The international open access landscape
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The international open access landscape
Carrie Calder Head of Marketing,
BioMed Central
Scope• The open access landscape and its
growth
• Open access and impact
• Managing the cost of OA publishing
• The future…
Where is open access in 2010?
• There are over 5600 open access journals in the DOAJ
• Over 1000 open access journals are indexed by ISI
• Open access to research is now mandated in over 100
institutions and by 45 funders.
• Submissions to OA journals grew by over 44% between
2008 and 2009
• Open access firmly part of the mainstream..
Developments within OA landscape
Developments within OA landscape
• Mandates and policies
• Journals
• Submissions
Open access policies
30/06/2008 31/03/2009 03/31/2010
Departmental 4 6 21
Funder 23 35 44
Institutional 20 31 87
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Growth in mandatesN
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Data courtesy of www.openscholarship.org
Policy highlights• 46 funder policies including RCUK,
Wellcome Trust, NIH Public Access Policy
• Institutional policies - 3 times as many policies than a year ago - Compact for open-access publishing equity (COPE)- Number of policies within Africa?....
Information on all policies available at www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
Call to action….
Open access journals
3/31/2006 3/31/2007 3/31/2008 31/03/2009 03/31/2010
No. of journals 2158 2618 3302 3999 4863
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Growth of journals in the DOAJ
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Increase in journals
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Total journals 129 143 169 178 195 205
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Growth in BioMed Central journal portfo-lio
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BioMed Central submissions
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Submissions 6909 10806 15118 17206 21062 27128 35000
2500
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12500
17500
22500
27500
32500
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6909
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1511817206
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BioMed Central growth in submissions
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Open access and impact
Open access and impact
• Myths of OA
• Challenges to prove quality
• Impact Factors hard for new journals
BioMed Central journals with Impact Factors
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Journals with IFs 0 1 3 6 10 15 25 27 42 57 77
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Official Impact Factors
Open access having impact
• Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date.- 27 of 31 show open access having a positive citation advantage
- Where positive advantage - increase in citations varying from -5 to 600%
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/
Article visibility
Increasing impact for a society journal
The cost of open access publishing
How do the finances work?• Article-processing charge (APC)
Covers– Editorial: handling of manuscripts– Technical: development, maintenance and operation of
online journal system– Production: Formatting and markup of articles, inclusion in
indexing services– Marketing: Making sure readers and authors know about
the journal– Customer service: Responding to authors/readers
• Web technology is used to keep costs low
Open access publication charges
• BioMed Central APC comparison page lists publishers’ open access charges
• BioMed Central’s charges (~£995 / $1620) are at the lower end
• For comparison, traditional publishers often charge $3000 or more for open access option, in addition to subscription charges
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors /apccomparison
Article-processing charges - who pays?
• Authors may pay out of grant funds• Some funders provide a central fund for
open access publishing costs• Institutions may cover costs centrally,
on behalf of their authors, via BioMed Central Institutional Membership
• Some titles cover costs themselves
Waiver fund
Institutional Membership
• Supporter MembershipInstitution pays a flat fee, authors pay a discounted Article Processing Charge
• Prepay MembershipInstitution covers cost of publication centrally, at a discounted rate
• Shared Support MembershipInstitution and author share the cost the APC equally
BioMed Central Members
Future of open access…
Open access article share
Open access publishing,then and now…
2000 2010
And more…
Conclusions
• Open access journals are proving to offer impact
• Variety of payment routes for APCs being explored
• Open access movement going from strength to
strength
• So much scope for more growth still, especially within
Africa
• CALL TO ACTION: what could you do?
Thank you