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Three arguments for open access
Mike TaylorDepartment of Earth Sciences
University of Bristol
[email protected]://svpow.com/
Three arguments for open access(or four if you count cost)
Mike TaylorDepartment of Earth Sciences
University of Bristol
[email protected]://svpow.com/
Introduction
Open access is here to stay!
Introduction
Open access is now required by many funding bodies.
Introduction
Open access is now required by many funding bodies.
Introduction
Open access is now required by many funding bodies.
Introduction
Open access is now required by many funding bodies.
Introduction
Open access has notbeen universallywelcomed byresearchers.
IntroductionIntroduction
Open access has notOpen access has notbeen universallybeen universallywelcomed bywelcomed byresearchers.researchers.
““Oh, the humanities!”Oh, the humanities!”
Introduction
We will explore three four reasons why open access is good news
Cost Justice Unity Potential
0. Cost (not that important)
0. Cost (not that important)
What does an average paper in a subscription journal cost?
According to The STM Report for 2012:
• Annual revenue of English-language journals is $9.1 billion• Total number of articles published is 1.8–1.9 million
⇒ Average cost per article is $5081Or about £3365
0. Cost (not that important)
What does an average open-access paper cost?
The Finch Report estimates are based on £1500–£2000About 45–59% of £3365
0. Cost (not that important)
What does an average open-access paper cost?
The Finch Report estimates are based on £1500–£2000About 45–59% of £3365
But more half of all open-access journals charge no APC
Of the remainder, the average APC is $906(Solomon and Björk 2012)
So true average is about $453Almost exactly £300
0. Cost (not that important)
Paper in subscription journal: $5081Paper in open-access journal: $453
Subscription paper costs eleven times as much
WARNING: all figures are very approximate!
The problem: subscription costs arespread around, so they're easy to ignore
0. Cost (not that important)
Paper in subscription journal: $5081Paper in open-access journal: $453
Subscription paper costs eleven times as much
WARNING: all figures are very approximate!
The problem: subscription costs areapread around, so they're easy to ignore
1. Justice
1. Justice
1. Justice
1. Justice
1. Justice
1. Justice
1. Justice
1. Justice
“Your job is not to get tenure.Your job is to change the world.”
— Jonathan Foley.
1. Justice
“We do basic research not onlyto know more, but to do more.”
— Heather Piwowar.
(I don't have time to go into this now,but ask me about non-commerciallicences in the break.)
2. Unity
2. Unity
“Elsevier works in partnership with the communities we serveto advance scholarship and improve lives.”
Taylor and Francis are “committed to the widest distribution ofour journals to not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.”
Oxford University Press have an “objectiveof excellence in research, scholarship,and education by publishing worldwide.”
Cambridge University Press want “to furtherthe [...] objective of advancing learning,knowledge and research.”
2. Unity
FASTR bill (Fair Access to Science and Technology Research)
Association of College andResearch Libraries (ACRL):
“ACRL joined other national and regional library, publishing, research and advocacy organizations in a letter thanking members of Congress who introduced the bill.”
Association of AmericanPublishers (AAP):
“Different Name, SameBoondoggle […] unnecessaryand a waste of federalresources […] would addsignificant, unspecified,ongoing costs […] squanderfederal employees’ timewith busywork.”
2. Unity2. Unity
2. Unity2. Unity
2. Unity
“Publish” means “make public”.
Tragic irony:most “publishers” strive for the opposite.
2. Unity
“Publish” means “make public”.
Tragic irony:most “publishers” strive for the opposite.
I am not having a go at publishers.
This is an inevitable consequence ofa barrier-based business model.
Publication is a service.
Reconsider what publication actually is:
If we pay publishers for the work they do,they don't need to own the results.
No more lawsuits!
2. Unity
Pay publishers to publish.
Obvious solution:
This is exactly what “Gold open access” does.
2. Unity
3. Potential
3. Potential
What will open access enable us to do?
3. Potential
What will open access enable us to do?
We don't know!
3. Potential
“I soon learned that many of the papers I was interested in reading were hidden behind expensive pay walls. I convinced my mom to use her credit card for a few [...]
Luckily I was able to convince my mom to finance some more articles I needed andI learned to try different ways of circumventing the pay walls.”
— Jack Andraka.
3. Potential
“10 million reactions a year published in articles. Mining tools can process many of them. You can find out what compounds cause cancer, and which ones cure it.
It's stalled because we need the publishedresearch to instruct the machines and weare legally prevented from using it.”
— Peter Murray-Rust,Cambridge.
3. Potential
3. Potential
3. Potential
3. Potential
3. Potential
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Summary
Open access publishing …
… costs a tenth as much as the current arrangements… fulfils our moral obligation to society… realigns publishers' goals with everyone else's… opens the door to innovations we can't imagine
Three arguments for open access(or four if you count cost)
Mike TaylorDepartment of Earth Sciences
University of Bristol
[email protected]://svpow.com/