Open Access and Research Integrity Workshop Introduction - 2014
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The document discusses open access and research integrity. It introduces Joe McArthur and the Right to Research Coalition, which advocates for student access to research. It notes that 40% of researchers lack access to needed resources and journal prices are rising much faster than inflation. The document argues that as most research is publicly funded, the publishing system should share public values of accessibility and integrity. It introduces open access as providing free online access and full reuse rights. There are two paths to open access - self-archiving in repositories or publishing in open access journals. Open access articles appear to be cited more and downloaded more, suggesting increased visibility.
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Open Access and Research Integrity Workshop Introduction - 2014
- 1. Open Access and Research Integrity – An introduction Saturday 2nd August Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_Joe Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition Co-founder of the Open Access Button
- 2. My Story
- 3. 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. Our program areas include Education and Advocacy
- 8. www.righttoresearch.org Source: Research Information Network, “How researchers secure access to licensed content not immediately available to them,” December 2009 40% of researchers can’t access resources they need on a DAILY or WEEKLY basis
- 9. The average academic library in the UK has access to just HALF of all journals www.righttoresearch.org
- 16. 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#
- 17. 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
- 18. 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
- 19. 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
- 20. 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%)
- 21. Publishing obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: “a license to print money.” www.righttoresearch.org The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574
- 22. www.righttoresearch.org Publishing is big business… 39% 40-50%
- 23. Is there a reason publishing should be this expensive? www.righttoresearch.org
- 25. 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
- 26. Shouldn’t our publishing system what we entrust to distribute the knowledge we work so hard to create share our values? www.righttoresearch.org
- 27. Shouldn’t our publishing system what we entrust to distribute the knowledge we work so hard to create Increase our research’s integrity? www.righttoresearch.org
- 28. As defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articles with full reuse rights
- 29. www.righttoresearch.org What Open Access isn’t • Low quality publication • Publication without peer review
- 31. www.righttoresearch.org Two paths to Open Access Self- archiving Open Access Journals
- 32. www.righttoresearch.org X 2,000 1. Publish (almost) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository
- 33. www.righttoresearch.org 1. Publish (almost) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository
- 34. www.righttoresearch.org 2. Publish in an open-access journal X >9,000
- 35. www.righttoresearch.org 2. Publish in an open-access journal $ $or
- 37. www.righttoresearch.org “We don’t know when this impact will happen, or how it will happen, or what the impact will be”
- 38. Conclusions Overall, articles published OA appear to show a higher number of citations, though the effect is small, and the data provided does not allow us to control for possible confounding effects such as the posting of articles in repositories, the number and location of authors, and the possibility that authors are selecting their ‘best’ papers to publish on OA terms. Similarly, any effect of OA on the timing of citations appears to be small, and we have not been able to control for possible changes such as increased awareness of the journal on the part of both readers and authors. But although the impact on citations is small, the impact of open access publication on HTML views and PDF downloads is large and significant, suggesting increased visibility for the open access papers. http://www.nature.com/press_releases/ncomms-report2014.pdf
- 39. Credit to Cameron Neylon for this. http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/network-enabled-research-the- role-of-open-source-and-open-thinking
- 40. The Story of Jack Andraka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSVjqtOj4oM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G55hlnSD1Ys www.righttoresearch.org
- 42. www.righttoresearch.org McKiernan, Erin (2014): Being open as an early career researcher. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.954994
- 43. What does Wikipedia have to say? Adapted from Wikipedia on 01/08/2014 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor#Validity_as_a_measure_of_importance The impact factor is based on the arithmetic mean number of citations per paper, yet citation counts follow a Bradford distribution (i.e., a power law distribution) and therefore the arithmetic mean is a statistically inappropriate measure.[8] For example, about 90% of Nature's 2004 impact factor was based on only a quarter of its publications, and thus the importance of any one publication will be different from, and in most cases less than, the overall number.[9] … It is important to note that impact factor is a journal metric and should not be used to assess individual researchers or institutions.[15][16]
- 45. Altmetrics and Article Level Metrics Credit to Ian Mulvany from: https://twitter.com/IanMulvany/status/424904870643384320
- 46. Lets talk licensing Image Attributed to Creative Commons
- 47. Lets talk licensing Image Attributed to Creative Commons
- 48. Lets talk licensing Image Attributed to Creative Commons
Editor's Notes
- Mention my degree, research background. Talk about how 18 months ago I knew nothing about this topic.
- Introduce the R2RC
- Many IFMSA members are also members of R2RC
- Why can’t you get access? You need a subscription! Ask the room if they’ve even not been able to access something.
- Show this is a problem others have
- Privilege universities can’t access it either
- Thinking more broadly than the UK, what’s the global impact. Talk about the Open Access Button
- These are someone the stories. Patients, Clinicians, Academics, Students, Librarians and teachers, all denied access to the research they need because of an archaic scholarly publishing system that is not fit for purpose.
- What gone wrong is that journals are expensive
- Who knows how expensive?
- Explain the slide. Explain the basic way research is published
- This all becomes crazier when you realise that 80% is publically funded.
- Science is intrinsically open
- So to summarise what I just said.
- Mention the percentages
- Highlight 3 points. Jack (reaching now audiences), reuse, and citations/downloads