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Is Open Access financially viable and does it achieve wider dissemination?
Martin RichardsonManaging DirectorOxford Journals
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Why we are experimenting with Open Access
Our experiments are designed to discover whether Open Access models can achieve wider, more cost effective dissemination than subscription-based models
But in order to be widely adopted Open Access models will also need to be financially viable and accepted by authors and research funders
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The need to collect real data on:
• Effect of OA on usage
• Financial sustainability
• Author response
An evidence-based approach
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• Optional open access – Oxford Open
• Full open access – Nucleic Acids Research
• Sponsored Open Access –Evidence Based Alternative & Complementary Medicine
Open Access – three financial models
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• 54 Journals participating across a broad range of subjects
• Author charges £800/£1500 depending on whether author based at subscribing institution
• Subscription prices to be adjusted in proportion to % of pages published OA in prior year
Model 1: Optional Open Access
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Model 2: Full Open Access
• Author charge of £1250 per paper
• Discounted charge of 50% for authors from institutions with “institutional membership”
• Institutional membership rate = £1900
• Free or reduced rates for authors from developing countries
• Waivers available for other authors in case of financial hardship
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• New Journal launched 2004
• High proportion of authors from developing countries
• More than 50% non-research articles
Model 3: Sponsored Open Access
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• Print version sold on subscription
• Online version Open Access for 2004-7
• No author charges
• Fixed costs covered by sponsorship grant
• From 2008, will move to subscription-based model for non-research articles
• Author charges may be introduced in the future
Model 3: Sponsored Open Access
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Do authors want OA?
Oxford Open uptake 2006
Subject Area No. of Journals
Papers Published
OA Papers
% Uptake
Medicine 22 3945 180 5.3
Life Sciences 17 3050 321 7.6
Social Sciences & Humanities
12 405 6 1.1
Mathematics 3 304 5 1.8
Total 54 7704 512 6.6
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NAR: Daily article views for 2003-200514000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
Does OA increase usage?
Source: Ciber study, 2006
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Does OA increase usage?
All articles - 1st 12 months
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-1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Months after publication
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Source: LISU Survey 2006
Bioinformatics: downloads
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Is OA financially viable?
2003 $
2004 $
2005 $
Print Subscriptions 3355 2869 2153
Online Subscriptions 354 965 0
Institutional Membership 0 0 206
Author Charges 99 385 952
Other Income 416 428 311
4224 4647 3622
NAR: Income per article
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Nucleic Acids Research
All Authors
Research grant 55
Institutional funds 12
Departmental funds 7
Personal funds 2
Don’t know 17
Other 5
Sources of funding for paying OA charges
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• When given the choice, most authors decide not to take up OA option if asked to pay
• OA seems to generate additional access, but the amount is variable from journal to journal
• OA does not yet seem to be financially viable without some kind of subsidy
Some Tentative Conclusions…..
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CIBER - Usage analysis of journals participating in Oxford Open with uptake of 10% or more
LISU - Usage/citation analysis of NAR, Bioinformatics and Journal of Experimental Botany.
OUP - Continue to monitor financial impact of different OA models.
Experimenting with Open Access: Next Steps
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Further Information
Description of Oxford Journals OA models, FAQ’s and titles participating
www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/
Report of one-day conference presenting results of Oxford OA experiments
www.oxfordjournals.org/news/oa_report.pdf
CIBER/UCL Centre for Publishing
www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk/research.html
LISU
www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dils/lisu/index.html
JISC Conference on OA, September 2006
For further information, please contact
Martin RichardsonManaging Director
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 353780
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 353200
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