OpenAccess
J u l i e n C o l o m b 

M o d i f i e d f r o m a p r e s e n t a t i o n o f
L I S A M AT T H I A S – F R E I E U N I V E R S I T Ä T B E R L I N –
@ l _ m a t t h i a
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Open-access (OA) literature is 

- digital,
- online,
- free of charge, and
- free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
P O W E R
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How many of you have ever hit a
paywall when trying to access a
research article?
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video introduction
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
time_continue=503&v=L5rVH1KGBCY
• License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
• Not easily accessible (no download button)
• No raw data
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M O S T
Scholarly research remains
inaccessible to most people on this
planet.
O N LY A R O U N D
2 8 %
Of scholarly literature is Open
Access.
Piwowar H, Priem J, Larivière V, Alperin JP, Matthias L, Norlander B, Farley A, West J, Haustein S. (2018) The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access
articles. PeerJ 6:e4375 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375
The Access Problem
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“Academic publishing is the perfect business model to
make a lot of money. You have the producer and
consumer as the same person: the researcher. And the
researcher has no idea how much anything costs.”
BRIAN NOSEK
U N I V E R S I T Y O F V I R G I N I A ,
C E N T E R F O R O P E N
S C I E N C E
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What do publishers do ?
- organisation of peer review
- copy editing editing (xml version creation)
- distribution
- provide prestige
- subscription negotiations and lobbying
- create the paywall
- create a way to pay to pass the paywall
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Profit Margins
0
10
20
30
40
BMW Google Apple Springer Elsevier
Adapted from https://alexholcombe.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/publisherprofitsincludingplos2015edition1.png
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Economics
costs
- 400-600 € for publishing a paper
- multiplied by the rejection factor
price
- what people will be ready to pay
- prestige has no price (every journal is a monopoly)
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See CC-BY movie: 

https://paywallthemovie.com
P O W E R
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Open Access
G O L D ( A P C g o l d , d i a m o n d
Publishing your scholarly work in an OA journal or
as an OA monograph.
G R E E N
Providing OA to a version of a work published in a
closed-access journal or with a closed-access
publisher.
B R O N Z E
BRONZE: free to read
B L A C K
BLACK: illegal copies (ResearchGate, sci-hub)

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The OA

Citation
Advantage
17
7
46
Studies that found citation advantage
Studies that were inconclusive, found non-significant advantage etc.
Studies that found no citation advantage
Tennant JP, Waldner F, Jacques DC et al. (2016) The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review [version 3; referees: 4 approved, 1 approved with
reservations]. F1000Research 5:632. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.8460.3
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Gold Open Access: Common Concerns
PAY I N G TO
P U B L I S H
Majority of OA journals does not
charge APCs.
A U T H O R R I G H T S
Author rights still protected,
granting greater reuse right to
readers.
AVA I L A B I L I T Y
OA articles and monographs
subject to the same editorial &
peer review standards as closed-
access counterparts.
Q U A L I T Y
OA does not influence print sales.
Consult publisher.
R O YA LT I E S
Considerable differences
regarding the availability of OA
journals.
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Early-career researchers
• What do we want?
And build our academic profile.
G E T P U B L I S H E D
…
F I N I S H T H AT D I S S E R TAT I O N
Within or outside of academia.
F I N D A P E R M A N E N T J O B
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Green Open Access: Common Practices
W H E N & W H AT
Check the publisher’s self-archiving
policies to know when & which version
you are allowed to deposit.
W H E R E
Institutional or disciplinary repositories
16
Green Open Access: Common Practices
• Preprints
• Bioarchive
• peerJ preprints
• …
W H E N & W H AT
Check the publisher’s self-archiving
policies to know when & which version
you are allowed to deposit.
W H E R E
Institutional or disciplinary repositories
17
30 Citations 28 Citations
PREPRINT JOURNAL ARTICLE
https://www.altmetric.com/details/23358582 https://www.altmetric.com/details/33152539
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SUPPORTS EXPORT &
HARVESTING
LONG-TERM
PRESERVATION
BUSINESS MODEL
FULFILLS FUNDER OA
POLICIES
N o N o Ye s
N o N o Ye s
C o m m e r c i a l C o m m e r c i a l N o n - p r o f i t
N o N o Ye s
Adapted from: https://openreflections.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/academia-edu-and-self-branding
P O W E R
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Benefits of Open Access
Fast communication
Maximize visibility (and therefore citation)
Facilitate collaboration
Increase efficiency
P O W E R
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The future ?
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast
• PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast
• PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied
• New business models are developed
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast
• PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied
• New business models are developed
• Open peer review is coming
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast
• PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied
• New business models are developed
• Open peer review is coming
• Eventually, we will achieve full, free OA
22
The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast
• PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied
• New business models are developed
• Open peer review is coming
• Eventually, we will achieve full, free OA
Because YOU will not care about journal prestige!

3 1 openaccess

  • 1.
    OpenAccess J u li e n C o l o m b 
 M o d i f i e d f r o m a p r e s e n t a t i o n o f L I S A M AT T H I A S – F R E I E U N I V E R S I T Ä T B E R L I N – @ l _ m a t t h i a
  • 2.
    2 Open-access (OA) literatureis 
 - digital, - online, - free of charge, and - free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
  • 3.
    P O WE R 3 How many of you have ever hit a paywall when trying to access a research article?
  • 4.
    4 video introduction • https://www.youtube.com/watch? time_continue=503&v=L5rVH1KGBCY •License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) • Not easily accessible (no download button) • No raw data
  • 5.
    5 M O ST Scholarly research remains inaccessible to most people on this planet. O N LY A R O U N D 2 8 % Of scholarly literature is Open Access. Piwowar H, Priem J, Larivière V, Alperin JP, Matthias L, Norlander B, Farley A, West J, Haustein S. (2018) The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. PeerJ 6:e4375 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375 The Access Problem
  • 6.
    6 “Academic publishing isthe perfect business model to make a lot of money. You have the producer and consumer as the same person: the researcher. And the researcher has no idea how much anything costs.” BRIAN NOSEK U N I V E R S I T Y O F V I R G I N I A , C E N T E R F O R O P E N S C I E N C E
  • 7.
    7 What do publishersdo ? - organisation of peer review - copy editing editing (xml version creation) - distribution - provide prestige - subscription negotiations and lobbying - create the paywall - create a way to pay to pass the paywall
  • 8.
    8 Profit Margins 0 10 20 30 40 BMW GoogleApple Springer Elsevier Adapted from https://alexholcombe.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/publisherprofitsincludingplos2015edition1.png
  • 9.
    9 Economics costs - 400-600 €for publishing a paper - multiplied by the rejection factor price - what people will be ready to pay - prestige has no price (every journal is a monopoly)
  • 10.
    10 See CC-BY movie:
 https://paywallthemovie.com
  • 11.
    P O WE R 11 Open Access G O L D ( A P C g o l d , d i a m o n d Publishing your scholarly work in an OA journal or as an OA monograph. G R E E N Providing OA to a version of a work published in a closed-access journal or with a closed-access publisher. B R O N Z E BRONZE: free to read B L A C K BLACK: illegal copies (ResearchGate, sci-hub)

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  • 15.
    13 The OA
 Citation Advantage 17 7 46 Studies thatfound citation advantage Studies that were inconclusive, found non-significant advantage etc. Studies that found no citation advantage Tennant JP, Waldner F, Jacques DC et al. (2016) The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review [version 3; referees: 4 approved, 1 approved with reservations]. F1000Research 5:632. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.8460.3
  • 16.
    14 Gold Open Access:Common Concerns PAY I N G TO P U B L I S H Majority of OA journals does not charge APCs. A U T H O R R I G H T S Author rights still protected, granting greater reuse right to readers. AVA I L A B I L I T Y OA articles and monographs subject to the same editorial & peer review standards as closed- access counterparts. Q U A L I T Y OA does not influence print sales. Consult publisher. R O YA LT I E S Considerable differences regarding the availability of OA journals.
  • 17.
    15 Early-career researchers • Whatdo we want? And build our academic profile. G E T P U B L I S H E D … F I N I S H T H AT D I S S E R TAT I O N Within or outside of academia. F I N D A P E R M A N E N T J O B
  • 18.
    16 Green Open Access:Common Practices W H E N & W H AT Check the publisher’s self-archiving policies to know when & which version you are allowed to deposit. W H E R E Institutional or disciplinary repositories
  • 19.
    16 Green Open Access:Common Practices • Preprints • Bioarchive • peerJ preprints • … W H E N & W H AT Check the publisher’s self-archiving policies to know when & which version you are allowed to deposit. W H E R E Institutional or disciplinary repositories
  • 20.
    17 30 Citations 28Citations PREPRINT JOURNAL ARTICLE https://www.altmetric.com/details/23358582 https://www.altmetric.com/details/33152539
  • 21.
    18 SUPPORTS EXPORT & HARVESTING LONG-TERM PRESERVATION BUSINESSMODEL FULFILLS FUNDER OA POLICIES N o N o Ye s N o N o Ye s C o m m e r c i a l C o m m e r c i a l N o n - p r o f i t N o N o Ye s Adapted from: https://openreflections.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/academia-edu-and-self-branding
  • 22.
    P O WE R 19
  • 23.
    20 Benefits of OpenAccess Fast communication Maximize visibility (and therefore citation) Facilitate collaboration Increase efficiency
  • 24.
    P O WE R 21
  • 25.
  • 26.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper !
  • 27.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper ! • It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
  • 28.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper ! • It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs • The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
  • 29.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper ! • It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs • The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change • Good news
  • 30.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper ! • It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs • The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change • Good news • Funders are pushing for OA
  • 31.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper ! • It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs • The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change • Good news • Funders are pushing for OA • DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
  • 32.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper ! • It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs • The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change • Good news • Funders are pushing for OA • DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands • The industry is changing fast
  • 33.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper ! • It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs • The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change • Good news • Funders are pushing for OA • DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands • The industry is changing fast • PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied
  • 34.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper ! • It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs • The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change • Good news • Funders are pushing for OA • DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands • The industry is changing fast • PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied • New business models are developed
  • 35.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper ! • It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs • The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change • Good news • Funders are pushing for OA • DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands • The industry is changing fast • PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied • New business models are developed • Open peer review is coming
  • 36.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper ! • It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs • The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change • Good news • Funders are pushing for OA • DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands • The industry is changing fast • PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied • New business models are developed • Open peer review is coming • Eventually, we will achieve full, free OA
  • 37.
    22 The future ? •Gold OA may not be cheaper ! • It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs • The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change • Good news • Funders are pushing for OA • DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands • The industry is changing fast • PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied • New business models are developed • Open peer review is coming • Eventually, we will achieve full, free OA Because YOU will not care about journal prestige!