaliforniaFounded in 2001 by L.Lessig et al

Share, Remix, Reuse – LegallyA documentary: RIP REMIX Manifesto

Available for free at:http://ripremix.com/

CC Licenses

Others can distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work

You can choose and combine attributions:BY: author must be credited for his work

SA (share alike): new creations must be licensed under identical terms

NC (non commercial): new creations can not be used for commercial purposes

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Public Domain

Renewed law of copyright, 1980s: nothing falls into public domain per se

Public Domain: Works with intellectual rights expired

Fair Use – A Fairytale?

Singing Happy Birthday in public – copyright infringement?

http://www.unhappybirthday.com/

The Movement

Revolution started by students on campuses

Turned into a global scale publishing revolution

Right to Research Coalition, Students for Open Access:

http://www.righttoresearch.org/learn/whyOA/index.shtml#Students

Peter SuberIndependent Theoretician of Open AccessOpen Access becomes a study of its own

Open Access Overview: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

New Research in a Digital Age

Petabytes of data circulating the web Information needed fast Information flows freely Collaborative research vs. focused research Scientists socially “networked” New tools available Scientist must keep track of new inventions Metric tools for citations on the web

The Crisis

Serials Crisis: No library can afford to buy subscriptions to all journals.

Journal subscriptions fees rise. (more than 42% increase in cost for all periodicals)

Library budgets are cut.

Librarians become strong advocates of Open Access

SPARC = international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances

in the scholarly publishing system.

SPARC and Open Access Week

Open Access Week: The last “full” week in October

Different events organized around the worldCelebration

Program Director: Jennifer McLennanWebpage and Membership:

http://www.openaccessweek.org/

Organized by SPARC

SPARC and Open Access Newsletter

SOAN (SPARC Open Access Newsletter) is published and sponsored by the Scholarly

Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

Released monthlyWritten by Peter Suber

March 2011 editon: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/0

3-02-11.htm

Creating a Model: Green or Gold?

Green Road to Open Access: authors perform self-archiving upon publishing a peer-reviewed

journal article

Gold Road to Open Access: institutions pay for their authors' gold open access publication fees

(APC)

The Green Road - ROARMAP

Around 200 (so far) green open access mandates recorded at ROARMAP:

http://roarmap.eprints.org/

Powered by Eprints at Southampton University,List of Open Access Repositories:

http://roar.eprints.org/

Open Access Archivangelism:Stevan Harnad

http://openaccess.eprints.org/

Hi, my name is Stevan Harnad and I am haunted by a koan:

Why did 34,000 researchers sign a threat in 2000 to boycott their journals unless those journals

agreed to provide open access to their articles - when the researchers themselves could provide open access (OA) to their own articles by self-

archiving them on their own institutional websites?

Gold Road – Revenue Model Missed

Around 22% of journals today = Open Access Journals

However, there is a lack of quality publications

Lack of oa journals : lack of demand for funding : lack of funding

Toll-Access Model: Faculty (libraries) pay money for access to papers

Open-Access Model: Author (institution) pays publishing services to gold OA publisher

A revenue model for Open Access = university providing funds for the articles written by its

faculty

Institutions sign to COPEhttp://www.oacompact.org/compact/Compact for OA publishing equitiesAccepting different COPE policies:

They either mandate self-archiving or provide funds for OA gold publications written by its

faculty

i.e. MIT, Harvard, Simon Fraser University, Stellenbosch Uni, Trinity College...

OASPA: Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

- standards set for journal and recently, book publishers

Giant OA Publishers: Biomed, Plos, Hindawi...

Organizations: Creative Commons, SPARC...

Some Nobelists...

COPE Supporters

SCOAP3 Project

Redirection of subscription money An example of group of journals and

subscribers in high-energy physics that agree to cancel all at once their journal subscriptions and switch to OA model

Members: CERN, JINR... http://scoap3.org/

Open Access Map Project by Leslie Chan and Alma Swan from OASIS

http://www.openoasis.org/

the world map will include all Open Access projects, services and initiatives.

The tool will also involve a timeline which will show the development of Open Access over the

last decade in terms of repositories, policies adopted and OA journals published.

“Measuring” Open Access

List of OA journalshttp://www.doaj.org/

Different subjects and languages

News, stats:The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics

By Heather Morrisson:http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/

DOAJ – Directory of Open Acess Journals

Two-year project funded by the European Comission

Research on Open Access

Co-ordinated by CERN

Results and presentations:http://project-soap.eu/

SOAP – The Study of Open Access Publishing

InTechWeb Blog – Publishing World Seen Through the Looking Glass

http://intechweb.wordpress.com/

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