open access publishing – a finnish perspective

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Open Access publishing – a Finnish perspective

Prof. Bo-Christer Björk

HANKEN

chairman of the FinnOA working group

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Self-publishing

Main OA channels

Subject-specific repositories

Institutional repositories

OA Journals

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Popularity of main OA channels

OA Journals

Subject-specific repositories

Institutional repositories

Self-publishing

~ 4 % in titles, 1 % in articles

Important in a few areas

Rapidly increasing interest

Most common channel

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OA research activities at Hanken

• Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange– EC funding 2002-2004

– seven partners from six countries

– Life-cycle costs, study of barriers

• Open Access Communication for Science – Academy of Finland funding 2004 – 2007

– HANKEN, HKKK

– Economics, user behaviour, copyrigth issues

OACS

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Journal Review Policy

Manuscript

Copyeditedmanuscript

Reviewers Comments

ReviewersTheEditor The

ResearcherPublisher

Copyrigth agreement

Accepted Manuscript

Choice of reviewers

Rejected manuscript

Copyrigth agreement10 mk

Manage the review process

20 mk

Review Manuscript

30 mk

Revise Manuscript40 mk

Negociate copyright

50 mk

Copyedit Article

Openaccess

Current publisher(3 cases)

First copy costexcluding costs for thereview process

120€ 448€ - 1000€

Cost for the reviewprocess (editor’sshare)

450€ 433 - 687€

General costs perarticle

585€ 944 - 1670€

Total cost per article 1155€ 1938€ - 3270€

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Barriers for increased use of OA?

Journals Subject specific repositories

Institutional repositories

Legal framework

IT-infrastructure

Business model

Indexing

Academic reward system

Marketing and critical mass

Low Medium Medium

Medium Medium Medium

High Medium Low

Medium Low High

High Low Medium

High High High

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How to overcome the barriers: legal framework

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How to overcome the barriers: IT-infrastructure

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How to overcome the barriers:journal business models

• Paid Access– Pay per view

– Individual title subscription

– Big deals

• Open Access– Community service

– Advertising

– Grants

– Author charges

– Institutional membership

• Hybrid models– Delayed OA

– Limited functionality OA

– Individual article OA

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An interesting example: Scielo!

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How to overcome the barriers: Indexing

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How to overcome the barriers: Academic reward system

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How to overcome the barriers: Marketing and critical mass

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The Finnish situation

• Inflow of publications from abroad– Making OA material more visible in the portals of

Academic libraries

• Publications by Finnish academics– Supporting the creation of Finnish institutional

repositories

– Populating them with output by Finnish academics

• OA-journals published in Finland– Creating an infrastructure so that journals can go

electronic using OA business models

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