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Open Access & evolving scholarly communications A Presentation to the BYU Academic Vice President’s Council October 9, 2008 Gideon Burton Jeff Belliston
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A presentation on Open Access given to the leadership of Brigham Young University Oct 9, 2008
Transcript of Opening Our Scholarship
Open Access &evolving scholarly communications
A Presentation to the BYUAcademic Vice President’s CouncilOctober 9, 2008
Gideon BurtonJeff Belliston
Economics of publishing Digital context for scholarship
1. Advantages and publishing options
2. Author rights3. Institutional repository
Digital Online Free of charge Free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions
Source: Peter Suber, “Open Access Overview” http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Research and Writing
Peer ReviewPublication
No longer the beginning or ending point for scholarship
Scriptorium Printing Press
“There is nothing more necessary for promoting the improvement of Philosophical Matters, than the communicating — [of] such things as are discovered or put in practice by others; it is therefore thought fit to employ the Press.”
–Henry Oldenburg, Philosophical Transactions, 1665
Restriction Makes PossibleNumber of publications Quality control /
prestige
Price / Subscription Cover publishing costs
Give up copyright Exclusive access via publisher
Restriction Negative ResultNumber of publications Less published
Price / Subscription Less circulated
Give up copyright Less used
Academic presses closing Reduced subsidies for university presses Fewer titles per press Smaller print runs
North American Research LibrarySerial & Monograph Costs, 1986-2003 (ARL Statistics)
Indexed, but not available Copyright restricts re-use
◦ Classroom◦ Global access
Digital Publishing
Printing Press
Restricted Access Open Access
“A commitment to the value and quality of research carries with it a responsibility to extend the circulation of such work as far as possible and ideally to all who are interested in it and all who might profit by it.”
–John Willinsky, The Access Principle (MIT Press, 2005)
Where to publish“Sudden Cardiac Death during
Mountain Hiking and Downhill Skiing”
Randy Olsen
Your commentary here should include a statement something like "Let's look at an example."
Where to publish“Sudden Cardiac Death during
Mountain Hiking and Downhill Skiing”
Randy Olsen
I wonder if this slide coudn't be combined with the one that follows. The comment seems to carry the message rather than the slide.
Where to publish“Sudden Cardiac Death during
Mountain Hiking and Downhill Skiing”
1. Traditional journals2. Open Access journals3. Institutional repositories
Dr. Dennis Tolley
Statistics Professor
Published an Open Access article in a traditional journal
Researching “Labor Force Participation”
◦ 60 articles in the last year - 2 with Full Text access
The Open Access article by BYU’s Dennis Tolley was cited 13 times more than the non-Open Access articles published the same year on this topic.
“OA articles compared to non-OA articles remained twice as likely to be cited in the first 4-10 months after publication…with the odds ratio increasing to 2.9 10-16 months after publication.”
Source: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157
Source: https://arl.org/lists/sparc-oaforum/Message/140.html
Peer-reviewed Freely and readily available Used more than non-OA journals Funded by processing fees and subsidies Authors retain copyright
Discipline No. of Journals
Humanities 322
Fine Arts & Communications 150
Business 68
Family Home & Social Sciences 894
Life Sciences 738
Physical & Mathematical Sciences 747
Engineering 233
Health & Human Performance 1054
Nursing 25
Law 65
Religion 57
Education 247
PLOS-Biology Online peer-reviewed Active since 2003 Open Access
ISI Impact Factor Rank: 1 (highest)
Biological Reviews Cambridge
publication Active since 1923 NOT Open Access
($420/year online) ISI Impact Factor
Rank: 2 (second highest)
Dr. Gregory Nordin
Engineering and Technology Endowed Chair Professor
Speciality: Optics
Why does Dr. Nordin favor publishing in Open Access journals?
Journal Began
Access Impact Factor Rank (2006)
Number of Greg’s articles (since 1997)
Total Citations to these articles
Applied Optics 1962 Closed 13 6 19
Journal of the Optical Society of America
1917 Closed 11 3 42
Optics Letters 1977 Closed 2 3 39
Optics Express 1997 Open 1 12 97
Type Examples
Home Page http://www.math.byu.edu/~jarvis/
E-print archive ArXiv.org / BYU ScholarsArchive
Author Fee BioMed Central / PLOS / Hindawi
Subsidized First Monday
Dual-mode Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
Delayed Western North American Naturalist
Partial The Lancet
Bibliographic Indexing ScienceDirect
Cooperative Open Journal System
Adapted from Repository66.org
• Specialties: Algebraic geometry and mathematical physics• Chair of Math department
1. Open Access repository2. Author website3. Electronic Journal
(closed, access via institutional subscription)
4. Print version
Source: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/libraries/2005/2005-04-21.open_access.html
1. Education2. Encouragement (“opt-in”)
3. Policy (“opt-out”)
Open Access &evolving scholarly communications
A Presentation to the BYUAcademic Vice President’s CouncilOctober 9, 2008
Gideon BurtonJeff Belliston
