fostering open access: strategies and activities of snsf open access day at epfl, october, 24, 2013...

Fostering Open Access: Strategies and Activities of SNSFOpen Access Day at EPFL, October, 24, 2013

Dr Daniel Höchli, Director of the Administrative Offices

SNSF Research creates knowledge.

Contents

1. Towards a new publication system

2. Open Access: principles and policy of SNSF

3. Outlook and discussion: Open Science


1. Towards a new publication system


The traditional publication system

Researchers Publishers

Funders Institutions

organising peer review, copy

editing, printing

providing access

grants;subsidising

print of monographs

paying subscription

fees

submission of papers;effecting peer review

Libraries


A Tom Sawyer Economy ?

• Publishers making profits out of the unpaid labor of authors, editors and referees

• Competition between libraries and publishers on public funds

• Big deals improved access to research results, but leading to inefficiency and profit maximisation in the long run

• Digitalisation enables cost-saving publishing what requires new business models

Odlyzko (2013): http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1105


The green road (self-archiving)



organising peer review, copy

editing, printing

submission; effecting

peer review

running

grants;subsidising

print of monographs; OA mandate

paying subscription

fees

Repositories

providing access

Readers

self-archiving

paying

access fees

Libraries


Does the green road work well ?

• Researchers are reluctant to self-archive

• Constraints set by publishers

• Quality assurance and citing issues related to different versions (pre-prints, post-prints, Publishers pdfs)

• Subscription fees persist on high level

• Additional costs to run repositories


The gold road



organising peer review, copy editing,

print on demand

effecting peer review;submission; paying APCs

subsidising APCs

Readers

grants includingsubsidies for APCs;

subsidising OA monographs ?

block grants ?

providing access

Libraries

paying membership fees for all affiliated

researchers


The diamond road



organising peer review, copy editing,

print on demand

effecting peer review;submission; paying APCs

subsidising APCs

Readers

grants includingsubsidies for APCs;

subsidising OA monographs ?

block grants ?

providing access

Libraries

paying membership fees for all affiliated

researchers

new cost-saving

publishing models


Will the gold road work well ?

• Researchers are reluctant to publish in Open Access

• Strategic attitude of publishers to save profits:

• double-dipping with hybrid models

• Replacing expensive subscription fees by expensive article processing charges (APCs) ?

• Doubts about quality assurance (authors pay APCs for beeing published)


Assuring authors of OA is important

http://oa.mpg.de/files/2010/04/publwege_en.jpg


Why are researchers reluctant to publish in Open Access ?

• Impact factor critical for career development

• Costs for OA publishing

• Quality and reliability of OA journals

• No remuneration for researchers publishing in OA(e.g. books, educational material)

http://openscience.com/why-scientists-are-reluctant-to-publish-in-open-access


What is needed ?

• Improving reputation of OA journals by e.g.

• convincing renouned senior researchers to publish in OA journals

• Supporting measures to cover costs for OA publishing

• Quality assurance mechanisms for repositories and OA journals

• Incentives for researchers to publish in OA; e.g.:

• additional value by additional services

• consideration for evaluation


Positions in the transition process

Publishers:

• still searching for their future role

• prevalent resistance to systemic change

• start engaging with new business models

Scientific Community:

• limited public funds and changing cash flows

• cost-saving publishing models to prefer

• no responsibility to save publishers


2. OA: principles and policy of SNSF


SNSF’s princples regarding Open Access

Green Road and Gold Road as well as any other emerging strategy for the transition to full Open Access are welcome, if they contain:

• Free choice of researchers where to publish

• Quality assurance mechanisms (e.g. peer review)

• Highest access and dissemination of research results

• Cost-saving publication models


SNSF’s commitment to Open Access

SNSF is committed

• to promote Open Access

• in his own sphere of competence

• together with his national and international partners


Open Access mandate since 2008

• All research results funded by the SNSF (publications)

• Monographs and editions exempt from OA provisions

• Self-archiving (green road): repository or web

• If possible: publisher’s pdf or post-print before pre-print (quality assurance, citation ability)

• If OA publication is verifiably impossible by reason of technical, legal or contractual obstacles: inform SNSF (obligation fulfilled)


Revised Open Access policy of SNSF(as of 1 October 2013)

• SNSF encourages researchers to opt for the Gold Road where possible (no obligation to the Gold Road).

• Costs of publication in a purely OA journal with an academically acknowledged level of quality can be claimed from the agreed project funding up to a limit of CHF 3000 per publication during the project lifetime.

• Hybrid models are excluded.

• Coming into effect on 1 October 2013 and provisionally limited until 31 December 2016. Applies equally to projects that are already running on 1 October 2013.

• Green Road: embargo periods should preferably not exceed 6 months in general


International coordination

• Science Europe working groups on Open Access to publications and to research data

• Global Research Council Action Plan on Open Access


3. Outlook and discussion: Open Science


Development towards Open Science gains political support

OA-Days 1./2.10.2013 Hamburg

«Open Access shouldn’t be considered as an isolated topic, but as part of an overall development towards Open Science. Just the contextualisation of Open Access publications with research data and Open Educational Material, embedded in social networks breaks the ground.»

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news556570


e.g. ResearchGate.net

• platform built by scientists for scientists in 2008

• to share publications and data, to connect, discuss and collaborate with colleagues, providing statistics and metrics about research, offering research-focused job board

• over 3 million researchers have already joined sharing over 50 million abstracts and over 11 million full texts

-> Open Science ?

• signing-up restricted to researchers

• no public access to research results


Open Science: a realistic vision ?


Readers

grants including

support forpublishing activities

• submitting• effecting quality control• publishing• providing access• discussing• collaborating• assessing / ranking

providing access

supportingservices

Libraries

Providers

running / paying for supportingServices

contributingto supporting

services ?

Researchers in social networks


SNSF web dossier

Dossier Open Access:

http://www.snf.ch/E/current/Dossiers/Pages/open-access.aspx

Person in charge of Open Access:

F. Jeker: [email protected]


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