Opening Keynote presentation by Yvonne Budden, University of Warwick, at Repository Fringe 2014.

1. Grigori Goldstein (1870-1941) (1920) “Lenin speaking at an assemble of Red Army troops
Sverdlov Square, Moscow, on 5 May 1920” – Public Domain Image
The revolution has been cancelled:
the current state of UK Open Access

2. “For their part, publishers tend to assume
that OA advocates are freeloaders or - as
ACS’s Rudy Baum appeared to imply in
2004 - dangerous socialists.”
- Richard Poynder (2014)
Poynder, R. (2014) Richard Poynder on the state of open access: Where are we?
What still needs to be done? - http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-state-of-
open-access.html

3. Revolution, n.
“An alteration, a change; esp. a
dramatic or wide-reaching change in
conditions, the state of affairs, etc.”

4. In the beginning…

5. connecting you with information,
support and your community
Disruptive technology

6. A people’s revolution?

7. Difficult
definitions

8. Revolution, n.
“Cyclical recurrence, esp. of a point or
period of time; the passing or duration of
a (usu. recurring) period of time (as a
year, a season, etc.). †by revolution, with
the passing of time; in due course.”

9. Attitudes to OA

10. Attitudes to OA - Warwick
• in favour of OA principles79.4%
• have made work open access
• Of those 67.1% used WRAP70.8%
• believe copyright of articles
should remain with the author70.4%
• keep a copy of the AAM93.5%
• are happy with CC-BY
licenses for their work48.6%

11. Attitudes to the RCUK policy - Warwick
20%
23%
13%
10%
16%
13%
5% Strongly in favour
Mildly in favour
Neutral
Mildly against
Strongly against
Don't know
Not applicable

12. Attitudes to the HEFCE policy -
Warwick
16%
26%
14%
10%
12%
19%
3%
Strongly in favour
Mildly in favour
Neutral
Mildly against
Strongly against
Don't know
Not applicable

13. Carrots and
sticks

14. Issue of ownership
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FACT_taxi.jpg

15. Five year plan

16. Swan, A and Houghton, J (2012) Going for Gold? The costs and benefits of Gold Open Access
for UK research institutions: further economic modelling. Report to the UK Open Access
Implementation Group. http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/610/ Released under the CC-BY 3.0 license
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
-1,000,000
-500,000
0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
Worldwide Gold
OA
Worldwide
Green OA
Unilateral Gold
OA
Unilateral Green
OA
GBPperannum
Worldwide adoption
of Open Access
Unilateral adoption
of Open Access

17. Free markets?

18. Revolution, n.
“Overthrow of an established
government or social order by those
previously subject to it; forcible
substitution of a new form of
government. In early use also: rebellion.”

19. All change?

20. Which hat?

21. The future of scholarly
communications is…

22. connecting you with information,
support and your community
Thanks for listening!
The revolution has been cancelled: the current
state of UK Open Access
Repository Fringe 2014,
University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 30th
July 2014
Yvonne Budden - Academic Support Manager
(Research) and Chair (UKCoRR)
y.c.budden@warwick.ac.uk
+44 2476 151275