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NPG Library Advisory MeetingApril 2010
Open Access &
Academic Research LibrariesIn North America
The Premise of Open Access
Information wants to be free or does it? Phrase coined by Stewart Brand in 1984 at the first Hacker's Conference The actual quote: "On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."
Association Support for Open Access
Three academic research initiatives supporting open access in North America: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Association of Research Libraries Association of College & Research Libraries
The ARL Leaders for Open Access
California Digital Library: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/openaccess.html Cornell University:http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/openaccess/
University of Michigan: https://open.umich.edu/
Barriers in North America
NIH-only major mandate
Impact factors still not high enough (caveat--they are climbing)
Few university mandates (again growing demand by higher education institutions)
No concerted national effort
Forces Encouraging Change
Financial crisis More mandates at both private & public UniversitiesMore faculty /researcher awareness of the costs of publishing
Impact factors growing for select OA publishers (PLoS, BMC)
Future of OA in the ARL Libraries
Libraries will partner with hybrid options
Any OA Publisher who can publish fast and deliver impact factor will continue to grow
Fees will need to be reasonable and within market scale
