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Open Access Publishing
Public Peer-Review
Two-Stage Publication Process
Worldwide Archiving + Indexing
Open Access Publishing & Public Peer-Review
Martin Rasmussen
Copernicus Publications | March 2012
Content
Copernicus Publications
What is Gold OA?
Reasons for Gold OA
Creative Commons Attribution License
Costs of OA Publishing
Financing through Publication Charges
Other Business Models
Where does the Money come from?
What about the Poor and the Start up Phase?
What about the Quality?
Copernicus Publications
1988 Foundation of the Copernicus Gesellschaft Conferences
1994 Copernicus Publications, first (niche) journal
2001 first Open Access journal
OA transformation of the other journals until 2004 (2008)
2011: 25 Open Access journals and 14 access-reviewed scientific discussion forums
120,000 pages and 5,000 papers published in 2011
Based in Göttingen, 35 employees
Co-founder of OASPA
What is Gold OA?
Green OA is free access to pre- or postprints
Gold OA provides free access to the article source (e.g. journal)
Gold OA includes the financing of peer-review, publication & archiving
Investigation of content from 30k journals (ISI and Scopus)
26% OA content
14% green – 12% gold
Reasons for Gold OA?
Gold OA finances OA and the peer-review
49% Publishers with no or non-peer-reviewed OA content (Sherpa/Romeo)
Gold OA as alternative to the subscription crisis
STM Subscriptions increased by 400% in 20 years
Green OA needs subscriptions
Copyright stays with the author
Creative Commons License
Unlimited distribution and archiving/delivering
Creative Commons Attribution License
Anyone is free:
to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to Remix — to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
Attribution. The original authors must be given credit.
Cost Savings I: Subscription Management
Cost Savings II: Print/Storage Offset
Costs of OA Publishing
“Free is ambiguous. We mean free for readers, not free for producers”
(Budapest OA Initiative)
Value of an Article
Hindawi 500–1,100 €
Copernicus 500–1,200 €
BioMed Central 500–1,700 €
PLoS 900–2,000 €
Springer Open Choice: 2,000 € (3,000 $)
Financing through Publication Charges
Author-pay model
Page vs. Article Charges
Submission vs. Publication Charges
Extra charges for supplements, colour, article length
Other Business Models
Hybrid model
Subscription journal with OA to articles extra fee
Springer Open Choice 2,000 € double payment?
20% of Gold OA in subscription journals
Community-fee model
Institutional ownership/sponsorship 70% OA journals without fees
Where does the Money come from?
Research budgets (author – employer)
Explicit publication charges
Implicit from overheads
Institutional memberships (institution – publisher)
Pre-payment Budget
Payment per Article
Copernicus: MPG, CNRS, SUB
Funding agencies (author – agency)
DFG 750 € per year
FWF, SNF
“When a scientist doesn't have a subscription, he or she can nonetheless get information about the article
When a scientist doesn't have the funds to publish an article, the article does not appear
That’s more than an inconvenience.”
(John Ewing, Nature)
Charges are not new STM and America
What about the Poor and the Start up Phase?
Poorer countries
Subscription based: no access but publication
Gold OA: access but no publication
Explicit budget to subsidize authors
10% pages at Copernicus Publications
To be assigned by the chief editors
OA Start up
Charges upon establishment ISI SCIE
Subsidization of 2-3 years
Average journal: 45k to 75k €
OA has the Potential to enhance the Quality!
Submitted manuscripts can be OA
Reviewer reports can be OA
Manuscripts can be discussed OA
The accepted publication can be OA
What about the Quality?
Author
Author Comments
5
Public Peer-Review & Interactive Public Discussion
Editor
Scientific Community
Short Comments
5
1st Stage(Discussion
Forum)
Author1
1. Submission
Referees
2
2. Access Review
3
3. Technical Corrections
Discussion Paper
4
4. Publication as D-paper
5
Referee Comments
5. Discussion Comments
6
6. Revision
7Editor
7. Revised Submission
88. Peer-Review Completion
9
Final Revised Paper
2nd Stage(Journal)
9. Final Revised Publication
Advantages of Public Peer-Review & Discussion
Rapid AND Thorough
Rapid publication as discussion paper
Thorough peer-review by discussion & revision
Win for Authors, Reviewers & Readers
Direct feedback & public recognition for authors;
Higher quality submissions save reviewer capacities;
Documentation of the review for readers.
