July 2014 Science Open Presentation
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The document discusses open access to scholarly research and proposes actions individuals can take to advocate for more open access. It notes that access to research is important for students but publishing is very expensive. Open access aims to make research free to access and reuse online. Individuals can self-archive their work or publish in open access journals. They can also advocate for open access within their institutions and scholarly societies, participate in Open Access Week each October, and follow the Right to Research Coalition to support open access advocacy efforts.
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July 2014 Science Open Presentation
- 1. Open Access – What can you do? Joe McArthur - @mcarthur_joe Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button Science Open Roundtable – OKfest side event 16th July, 2014
- 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
- 7. www.righttoresearch.org € 15.234 Prices generated with Elsevier’s pricing tool, for an institutional subscription with more than 5 users for an academic institution in Poland with less than 10,000. Pricing tool URL: http://www.myelsevier.com/browse/product_details.jsp?productId=ELS_AG_BS-PRD-00942#
- 8. www.righttoresearch.org $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
- 9. Average journal price in Health Sciences: www.righttoresearch.org Chemistry = $4,450 Physics = $3,893 Agriculture = $1,441 = $1,482 Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey “The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal, April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013
- 10. www.righttoresearch.org Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey “The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal, April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013
- 11. www.righttoresearch.org -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%)
- 12. Publishing obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: “a licence to print money.” www.righttoresearch.org The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574
- 13. www.righttoresearch.org Publishing is big business… 39% 40-50%
- 14. Is there a reason publishing should be this expensive? www.righttoresearch.org
- 16. www.righttoresearch.org 80% of research is publicly funded 1 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
- 17. Shouldn’t our publishing system what we entrust to distribute the knowledge we work so hard to create share our values? www.righttoresearch.org
- 18. www.righttoresearch.org Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articles with full reuse rights Budapest Open Access Initiative
- 19. www.righttoresearch.org Two paths to Open Access Self- archiving Open Access Journals
- 20. www.righttoresearch.org X 2,000 1. Publish (almost) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository
- 21. www.righttoresearch.org 2. Publish in an open-access journal X >9,000
- 22. www.righttoresearch.org McKiernan, Erin (2014): Being open as an early career researcher. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.954994
- 24. Setting the default to Open – through advocacy www.righttoresearch.org
- 25. <Start Open Access Button> www.righttoresearch.org
- 27. </Start Open Access Button> www.righttoresearch.org
- 28. www.righttoresearch.org 1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits over the past 4.5 years
- 30. Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014 www.righttoresearch.org
- 33. Advocate for Open Access within scholarly societies www.righttoresearch.org
- 34. 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
- 35. But what can you do?
- 39. Summary www.righttoresearch.org • Publish Open Access yourself • Self Archive • Publish Open Access • Advocate for Open Access • Host an OpenCon Satellite Event • Take part in Open Access Week • Follow the Coalition
Editor's Notes
- Why can’t you get access? You need a subscription!
- In fact, they’ve done well over 1,000 meetings with Congressional offices since we’ve started working with them And they’re in DC right now braving the now to meet with Congressional offices today and tomorrow
- - Students helped convert the directive into action.
- - Students engaging scholarly societies
- - Students engaging scholarly societies