July 2014 Science Open Presentation

Open Access – What can

you do?

Joe McArthur - @mcarthur_joe

Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition

Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button

Science Open Roundtable – OKfest side event

16th July, 2014

Launched in Summer 2009.

Built around the Student Statement

on the Right to Research: access to

research is a student right

International alliance of 77 graduate &

undergraduate student organizations,

representing nearly 7 million students

www.righttoresearch.org




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€ 15.234

Prices generated with Elsevier’s pricing tool, for an institutional subscription with more than 5 users for an

academic institution in Poland with less than 10,000. Pricing tool URL:

http://www.myelsevier.com/browse/product_details.jsp?productId=ELS_AG_BS-PRD-00942#


$39,082

Robert Darnton, “The Library: Three Jeremiads,” New York Review of Books, December 23, 2010

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jeremiads

Average journal price in Health Sciences:


Chemistry

= $4,450

Physics

= $3,893

Agriculture

= $1,441

= $1,482

Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey“The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal,

April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013


Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey“The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal,

April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013


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375%

425%

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Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.

*Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward.

Graph 2

Monograph and Serial Costs

in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011* Serial Expenditures(+402%)

Monograph Expenditures(+71%)

Monographs Purchased (10%)

Publishing obscure academic journals is

that rare thing in the media industry:

“a licence to print money.”


The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574


Publishing is big business…

39%

40-50%

Is there a reason publishing should be

this expensive?



http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200


80% of research is

publicly funded

1 Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into shares,

HSBC Global Research, February 11, 2013:

https://www.research.hsbc.com/midas/Res/RDV?ao=20&key=RxArFbnG1P&n=360010.PDF

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Shouldn’t our publishing system

what we entrust to distribute the knowledge we work so hard to create

share our values?



Free, immediate online access

to scientific & scholarly articles

with full reuse rights

Budapest Open Access Initiative


Two paths to Open Access

Self-

archiving

Open Access

Journals


X 2,000

1. Publish (almost) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository


2. Publish in an open-access journal

X >9,000

www.righttoresearch.orgMcKiernan, Erin (2014): Being open as an early career researcher. figshare.

http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.954994

http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.954994


Setting the default

to Open – through

advocacy


<Start Open Access Button>



</Start Open Access Button>



1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits

over the past 4.5 years


Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014




bit.ly/OAexplained

Advocate for

Open Access within

scholarly societies


i) confirms the importance of students having access to research journals and articles as part of their training;

ii) notes the high cost to institutions and individuals when accessing scholarly literature;

iii) proposes that this could hinder medical students in their development as ‘The Doctor as the Scientist’ as well as developing an evidence based clinical approach;

iv) welcomes and endorses the Right To Research Coalition’s statement on Open Access to research literature.


June 25, 2012

But what can you do?



http://www.sparc.arl.org/news/2014-OA-Week-Kickoff

Summary


• Publish Open Access yourself

• Self Archive

• Publish Open Access

• Advocate for Open Access

• Host an OpenCon Satellite Event

• Take part in Open Access Week

• Follow the Coalition

Questions?



Thank you!

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@mcarthur_joe


www.sparc.arl.org

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.righttoresearch.org

http://www.sparc.arl.org

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July 2014 Science Open Presentation