Latest developments in Open Access

Matthew CockerillManaging Director, BioMed Central

1st December 2009Online Information, Olympia, London

About BioMed Central

Largest publisher of peer-reviewed open access research journals

Launched first open access journal in 2000 Acquired by Springer in October 2008 Now publishes 205 OA titles >60,000 peer-reviewed OA articles published All research articles may be shared openly under

Creative Commons license Costs covered by 'article processing charge’ (APC)

Growth of Open Access publishing at BioMed Central

Number of manuscripts submitted to BioMed Central

journals each calendar quarter

New journals from BioMed Central

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology Alzheimer's Research & Therapy Automated Experimentation Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome Experimental & Translational Stroke Medicine Genome Medicine Gut Pathogens Head & Neck Oncology Journal of Angiogenesis Research Journal of Cheminformatics Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy &

Technology

New journals from BioMed Central

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology Alzheimer's Research & Therapy Automated Experimentation Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome Experimental & Translational Stroke Medicine Genome Medicine Gut Pathogens Head & Neck Oncology Journal of Angiogenesis Research Journal of Cheminformatics Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy &

Technology

New national-level BioMed Central memberhips

BioMed Central journals with official Thomson Reuters/ISI Impact Factors

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Society Journals

Publishing consultants working with societies are increasingly being asked about open access

BioMed Central is approached about– new OA society journals– transfer of existing society journals to the OA model

Increasing society publishing consultants’ awareness and knowledge of open access – 1–day workshop in London UK – June 2009– 1–day workshop in New York – December 2009

Example of increased visibility and impact for a society journal under OA

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

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The broader OA picture

The disruptive effect of the web Michael Nielsen - Guest

speaker at STM annual conference in Frankfurt

Thought-provoking exploration of the parallels between the turmoil in newspapers and in STM publishing

The altered economics of the web present a huge challenge for traditional business models

Several new Open Access journals from NPG

From Nature Publishing Group’s 2009 letter to customers:

The increase in funder support for open access and enhancements in publishing technology enable NPG to undertake an exciting new publishing endeavour. In April 2010 we will introduce Nature Communications, an online-only peer-reviewed journal offering rapid publication for high-quality research across the biological, chemical and physical sciences. We plan to introduce several open access journals in our academic and society journal program in 2010, the first of which will be Cell Death & Disease in January.

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

OASPA

Goals of OASPA

Represents Open Access publishers Agree common definition of Open Access Enforce high standards of editorial and

business practice amongst members Set guidelines and best practices for

publishers and institutions in payment of OA publication fees

Actvities of OASPA in 2009 Successfully encouraged several

prospective members to use standard OA licenses to enhance reusability

Ran “Meet the OA Publisher” Live Q&A Webinar during Open Access week in October (archived at OASPA website)

Hosted inaugural COASP conference, in Lund, Sweden

Held first Board elections

OASPA conference

OASPA Board members

Caroline Sutton (Co-Action Publishing) Chair Saskia Franken (Utrecht University Library/Igitur) Secretariat David Prosser (SPARC Europe) Treasurer Bo-Christer Björk (ITcon) Matthew Cockerill (BioMed Central) Gunther Eysenbach (Journal of Medical Internet Research) Mark Patterson (Public Library of Science) Paul Peters (Hindawi Publishing Corporation) David Solomon (Medical Education Online)

11 Professional Publishing Organizations 13 Scientist/Scholar Publishers 3 Strategic Partners 24 Associate Member Organizations Announcing 2 new high profile members:

OASPA Membership

“The BMJ has been an active supporter of open access from the outset. […] We are delighted to be joining OASPA.”

Fiona Godlee, Editor, British Medical Journal

“Oxford Journals is commited to fair and sustainable pricing models and we see open access as one means of achieving this. We support OASPA’s desire to share experiences and best practice for open access publishing, so we’re pleased to be able to join its community.”Martin Richardson, Managing Director, OUP (Journals Division)

Transitioning funding from subscriptions to OA

“We would like to see a commitment from publishers to show the uptake of their open access option and to adjust their subscription rates to reflect increases in income from open access fees. Some publishers, for example Oxford University Press, have already done this and we would like to see all publishers behave the same way.”

Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust

Reduced subscription fees on hybrid journals to reflect OA uptake

Similarly for OUP’s Bioinformatics

Institutional online subscription price: 2005 - GBP 1008 2010 - GBP 976

OA uptake has more than offset OUP’s subscription price increments over this time period

Building a level playing field:Central funds to cover Open

Access publication costs

OA Compact

Signatories of the OA Compact commit to:"the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and published in fee-based open-access journals and for which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds."

Founding signatories of the OA Compact

Berkeley Cornell Harvard Dartmouth MIT

All but MIT have already put Open Access funds in place

Institutional Open Access policies and repositories

Official open access policies

Mandatory OA-deposit policies from research funders led the way:E.g. NIH, HHMI, UK PubMed Central funder group

Mandatory OA-deposit policies from academic institutions have followed:E.g. Harvard, MIT, UCL

Funder OA policies

US taxpayer funded research – the debate continues

Institutional OA policies

Surge in number of institutional Open Access mandates

UK institutional OA mandates

University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Leicester Napier University Roehampton University Queen Margaret University

University of Salford University of Southampton University of Stirling University College London (UCL) University of Westminster

A substantial fraction of academic institutions now have OA repositories

Filling those OA repositories is proving to be a challenge

Open Access journals provide a source of content that can be immediately shared

BioMed Central is automating feeds to repositories using the SWORD protocol

OA journals are complementary to Institutional OA repositories

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And finally…

More new developments in Open Access

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