Opening Our Scholarship

Open Access & evolving scholarly communications A Presentation to the BYU Academic Vice President’s Council October 9, 2008 Gideon Burton Jeff Belliston

Economics of publishing
Digital context for scholarship

1. Advantages and publishing options 2. Author rights 3. Institutional repository

Digital
Online
Free of charge
Free of most copyright and licensing restrictions
Source: Peter Suber, “Open Access Overview” http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Research and Writing
Peer Review Publication

No longer the beginning or ending point for scholarship

Scriptorium Printing Press

“ There is nothing more necessary for promoting the improvement of Philosophical Matters, than the communicating — [of] such things as are discovered or put in practice by others; it is therefore thought fit to employ the Press.” –Henry Oldenburg, Philosophical Transactions , 1665

Restriction Makes Possible
Number of publications Quality control / prestige
Price / Subscription Cover publishing costs
Give up copyright Exclusive access via publisher

Restriction Negative Result
Number of publications Less published
Price / Subscription Less circulated
Give up copyright Less used

Academic presses closing
Reduced subsidies for university presses
Fewer titles per press
Smaller print runs

North American Research Library Serial & Monograph Costs, 1986-2003 (ARL Statistics)

Indexed, but not available
Copyright restricts re-use
Classroom
Global access

Digital Publishing Printing Press

Restricted Access
Open Access

“ A commitment to the value and quality of research carries with it a responsibility to extend the circulation of such work as far as possible and ideally to all who are interested in it and all who might profit by it.”
– John Willinsky, The Access Principle (MIT Press, 2005)

Where to publish “Sudden Cardiac Death during Mountain Hiking and Downhill Skiing”

1. Traditional journals
2. Open Access journals
3. Institutional repositories

Dr. Dennis Tolley
Statistics Professor
Published an Open Access article in a traditional journal

Researching “Labor Force Participation”
60 articles in the last year - 2 with Full Text access

The Open Access article by BYU’s Dennis Tolley was cited 13 times more than the non-Open Access articles published the same year on this topic.

“ OA articles compared to non-OA articles remained twice as likely to be cited in the first 4-10 months after publication…with the odds ratio increasing to 2.9 10-16 months after publication.”
Source: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157

Source: https://arl.org/lists/sparc-oaforum/Message/140.html

Peer-reviewed
Freely and readily available
Used more than non-OA journals
Funded by processing fees and subsidies
Authors retain copyright

Discipline No. of Journals Humanities 322 Fine Arts & Communications 150 Business 68 Family Home & Social Sciences 894 Life Sciences 738 Physical & Mathematical Sciences 747 Engineering 233 Health & Human Performance 1054 Nursing 25 Law 65 Religion 57 Education 247

Biological Reviews
Cambridge publication
Active since 1923
NOT Open Access ($420/year online)
ISI Impact Factor Rank: 2 (second highest)
PLOS-Biology
Online peer-reviewed
Active since 2003
Open Access
ISI Impact Factor Rank: 1 (highest)

Dr. Gregory Nordin
Engineering and Technology Endowed Chair Professor
Speciality: Optics
Why does Dr. Nordin favor publishing in Open Access journals?

Journal Began Access Impact Factor Rank (2006) Number of Greg’s articles (since 1997) Total Citations to these articles Applied Optics 1962 Closed 13 6 19 Journal of the Optical Society of America 1917 Closed 11 3 42 Optics Letters 1977 Closed 2 3 39 Optics Express 1997 Open 1 12 97

Type Examples Home Page http://www.math.byu.edu/~jarvis/ E-print archive ArXiv.org / BYU ScholarsArchive Author Fee BioMed Central / PLOS / Hindawi Subsidized First Monday Dual-mode Journal of Book of Mormon Studies Delayed Western North American Naturalist Partial The Lancet Bibliographic Indexing ScienceDirect Cooperative Open Journal System

Adapted from Repository66.org

Specialties: Algebraic geometry and mathematical physics
Chair of Math department

Open Access repository
Author website
Electronic Journal (closed, access via institutional subscription)
Print version

Source: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/libraries/2005/2005-04-21.open_access.html

1. Education
2. Encouragement (“opt-in”)
3. Policy (“opt-out”)

Open Access & evolving scholarly communications A Presentation to the BYU Academic Vice President’s Council October 9, 2008 Gideon Burton Jeff Belliston

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