3. Universities are spending a LOT for
electronic serials
Source: IPEDS (INTEGRATED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION DATA SYSTEM)
~$10M/year
~$6M/year
~$7M/year
8. Source: Originally published in Archambault, E., et al. 2013. Proportion of Open Access Peer-Reviewed Papers at the
European and World Levels—2004-2011. Produced by Science-Metrix for the European Commission.
1science’s origins
the tipping point
9. Challenges met by OA
initiatives and movement
“Where can we find it all?”
“How can we publish?”
“How can we assess quality?”
“Can we replace part of our
subscriptions with OA content?
If so, how?”
10. We built 3 complementary
products to address the cost
and accessibility issues
11. OA papers
discovery
Custom-made reports to increase subscriptions’
cost-effectiveness and identify institutional
strengths
OA papers global
discovery
&virtual repository
A SOLUTION TO HELP EMBRACE OA MORE ACTIVELY
12. Our biggest challenges
Build a kick a**
engineering team in
Montreal’s
saturated recruiting
market
Data treatment and
quality validation
Release a big data
product within 12
months
14. Why would I work for you ?
Simon Sinek’s TED talk. The golden circle.
15. Why?
We believe institution’s access to knowledge
should be easier and cheaper
By facilitating the flow of knowledge thanks to
the open access movement and technology
How?
What?
oaFindr, oaFigr and oaFoldr
1science provides a lot of data: articles, references and citations, metadata. The process of retrieving all this data and to ensure high quality of the results involves harvesting, deduplication and election.