IFMSA EuRegMe Workshop 2015
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The document discusses open access and its importance for equality in research. It notes that open access allows all researchers and students to access scholarly literature regardless of their ability to pay. However, commercial academic publishers have made publishing into a highly profitable business, resulting in rapidly rising subscription costs that restrict access. The document advocates for open access policies and self-archiving of research to make knowledge publicly available.
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IFMSA EuRegMe Workshop 2015
- 1. Open Access - an issue of Equality Joe McArthur (@R2RC) Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition Co-founder, Open Access Button EuRegMe - IFMSA April 27, 2015
- 2. Launched in Summer 2009. Built around the Student Statement on the Right to Research: access to research is a student right International alliance of 77 graduate & undergraduate student organizations, representing nearly 7 million students We Educate + Advocate for Open Access
- 3. www.sparc.arl.org My slides, videos and more: bit.ly/euregme2015
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- 7. $39,082 Robert Darnton, “The Library: Three Jeremiads,” New York Review of Books, December 23, 2010 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jeremiads
- 8. Average journal price in Chemistry: Biology = $2,520 Geography = $1,308 Physics = $3,870 = $4,215 www.sparc.arl.org Source: Library Journal 2014 Periodicals Pricing Survey “Steps Down the Evolutionary Road | Periodicals Price Survey 2014,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal, April 11, 2014: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/04/publishing/steps-down-the-evolutionary-road-periodicals-price-survey-2014/#_
- 9. Source: Library Journal 2014 Periodicals Pricing Survey “Steps Down the Evolutionary Road | Periodicals Price Survey 2014,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal, April 11, 2014: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/04/publishing/steps-down-the-evolutionary-road-periodicals-price-survey-2014/#_ www.sparc.arl.org
- 10. -25% 25% 75% 125% 175% 225% 275% 325% 375% 425% 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 %ChangeSince1986 Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C. *Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward. Graph 2 Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011* Serial Expenditures (+402%) Monograph Expenditures (+71%) Monographs Purchased (10%) www.sparc.arl.org
- 11. Publishing obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: “a licence to print money.” Source: The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574 www.sparc.arl.org
- 12. www.righttoresearch.org Publishing is big business… www.sparc.arl.org
- 13. www.righttoresearch.org Publishing is big business… 39% Source: “Elsevier STM publishing profits rise to 39%” http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2014/03/elsevier-stm-publishing-profits-rise-to.html www.sparc.arl.org
- 16. Is there a reason publishing should be this expensive? www.sparc.arl.org
- 18. 80% of research is publicly funded Source: “Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into shares, HSBC Global Research,” February 11, 2013: https://www.research.hsbc.com/midas/Res/RDV?ao=20&key=RxArFbnG1P&n=360010.PDF 1 www.sparc.arl.org
- 19. Does our publishing system what we entrust to distribute the knowledge we work so hard to create share our values? www.sparc.arl.org
- 20. Closed academic publishing breaks the Internet www.sparc.arl.org
- 21. Closed academic publishing breaks the Internet :`( www.sparc.arl.org
- 22. We can do better. Slide credit: Nicole Allen
- 23. Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articles with full reuse rights Budapest Open Access Initiative www.sparc.arl.org
- 26. This is an issue of EQUALITY www.sparc.arl.org
- 27. Two paths to Open Access Self- archiving Open Access Journals www.sparc.arl.org
- 28. 1. Publish in an open-access journal X >10,000 Source: Directory of Open Access Journals: www.doaj.org www.sparc.arl.org
- 29. X 2,000 2. Publish (most) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository www.sparc.arl.org
- 32. Who Benefits from Open Access? www.sparc.arl.org
- 33. Who Benefits from Open Access? www.sparc.arl.org • You
- 35. 2014 European Commission Report: +40.3% citation advantage for freely accessible papers -27.0% citation disadvantage for non- freely accessible papers Source: European Commission Report: “Proportion of Open Access Papers Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals at the European and World Levels—1996–2013 URL: http://science-metrix.com/en/publications/reports#/en/publications/reports/proportion-of-open-access-papers-published-in-peer- reviewed-journals-at-the www.sparc.arl.org
- 36. www.sparc.arl.org Valeria Aman , The potential of preprints to accelerate scholarly communication – A bibliometric analysis based on selected journals http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4856
- 37. Who Benefits from Open Access? www.sparc.arl.org • You • Society
- 38. Mphatso Nguluwe Deputy Principal College of Nursing, Ekwendeni Source: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information/focus/access/articles_publications/articles/openaccess_20070419 HIV and AIDS have hit us in Africa the hardest, and it is up to us to learn what we can to fight the disease. If we can’t obtain the best information, we can’t succeed in our struggle and millions more will die. Some researchers have even come here from abroad to work, gone home, and published their findings; but articles they’ve written cannot be accessed here.
- 41. Who Benefits from Open Access? www.sparc.arl.org • You • Society • Computers
- 43. What are early career researchers doing to advance Open Access? www.sparc.arl.org
- 44. Make your work openly available on The Internet Mike Taylor: The SV-POW! open-access decision tree svpow.com/2013/05/11/the-sv-pow-open-access-decision-tree/
- 47. Raise awareness about Open Access on campus and beyond www.sparc.arl.org
- 49. i) confirms the importance of students having access to research journals and articles as part of their training; ii) notes the high cost to institutions and individuals when accessing scholarly literature; iii) proposes that this could hinder medical students in their development as ‘The Doctor as the Scientist’ as well as developing an evidence based clinical approach; iv) welcomes and endorses the Right To Research Coalition’s statement on Open Access to research literature. www.righttoresearch.org June 25, 2012
- 51. Setting the Default to Open: Institutional & Funder Policies www.sparc.arl.org
- 52. Institutional Open Access Policies 270 Institutions in 45 countries Datafromroarmap.eprints.org.AccessedonDecember2,2014
- 54. Research Funder Open Access Policies 115 Research Funders in 28 Countries Datafromroarmap.eprints.org.AccessedonDecember2,2014
- 55. www.righttoresearch.org 1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits over the past 5+ years
- 58. things to do
- 59. Sign up for updates now at opencon2015.org/attend Full recordings of OpenCon 2014 at bit.ly/opencon2014videos
- 60. OpenCon 2014 Speakers Included: • Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States for Legislative Affairs • Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks • Associate Director for Data Science, U.S. National Institutes of Health • Co-founder, Open Library of the Humanities
- 64. Thank you! Joe@righttoresearch.org or @Mcarthur_Joe My slides, videos and more: bit.ly/euregme2015
Editor's Notes
- Why I was invited. Who I represent.
- Whiles these publishers make money, people are locked out of access
- This is what the reuse part enables
- Talk about repository story
- This is what the reuse part enables
- Make Open Access part of the academic culture, just as informed consent and disclosure of conflicts of interest are
- - Students engaging scholarly societies
- Two more today!