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Acting on Open
- 1. Ac#ng on “Open.” Heather Joseph Executive Director, SPARC SEC Academic Collaboration Award 2015 Workshop College Station, TX February 7, 2015
- 4. New Channels to Share Work.
- 7. We have a unique opportunity to explore innova#ve ways to access and use this vast new wealth of digital info.
- 8. Oh and by the way – it’s all online, it’s got to be cheaper, right?
- 9. Well...no.
- 11. Costs for 1-‐yr Journal Subscrip#ons www.righOoresearch.org Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20050828210650/libraries.mit.edu/about/scholarly/expensive-titles.html
- 12. Average Textbook Prices Source: http://www.studentpirgs.org/sites/student/files/reports/A-Cover-to-Cover-Solution_4pdf
- 13. $1,207. Average budget for student books and supplies for the 2013-‐2014 academic year. Source http/:trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-estimaed- undergraduate-budgets-2013-2014
- 14. Library budgets & journal prices -50% 0% 50% 100% 150% 200% 250% 300% 350% 400% 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 PercentageChange Year MIT Libraries Materials Purchases vs. CPI % Increase 1986-2006 Consumer Price Index % + Serial Expenditures % + # Serials Purchased % + # Books Purchased % + Book Expenditures % + Journal expenditure Infla#on
- 15. Textbook prices and the CPI Source: www.goa.gov/products/GAO-13-368
- 16. déjà vu?
- 17. Library budgets & journal prices -50% 0% 50% 100% 150% 200% 250% 300% 350% 400% 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 PercentageChange Year MIT Libraries Materials Purchases vs. CPI % Increase 1986-2006 Consumer Price Index % + Serial Expenditures % + # Serials Purchased % + # Books Purchased % + Book Expenditures % + Journal expenditure Infla#on
- 18. Textbook prices and the CPI Source: www.goa.gov/products/GAO-13-368
- 19. Nope.
- 20. Despite the promise of the Internet, the materials we most need the freedom to work with remain largely under restric#ve pricing and reuse policies.
- 21. We have 20th century policies governing 21st century informa#on.
- 23. First and easiest answer is, of course, money.
- 24. “The annual revenues generated by STM journal publishing were es#mated at US $9.4 billion in 2011…” Source: The STM Report,h6p://www.stm-‐assoc.org/2012_12_11_STM_Report_2012.pdf
- 25. “During same #me period, annual revenues for textbook publishers were es#mated at US $8.8 billion …” Source: http://www.slideshare.net/txtbks/keynote-nercomp?related=1
- 26. That’s a lot of revenue…now let’s consider the profits.
- 27. Profit Margins Source: pic.twitter.com/L3U6GWhM
- 28. And we know where that money comes from…
- 29. Libraries. Students & their families.
- 30. Prohibi#ve costs means this informa#on is available to the few – not the many.
- 31. We’re forced into living with work-‐ arounds.
- 32. Money is only one factor. Fundamental characteris#cs set the academic textbook and journal markets apart from others.
- 33. Intermediaries blunt price sensi#vity.
- 35. Now look at that slide again, just subs#tute “Libraries” and “Researchers” for students and professors…
- 37. It’s déjà vu all over again…(thanks, Yogi.)
- 38. No Subs#tu#ons.
- 39. If you need The Lancet… …You need The Lancet.
- 40. No such thing as “The Lancet Lite.”
- 41. And one last thing...
- 42. Scholars are s#ll largely evaluated on the reputa#on of the journal #tles they publish in, rather than the direct quality of the ar#cles they publish.
- 45. No, no, no…hope is not lost. Not by a long shot!
- 46. A tale of two “open” movements.
- 48. Similar drivers, as we’ve just seen.
- 49. But also: similar goals, values, strategies and tac#cs.
- 51. 51 “By open access, we mean the free availability of ar#cles on the public internet, permiFng any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these ar#cles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to sokware or use them for any other lawful purpose…” -‐ The Budapest Open Access Ini3a3ve – February 14, 2002
- 52. Open Access = Immediate Access + Full Reuse
- 54. 54 “OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others ” -‐The HewleB Founda3on Defini3on of OER
- 55. OER = Free Access + Full Reuse Rights
- 57. Both OA and OER emphasize the absolute impera#ve to enable unobstructed digital reuse of these materials, to fully exploit the power -‐ and the value -‐ of the informa#on they contain.
- 58. Both movements believe that “Open” provides both a solu#on to a problem, as well as a lever to create new opportuni#es.
- 59. Ul#mate end-‐game: Set the default to “Open.”
- 60. Steady progress being made by both movements to:
- 62. 2. Create Legal Framework.
- 63. 3. Create Sustainable Business Models.
- 64. 4. Create Policy Framework
- 66. Challenges are big, but the Opportuni#es are bigger.
- 67. Our community holds powerful cards.
- 68. 1. We are the content producers. 2. We are the customer base. 3. We have op#ons for individual and collec#ve ac#on. 4. Ac#ons can be small (cancel subscrip#on) or large (collec#ve infrastructure project.
- 69. It’s up to us. Let’s get to work!
- 70. Thank You for Listening. Heather Joseph Execu#ve Director, SPARC heather@arl.org Thanks to Nicole Allen, Nick Shockey, SPARC NA and Alma Swan, SPARC EU, for sharing slides for this presenta#on.