100% Open Access - Call for Action

100 % Open Access -Call for Action

Patrick Danowski

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What is Open Access?

50% free available*

* source: 1science http://www.1science.com/oanumbr.html

Free ≠ Open

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Derivates

Berlin Declaration on Open Access

Past Journal Crisis

end 1990: big increases

well above inflation

Present

We still struggle with

subscriptions

Average price increase:

~4%

Inflation 2015 Europe: 0.23 %

US: 0.70 %

15% in Open Access Journals

Quelle: Schimmer, R., Geschuhn, K. K., & Vogler, A. (2015). Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access. doi:10.17617/1.3.

+1% per year

2100

Challenge: Scientist still publish in

established brand journals

We have to buy them

Evaluation is often based on top journals

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Idea: Transform the system

Question: How do we achieve the

transformation?

Solution: Developing

a common strategy

Austria is going forward

16 recommendations https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.51799

Reorganise publishing contracts

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Contract 2013- 2015

Access for

~700 Journals

Contract 2016- 2018

Access for

~2000 Journals

OAPublishing

of 3600

articles

Read + Publish

SpringerCompact

Q12015 Q22015

OAnonOA

Austrian Publications at Springer

Q12015 2016

Q22015 2016

Data provided by Springer

Offsetting

Subscription Fee 2016 = Subscription Fee 2015 + Increase 2016 - APCs paid 2015

2015

2016

100%

Austria IOP: Source Brigritte Kromp

103%

SubscriptionAPC

SubscriptionAPC

In Negotiation: Wiley

Deals with…

Outcome

• More OA articles

• Free license and usage rights

International cooperations infrastructure

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AT: >130.000 €

35.000.000€

0.3%

Do MonitoringPhoto by: Pietro Zanarini https://flic.kr/p/9XU6Dk

Austria alone can’t change the system

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IRELANDUNITED

KINGDOM

PORTUGALMADRID

FRANCE ITALY

BELGIUM

NETHERLANDS

GERMANY

DENMARK

FINNLANDSWEDEN

ESTONIA

LATVIA

LITHUANIA

POLAND

ROMANIA

AUSTRIASLOVAKIA

CHECH REP

HUNGARY

CYPRUS

BULGARIA

GREECE

CROATIA

SLOVENIA

50% OA IN 2020100% OA IN 2025

100% OA IN 2025

AMSTERDAM CALL FOR ACTION 100% OA FOR ALL PUBLICLY FUNDED

BY 2020

100% OA IN 2025

100% OA IN 2022

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OA 2020

• transform scholarly journals from subscription to OA publishing

• support new and improved forms of OA publishing.

• re-organize the underlying cash flows, to establish transparency […]

Librarians can take action …

Let us transform the system

Join the movement!http://www.oa2020.org

patrick.danowski@ist.ac.at