Part of a course given for
EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries)
"The State of the Art of Open Access. Open Access is here to stay"
10 June 2014
Rome, Italy
The State of the Art of Open Access. Open Access is here to stay, June 2014
1. The State of the Art of Open Access
Open Access is here to stay
Vanessa Proudman
SPARC Europe
Proud2Know
EAHIL Course, 10 June 2014
2. Overview
• What Open Access is
• The changing context of scholarly communication
• How funders and institutions are supporting the
change
• Library support
• What’s next
3. What is Open Access?
“ Open-access (OA) literature is digital,
online, free of charge, and free of most
copyright and licensing restrictions. What
makes it possible is the internet and the
consent of the author or copyright-holder”
A very brief introduction to Open Access
Peter Suber
7. Budapest Open Access Initiative,
2001
“Open access is economically feasible, it gives
readers extraordinary power to find and
make use of relevant literature, and it gives
authors and their works vast and
measureable new visibility, readership, and
impact.”
www.soros.org/openaccess
8. Open Access repositories, 2000
• Provide digital access to research
• Through an interoperable framework (OAI-PMH)
• Institutions and subject communities
• > 2500 repositories since 2000
• Creating a global database of openly-accessible research
11. Open Access journals
• Content available to readers free of charge
• Some journals charge a publishing fee
• Although more than 50% do not
• To date (June 2014), over 9,750 OA journals
(doaj.org) vs ca 50,000 total of peer-reviewed
journals (Ulrich’s)
17. Articles are increasing
from Laakso, M., & Björk, B.-C. (2012). Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudin
development and internal structure. BMC Medicine, 10(1), 124. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-124
28. International Open Access services
• OpenAIRE
• SHERPA/Romeo Publisher copyright policies & self
archiving
• SHERPA/Juliet Research funders’ open access polic
• ROARMAP Registry of Open Access Repositories
Mandatory Archiving Policies
• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
• DOAB Directory of Open Access Books
• …
44. FP7 >> H2020
FP7 H2020
‘Green’ policy: ‘make best
efforts…’
‘Green’ mandate (obligatory)
‘Gold’ payments eligible ‘Gold’ payments eligible
Covers 20% of research
(selected fields)
Covers 100% of research (all
fields)
6/12 month embargoes 6/12 month embargoes
Mute on monographs Mute on monographs
Nothing on Open Data Open Data pilot
54. Other library services
• What is Open Access? Information Services, The
University of Edinburgh
• Research Funders: Open Access Policies, University
Library, University of St Andrews
• Which journals should I publish in? University of
Warwick Library
• Getting Published, University Library, The University
of Melbourne
• Michigan Publishing, MLibrary, University of Michigan
The Finch Report: http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-Group-report-FINAL-VERSION.pdf
Commissioned by UK Science Minister
Accelerate the progress to a fully open access environment
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/policy/
Must deposit final peer-reviewed manuscript on acceptance for publication to be conidered for REF evaluation.
Immediate deposit of the peer-reviewed accepted manuscript in an IR to be made publicly available within 12m of pub.