Open Access Publishing Overview

David Fox

UofS Technology Week

November 2, 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/10388/339

Definition

“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.”

(Suber: Open Access Overview)

“The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

(Excerpt from Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002)

Open Access – 2 strategies

Gold

• OA publishing

Green

• OA archiving

DefinitionAn open access journal is one that uses a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. Open access publications allow users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its contents without restriction

DOAJ definition (paraphrased)

OA Publishing: Who Pays?• Authors

• Granting agencies

• Institutions• In-kind support

• OA publishing funds• UCalifornia Springer pilot

• UofC, Ottawa, SFU, etc.

• COPE

Extent of OA Publishing• Directory of Open Access Journals

• “free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals”

• 5,511 OA journals published in 106 countries, including 172 from Canada

• 685 new journal titles per year since 2003

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Source: DOAJ, Oct 2010

Extent of OA Publishing

• OA journals now account for ~10% of all scholarly journal publishing*. This phenomenon has taken place just within the last 8 years.

* Refereed scholarly/academic serialsSource: Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

(Ulrichsweb).

Some Canadian OA Journals• Applied Physics Research• CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)• Canadian Journal of Sociology• Canadian Political Science Review• Journal of Distance Education• Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences• Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience • Journal of Religion and Popular Culture• Journal of Research Practice

OA Publishing Platforms•DPubS (Cornell Library and Penn State Univ. Libraries and Press)

•E-Journal (Drupal)

•Open Journal Systems (PKP, SFU)• 2000 titles in publication as of Jan 2009• supports many different e-publication models from fully open

access to fully subscription-based and various hybrids in-between• supports online peer-review• software platform for CFI/Synergies

Open Access Benefits

• Is there an OA citation advantage (OACA)?• correlation or causation? • Wagner (2010), Swan (2010)

• OA publishing accelerates dissemination of knowledge• Open Access and the Progress of Science (2007) Swan

• OA publishing liberalization of authors’ permissions?• OA publishing price competition?

Barriers to Greater Acceptance• Economic models still evolving•Concerns re. reputation, quality, impact•Concerns re. acceptability for tenure/promotion •Resistance/lobbying by commercial publishers•Bibliographic access•Other?

Future of OA Publishing?• OA is a well-established, legitimate alternative•Continued growth likely•Continued mixed economy in scholarly publishing•Where will equilibrium occur?

Library OA Initiatives• OA Blog• OA Commitment• eCommons

Some OA Resources

Open Access citation advantage: an annotated bibliography (2010) Wagner

The Open Access citation advantage: studies and results to date (2010),Swan

Ten-year cross-disciplinary comparison of the growth of Open Access and how it increases research citation impact (2005) Hajjem, Harnad & Gingras

Open Access and the progress of science (2007) Swan

(Mis)leading Open Access myths (2004?) from Open Access now, BioMed Central

Questions / Discussion

Origins of OA• “Scholarly Communication Crisis” – 1990’s

• Journal price inflation• System becoming un-sustainable

• An alternative vision• Opportunity of the Web

• Principles of OA• Budapest, Bethesda, Berlin statements - 2002, 2003• Peter Suber: Open Access Overview

Tools and Guides for Authors' Rights

SHERPA/RoMEO (Nottingham)• self-archiving permissions

SPARC Canadian Author Addendum• User Guide

•tool for retaining author’s rights

Creative Commons (CC)

• A means for authors to license a work with

“some rights reserved”• License selection tool