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1. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress Open Scholarship: more important than ever Brian Hole, Founder and CEO Levy Library, October 24th 2018

2. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress  About Ubiquity  WHY openness matters  Benefits of open  Our approach  Recent policy  Achieving OA & OS  The OS flywheel

3. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress To achieve a revolution in open scholarship, returning control of publishing to universities, libraries and researchers, by providing them with the infrastructure, skills and support to succeed. Background Mission  Spun out of University College London in 2012  Researcher-led  200+ years publishing experience (BioMed Central, PLOS, Elsevier etc.)  Current staff of 25, head office in London, US office in Berkeley  Comprehensive approach: journals, books, conferences, repositories, data, software, wetware… About Ubiquity Press

4. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress 100% OPEN ACCESS 100% OPEN SOURCE Customer Charter NO EXCLUSIVE BUNDLING

5. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress Institutional customers Must demonstrate community values and provide guarantees Determine who we will integrate and work with STEERING BOARD Verify that charter is upheld in significant investment or acquisition PARTNERSHIP RULES Community Driven

6. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress The Social Contract of Academia • Validation • Dissemination • Further development Scientific Malpractice • Data, software, hardware, wetware… • Results Source: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/2003-05-01 Unconditionally Open

7. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress Source: Washington Post, May 7 2013 / Imgur: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/07/map-more- than-half-of-humanity-lives-within-this-circle/

8. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress Source: Nature News, 20 April 2011, DOI: 10.1038/472276a

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11. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress We’re not there yet

13. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress Transparent pricing, e.g. APC $500 (HSS) or $600 (STEM)

15. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress Full anti-plagiarism checking Provision for open research data and software archiving with all publications Rigorous peer review Editorial guidance and training Provision for open peer review COPE membership for all editors Close links with society’s ethics committee Research integrity

17. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress https://www.levylibrarypress.org/

19. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress Recent policy

20. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress European Commission plus 13 national research funding organizations ‘cOAlition S’ “After 1 January 2020 scientific publications on the results from research funded by public grants provided by national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.” Funders to cover APCs APCs to be capped No ‘hybrid’ OA

21. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (2018) 'A Vision for 21st Century Research’ • "research conducted openly and transparently leads to better science" Available at: http://nap.edu/25116 • "Additional funding, mandates, and community initiatives can be deployed to push towards open science, but careful planning of stakeholder buy-in will be needed to avoid unintended negative consequences and disruptions."

22. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress Means openness throughout the research lifecycle, not just open access at the end: Open Scholarship Data Management Plans Protocols / methodologies Research data and software at all stages Laboratory notebooks Preprints Peer-reviewed research results (articles, books)

26. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress https://openhealthdata.metajnl.com/

27. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress https://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/

28. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress https://openbioresources.metajnl.com/

29. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress http://opensourcemalaria.org/

30. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress https://www.biorxiv.org/

31. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress Legacy publishers have lobbied against the right to electronically read even already purchased content. https://www.futuretdm.eu/ Machine reading of large volumes of papers and datasets More efficient, discovers otherwise unknown correlations Significant potential to accelerate science, accelerate economic growth Text and Data Mining

32. brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | www.ubiquitypress.com| @ubiquitypress Thanks! Any questions?