100 % Open Access -
Call for Action
Patrick Danowski
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What is Open Access?
50%free available*
* source: 1science http://www.1science.com/oanumbr.html
Free ≠ Open
Free
Open
Open Access
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Derivates
Berlin Declaration on Open Access
Past
Journal Crisis
end 1990:
big increases 

well above inflation
Present
We still struggle with
subscriptions
Average price increase:
~4%
Inflation 2015
Europe: 0.23 %
US: 0.70 %
15% in Open Access Journals
Quelle: Schimmer, R., Geschuhn, K. K., & Vogler, A. (2015). Disrupting the subscription journals’
business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access. doi:10.17617/1.3.
+1% per year
2100
Challenge:
Scientist still publish in
established brand journals
We have to buy them
Evaluation is often
based on top journals
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Idea:
Transform the system
Question:
How do we achieve the
transformation?
Solution:
Developing 

a common strategy
Austria is going forward
16 recommendations
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.51799
Reorganise publishing
contracts
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Contract
2013-
2015
Access
for
~700
Journals
Contract
2016-
2018
Access
for
~2000
Journals
OA

Publishing
of
3600
articles
Read + Publish
SpringerCompact
Q1	2015 Q2	2015
OA
non	OA
Austrian Publications at Springer
Q1
2015 2016
Q2
2015 2016
Data provided by Springer
Offsetting
Subscription Fee 2016 =
Subscription Fee 2015 + Increase 2016 - APCs paid 2015
2015
2016
100%
Austria IOP: Source Brigritte Kromp
103%
Subscription
A

P

C
Subscription
A

P

C
In Negotiation: Wiley
Deals with…
Outcome
• More OA articles
• Free license and usage rights
International cooperations
infrastructure
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AT: >130.000 €
35.000.000€
0.3%
Do Monitoring
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Austria alone can’t
change the system
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50% OA IN 2020

100% OA IN 2025
100% OA IN 2025
AMSTERDAM CALL FOR ACTION
100% OA FOR ALL PUBLICLY FUNDED
BY 2020
100% OA IN 2025
100% OA IN 2022
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OA 2020
• transform scholarly journals from subscription to
OA publishing
• support new and improved forms of OA
publishing.
• re-organize the underlying cash flows, to
establish transparency […]
Librarians can take
action …
Let us transform the
system
Join the movement!
http://www.oa2020.org
patrick.danowski@ist.ac.at

100% Open Access - Call for Action