Uts talk openaccess_week_24_october

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Why it must win, and How it will win

24 October, 2014

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Open Access? • Free!• Full-text!• Online

Academic knowledge is boxed in by expensive journals.!

Scientist meets Publisher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIY_4t-DR0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIY_4t-DR0

operating profit company industry7% Woolworths supermarkets, pokies12% BMW automobiles22% Coca-Cola adding sugar to water23% Rio Tinto mining36% Apple premium computing34% Springer scholarly publishing36% Elsevier scholarly publishing40% Wiley scholarly publishing

Thanks to Nick Scott-Samuel

http://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/scholarly-publishers-and-their-high-profits/


Thanks to Nick Scott-Samuel


$53 million in grants$52 million spent by NZ unis on subscription fees

Monopoly + = = $Profit maximization

BrokeUS$11,000 per year; !$300 for a single issue

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$10,780 per article (not including charges

for color figures)

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$85 per page

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$80 per page (introductory rate is even cheaper)

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$1350 per article

JOURNAL / PUBLISHER COST ($USD) ACCESS!

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Subscription

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Open Access

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Open Access

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Open Access

$99 per life Open Access

Open Access

• Save $$

• More impact

• Researchers can read

• Citizens, patients, public servants, journalists, small businesses can read

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The academic community is only hurting itself, and its long term public support, by keeping its knowledge behind high subscription walls -Andrew Carr

Why Open Access? • Free!• Full-text!• Online!

http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2011/07/21/Time-to-open-the-academic-vault.aspx

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• More impact



• Teachers can use?

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The academic community is only hurting itself, and its long term public support, by keeping its knowledge behind high subscription walls -Andrew Carr

Why Open Access? • Free!• Full-text!• Online!• Re-use rights

http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2011/07/21/Time-to-open-the-academic-vault.aspx

• Save $$

• More impact




• Data re-analysis

• More discoveries

• Fraud reduction

• Machines can read

• Image re-use

• Cross-pollination

• Faster cycle of work, criticism, building upon

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Why Open Access/data/code? • Free!• Full-text!• Online access!• Re-use rights

• Save $$

• More impact





• Fraud reduction • Machines can read

• Image re-use


• Faster cycle of work, criticism, modification

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• Save $$

• More impact





• Fraud reduction


• Raw data use, e.g. chemical properties

• Image re-use • Cross-pollination

• Faster cycle of work, criticism, modification


Julian Stirling et al.arXiv.org > physics > arXiv:1312.6812v1

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• Fraud reduction



• Image re-use




started January 2012

Tim Gowers

GOLD ROAD

Article Processing Charge

$3,000

$99

$1,350

•Deposit your manuscripts in the university repository

•(Even with closed journals, you often have the right to deposit your final version (e.g. Word document before typeset by publisher)

•Funders, universities should mandate this.

•Publishers will adapt, as they have in physics.

GREEN ROAD

Stevan Harnad

•Deposit your manuscripts in the university repository

•(Even with closed journals, you often have the right to deposit your final version (e.g. Word document before typeset by publisher)

•Funders, universities should mandate this.

•Publishers will adapt, as they have in physics.

GREEN ROAD

Stevan Harnad

GOLD ROAD

Article Processing Charge

$3,000

RCUK researchers to choose gold OA payment over cost-free green OA wherever the former is offered. The result, of course, will be that all journals blithely offer hybrid gold OA - HarnadAs a result, rather than reducing costs, Finch estimated that its proposal would require £38m/year of to pay APCs

$99

$1,350

http://poynder.blogspot.ca/2012/07/oa-advocate-stevan-harnad-withdraws_26.html

Requirements from funders that publications be Open Access

•NIH (US) within 12 months

•Research Councils UK within 6 months for science, 12 mos. for humanities

•HEFCE UK- must be available in an open-access form to be eligible for the post-2014 REF. In practice, this means that these outputs must be uploaded to an institutional or subject repository at the point of acceptance for publication.

•Wellcome Trust (UK) within 6 months

•final grant payment withheld if you don’t comply

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•NHMRC (Australia) within 12 months

•“publications arising from an NHMRC supported research project must be deposited into an open access institutional repository within a twelve month period from the date of publication.”

•ARC (Australia)

•You can use DP funds to pay open-access fees, but must be taken from the funds you were awarded to pay for other things.

•“Strongly encourages” open access, no teeth. Compliance rate very low.

Open Data

NHMRC: The next steps will be improving public and other researchers’ access to publicly funded data.

https://theconversation.edu.au/all-research-funded-by-nhmrc-to-be-accessible-free-of-charge-5486

https://theconversation.edu.au/all-research-funded-by-nhmrc-to-be-accessible-free-of-charge-5486

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• More impact






• Fraud reduction



• Image re-use




How open access wins Cultural change at grassroots

• Advocacy, early adopters

• Lobbying, petitions,

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Tech work at grassroots

• Altmetrics

• Streamlining repositories

Research funders feel comfortable mandating that research be open access

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