Key findings from the SOAP Project survey on open access publishing

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First results of the SOAP Project
Open Access facts:
What publishers offer, What researchers want
Berlin8 Open Access Conference – Beijing – October 26th, 2010
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Peter Igo-Kemenes, Deborah Kahn, Simon Lambert, Anja Lengenfelder,
Chris Leonard, Salvatore Mele, Panayiota Polydoratou, David Ross,
Sergio Ruiz-Perez, Ralf Schimmer, Mark Swaisland and Wim van der Stelt
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Outline
•  About the project
•  Highlights from a study of OA journals today
•  Results from a large-scale survey of researchers
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Outline
•  Results from a large-scale survey
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SOAP
Study of Open Access Publishing
• Funded by the European Commission
• Framework Program 7 – Science and Society
• Scheduled to run from March 2009 to February 2011
• Compare and contrast supply/demand for OA publishing
• Publishers, Libraries, Funding Agencies
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Outline
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A study of OA journals today
•  Assess the supply of OA publishing outlets today
•  Methodology (snapshot as of mid 2009)
–  Existing directories/databases DOAJ/SCOPUS, ISI, EZB, SCImago
–  Trawl through thousands of web pages
•  Answer key questions
–  How many articles, journals, publishers?
–  In which discipline, with which license?
–  Where does the money come from?
–  …
•  Some highlights in the following pages
•  Full results at http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0506
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How many OA articles/journals?
• English language journals only
• 90% of publishers <100 articles/year and 1/3 of total
• 10% of publishers publish 2/3 of the total
• 14 “large publishers”:
- 40K articles/year in 616 journals, 30% of the total
- 6 commercial, 6 no-profit, 2 N/A
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How many? About 8-10% !
• English language journals only
• 90% of publishers <100 articles/year and 1/3 of total
• 10% of publishers publish 2/3 of the total
• 14 “large publishers”:
- 40K articles/year in 616 journals, 30% of the total
- 6 commercial, 6 no-profit, 2 N/A
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About 8-10% of articles/year
is published in Open Access
and hybrid Open Access
journals

The 14 “large” publishers
>1000 articles or >50 journals
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About what?
• 2/3 of journals in STM; 1/3 in SSH
• 3/4 of articles in STM; 1/4 in SSH
• “Large publisher” almost exclusively STM
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Licensing practices
• 1/2 of “Large” publishers use Creative Commons
• 82% CC-by, 18% CC-by-nc
• 72% of journals, 71% of articles
• “Other” publishers
• 73% have license information on their web pages
• 21% use some CC version
• 10% state “authors retains copyright”
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Presence of income sources
NB – No information on income amount
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Journalswiththatincomesource
Large publishers Other publishers
APC
Membership
Advertisement
Sponsorship
Subscription
Hard copies
Page charges
Re-prints
Conference fee
Services

Outline
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• 23 Questions
• Analysis of the first 3 months of data
• Dissemination through:
- SOAP partners
- Publishers mailing lists
- Library and Open Access mailing lists
• Estimate dissemination to >1.5 million people
• 54’000 answers and counting
• Data will be open in January-February 2011
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The SOAP survey

Are you involved in research?
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How many articles have you published ?
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38’358
Focus on: published researchers
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Who ?
Beliefs
Actions
Preliminary results
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Who ?
- Demographics
Beliefs
- Likes OA? Why? Why not?
Actions
- Publishes OA? Why not?
- Who pays? How? How easy?
Preliminary results
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Who ?
Beliefs
Actions
Preliminary results
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Distribution by country
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Distribution by disciplines
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Who ?
Beliefs
Actions
Preliminary results
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No large differences according to seniority, number of articles
Small country-to-country variations
Would OA journals be
beneficial for your field?
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Why?
>22’000 answers, 1/2 million words
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Why yes? (n=6984)
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Scientific community benefit
Public good
Financial issues
Accessibility
Individual benefit
Other

Why not? (n=1611)
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19%
17%
14%
11%
11%
10%
7%
6%
4%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
Low quality
No need
Presence and amount of fees
Other
Fairness/vanity press
Unsustainable for publication and society
Green oa enough
No/bad peer-review
Profit driven

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By field

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Yes

Beliefs about OA – positive
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1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree

Beliefs about OA – neutral
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Beliefs about OA – negative
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Who ?
Beliefs
Actions
Preliminary results
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How many OA articles have you
published in the last 5 years?
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Was there a reason
not to publish OA?
42% gave a reason; >4000 answers; 60’000 words
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Funding
Journal performance
Other
Accessibility
Ignorence/unawarness
Habits
"Next time"

Which fee did you pay for
your last OA article?
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How was this fee covered?
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By field

Included in research funds
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I paid myself
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By country

Included in research funds
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My institution paid
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How easy was it to obtain funds?
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Conclusions
• Strive to provide facts on which to base decisions
(EC, publishers, libraries, funding agencies)
• Key findings so far:
- 90% scientists think OA journals are a good thing
- BUT only 8-10% of articles is in OA journals
- main barriers are lack of funds (40%) and journal
quality/prestige (30%)
• Further analysis of the data ongoing
• Data to be OPEN in January/February

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Thank you!
Project team: info@project-soap.eu
Co-ordinator: Salvatore.Mele@cern.ch
Website: http://soap-fp7.eu
Final results to be presented in
Berlin, January 13th, 2011
http://soap-fp7.eu/soap-symposium
Including hands-on session on using the data

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