From the Society for Scholarly Publishing SSP 2012 meeting, Mark Johnson, HighWire | Stanford University, talks about How a Hosting Platform Facilitates Access for Developing Countries

1. How a Hosting Platform Facilitates
Access for Developing Countries
SSP: Free Access for Developing Countries
Presenter: Mark Johnson – Director, Publisher Relations
Date: June 1, 2012

2. Part One:
Access Programs
SSP: Free Access for Developing Countries

3. Free Access Programs include:
• Research4Life
– HINARI http://www.who.int/hinari/en/
– AGORA http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/
– OARE http://www.oaresciences.org/en/
– ARDI http://www.wipo.int/ardi/en/
• World Bank “low income economies”
http://data.worldbank.org/
• INASP & PERI http://www.inasp.info/
• eIFL http://www.eifl.net/
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/devecon.dtl
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4. http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/partners.php
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5. http://agora.aginternetwork.org/content/en/par
tners.php
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6. http://oare.oaresciences.org/content/en/partn
ers.php
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7. http://www.wipo.int/ardi/en/partners.html
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8. 651 Sites (out of ~1700) Offer Free Access
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9. http://data.worldbank.org/country
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10. Sample access by country list
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11. Part Two:
Usage Statistics
SSP: Free Access for Developing Countries

12. Hinari full text downloads
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13. Hinari FT usage as % of Total Full Text
Downloads
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14. Part Three:
Publisher Feedback
SSP: Free Access for Developing Countries

15. Why make access free for developing
countries?
• Altruism / humanitarian concerns
• Public Relations (the 'halo' effect)
• Boosting Usage (monetization)
• Market development (growing international
author pools / submissions)
• Boosting Impact (assumes access = citations)
• Competition does it (the bandwagon effect)
• Boosting Visibility
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16. Publisher Quotes
• “…international outreach is part of our
association’s strategic plan. Offering free
access to developing countries is just one
aspect of the outreach program.”
• “Our society is mission‐driven, and having a
free access policy for developing economies is
just the right thing to do.”
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17. Publisher Quotes
• “We have our own program that provides free
access directly to institutions [in developing
nations] like an annual grant. They need to
reapply each year. This way, we know those
who need our content but can’t afford it can
get it and actually use it.”
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18. Publisher Quotes
• [Does free access have any impact on
submissions?]
• “There doesn’t seem to have been any change
that can be attributed to the additional access
other than we probably lost a few
subscriptions…”
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19. Thank You
For more info: mjohnson@highwire.stanford.edu
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