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First results of the SOAP Project Open Access facts: What publishers offer, What researchers want Suenje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Bettina Goerner, Robert Darby, Jenni Hyppoelae, 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 BMC, CERN, MPDL, SAGE, Springer and STFC Presented at Berlin8 Open Access Conference – Beijing – October 26th, 2010 XXXth Charleston Conference – Charleston – November 5th, 2010 UNICA seminar – Lisbon – November 9th, 2010 LondonOnline – London – November 29th, 2010 project-soap.eu

Outline •  About the project •  Highlights from a study of OA journals today •  Results from a large-scale survey of researchers soap-fp7.eu 2

Outline •  About the project •  Highlights from a study of OA journals today •  Results from a large-scale survey soap-fp7.eu 3

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 soap-fp7.eu 4

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 soap-fp7.eu 6

How many OA articles/journals? !"#$%&'()*#+',(-.$/ *#+',(-.$(/ 0"1&'/2"#$%&'(/ 0"1&'/&$1,3'.()4.&$/ 5/ 56785/ 9:/;/ 56785/ <=/;/ 7>6??=/ <</;/ 8/1"/9/ 5=5/ 9/;/ @95/ 5=/;/ 8<6@@8/ 88/;/ 5:/1"/@9/ 58/ 5/;/ 59:/ =/;/ 58678>/ 55/;/ A/<:/ </ B5/;/ <>7/ 59/;/ 5@69>5/ 5>/;/ 0"1&'/ 56?:9/ / 86?>?/ / 5576??>/ / •  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 soap-fp7.eu 7

How many? About 8-10% ! About 8-10% of articles/year is published in Open Access and hybrid Open Access •  English language journals only journals •  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 soap-fp7.eu 8

The 14 “large” publishers >1000 articles or >50 journals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soap-fp7.eu 9

About what? !"#$%&'(&)'%*+,-( ."#/012%,1( 3+",4)/1( 5,'0&/%16-%),( &7'(8(92%:01',-;(.2-10&1()4<(=%&24+/+*-( ABC( DCE( FGH( IHE( AA;IFJ( DJE( >04&/"<%1(?)'2%:)'0&1()4<(51',+4+:-@( #0+(8(K0+/+*-()4<(L0M%(!&0%4&%1( AFF( DCE( FAA( IHE( DG;NBN( DIE( :%<(8(?%<0&04%()4<(O%)/'2(!&0%4&%1( GCB( DDE( JCB( DJE( AD;JNH( DJE( 1+&(8(!+&0)/(!&0%4&%1( FAA( DHE( BII( DDE( IA;FCB( IDE( 2":(8(O":)40'0%1( DFJ( IGE( DNB( ICE( F;CAC( G(E( *%4(8(P%4%,)/(Q+,R1( BA( AE( BA( DE( N;FGA( BE( =+')/! I;JCH( ( D;JAJ( ( IIB;JJA( ( ! •  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 soap-fp7.eu 10

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” soap-fp7.eu 11

Presence of income sources NB – No information on income amount APC Subscription Journals with that income source Membership Advertisement Sponsorship Hard copies Page charges Re-prints Conference fee Services Large publishers Other publishers soap-fp7.eu 12

The SOAP survey •  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 soap-fp7.eu 14

Are you involved in research? soap-fp7.eu 15

How many articles have you published ? soap-fp7.eu 16

Focus on: published researchers 38’358 soap-fp7.eu 17

Preliminary results Who ? Beliefs Actions soap-fp7.eu 18

Preliminary results Who ? - Demographics Beliefs - Likes OA? Why? Why not? Actions - Publishes OA? Why not? - Who pays? How? How easy? soap-fp7.eu 19

Demographics soap-fp7.eu 21

Distribution by country soap-fp7.eu 22

Distribution by disciplines soap-fp7.eu 23

Would OA journals be beneficial for your field? No large differences according to seniority, number of articles Small country-to-country variations soap-fp7.eu 25

Why? >22’000 answers, 1/2 million words soap-fp7.eu 26

Why yes? (n=6984) 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% Scientific community benefit Public good Financial issues Accessibility Individual benefit Other soap-fp7.eu 27

Why not? (n=1611) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Low quality 19% No need 17% Presence and amount of fees 14% Other 11% Fairness/vanity press 11% Unsustainable for publication and society 10% Green oa enough 7% No/bad peer-review 6% Profit driven 4% soap-fp7.eu 28

Would OA journals be beneficial for your field? By field soap-fp7.eu 29

Would OA journals be beneficial for your field? Yes soap-fp7.eu 30

Beliefs about OA – positive 1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree soap-fp7.eu 31

Beliefs about OA – neutral 1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree soap-fp7.eu 32

Beliefs about OA – negative 1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree soap-fp7.eu 33

How many OA articles have you published in the last 5 years? soap-fp7.eu 35

Was there a reason not to publish OA? 42% gave a reason; >4000 answers; 60’000 words 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Funding Journal performance Other Accessibility Ignorence/unawarness Habits "Next time" soap-fp7.eu 36

Which fee did you pay for your last OA article? soap-fp7.eu 37

How was this fee covered? soap-fp7.eu 38

How was this fee covered? By field soap-fp7.eu 39

How was this fee covered? Included in research funds soap-fp7.eu 40

How was this fee covered? I paid myself soap-fp7.eu 41

How was this fee covered? By country soap-fp7.eu 42

How was this fee covered? Included in research funds soap-fp7.eu 43

How was this fee covered? My institution paid soap-fp7.eu 44

How easy was it to obtain funds? soap-fp7.eu 45

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 soap-fp7.eu 49

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 project-soap.eu Including hands-on session on using the data

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