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Transcript of 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
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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#
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$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:
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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
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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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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.”
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The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574
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Publishing is big business…
39%
40-50%
Is there a reason publishing should be
this expensive?
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http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200
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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?
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Free, immediate online access
to scientific & scholarly articles
with full reuse rights
Budapest Open Access Initiative
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Two paths to Open Access
Self-
archiving
Open Access
Journals
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X 2,000
1. Publish (almost) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository
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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
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Setting the default
to Open – through
advocacy
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<Start Open Access Button>
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</Start Open Access Button>
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1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits
over the past 4.5 years
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Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014
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bit.ly/OAexplained
Advocate for
Open Access within
scholarly societies
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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.
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June 25, 2012
But what can you do?
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http://www.sparc.arl.org/news/2014-OA-Week-Kickoff
Summary
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• 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?
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Thank you!
@mcarthur_joe
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