Presentation at the Scholarly Communication Retreat, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. Oct.6, 2015. This talk is a personal perspective on Open Access and what I see as the key impetus for engaging in open access practices. I highlight some recent innovations, both in terms of tools and modes of collaborative research enabled by OA. I also highlight recent developments in financial models in support of OA journal and monograph publishing.

1. Journal, Institutional Repository, and
Beyond
Leslie Chan
Centre for Critical Development Studies
Department of Arts, Culture and Media
Scholarly Communication Retreat
St. Michael’s University
University of Toronto
Oct. 6, 2015

2. What I am going to talk about…
• My understanding of Open Access (OA)
• Impetus for OA
• Changing landscape of scholarly
communication
• Options available to you
• Examples
• Your questions

3. 350 year of publication

4. Figure 1. Unequal contribution and participation in science.
Chan L, Kirsop B, Arunachalam S (2011) Towards Open and Equitable Access to Research and Knowledge for Development. PLoS Med 8(3):
e1001016. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001016
http://127.0.0.1:8081/plosmedicine/article?id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001016

5. http://www.bioline.org.br

6. http://www.bioline.org.br

7. Centre
Could Open Access change the current
power structure of global scientific
production and dissemination?
Periphery
Periphery
open access creates the
potential for new spaces for
collaboration and co-creation
of knowledge

8. Fig 4. Percentage of papers published by the five major publishers, by discipline of Social Sciences and
Humanities, 1973–2013.
Larivière V, Haustein S, Mongeon P (2015) The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127502.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0127502
http://127.0.0.1:8081/plosone/article?id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0127502

10. “An old tradition and a new
technology have converged to
make possible an unprecedented
public good.”
Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002
http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read

11. Open-access (OA) literature is digital,
online, free of charge, and free of most
copyright and licensing restrictions.

12. OA is possible because scholarly
communication is a form of peer
production in the gift economy.

13. OA is compatible with traditional peer
review, but it also opens possibilities
for other forms of quality control,
evaluation, and assessment.

14. OA expands the boundaries of research,
our peer networks, and promotes closer
linkage between teaching, learning, and
research.

15. https://theconversation.com/homo-naledi-fossil-discovery-a-triumph-for-open-access-

16. Above all, OA provides expanded
opportunities for scholarly participation
that are inclusive, collaborative, and
innovative.

17. But…

20. And obsession with prestige and
ranking

21. • Journal pages with IF
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-development/

25. http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3748

26. http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328

27. The IF are more eff
http://iai.asm.org/content/early/201
1/08/08/IAI.05661-
11.full.pdf+html?view=long&pmid=2
1825063

28. Impetus for OA
• Bottom up - Scholars and Librarians driven
– Taking back control of knowledge production
• Top down - Policy and Grant Makers driven
– Funding research for public good
• Middle – Linking the top down and bottom up
approaches

30. Minister Holder Announces New Open Access Policy for
Research
Canadians will have free online access to research funded
by NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR
February 27, 2015– Toronto
Making research results as widely available and
accessible as possible is an essential part of advancing
knowledge and maximizing the impact of publicly-funded
research for Canadians. Increased access to the results of
publicly-funded research can spur scientific discovery,
enable better international collaboration and
coordination of research, enhance the engagement of
society and support the economy.

32. OA is not cost free, and there are different
mechanisms and strategies for achieving OA.

33. It is now common to speak of two forms of OA.
– Green OA, or author self-archiving
– Gold OA, or publishing in native OA journals

34. https://doaj.org/

35. http://figshare.com/articles/Average_APC_price_2014/1311650

36. The PeerJ Model –
Pay Once, Publish For Life
Undergraduates publish for free

37. http://maps.repository66.org/

38. http://arxiv.org/

40. https://innoscholcomm.silk.co/ & http://bit.ly/innoscholcomm-list

41. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/

46. http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001016

48. http://episciences.org/

50. Informal
feedback / Q&A
Evaluation /
ALMs
Formal
optional open
peer-review
Contribution
points / profile
pages

53. No author fee

56. http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/
http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/ku-in-60-seconds/

57. Jeroen Bosman & Bianca Kramer
Utrecht University Libraryhttps://innoscholcomm.silk.co/
101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication

59. Traditional workflow
https://innoscholcomm.silk.co/page/Traditional

60. Open Science workflow
https://innoscholcomm.silk.co/page/Open-Science

61. “what is legitimate knowledge and how to
structure our institutions around questions of its
generation, conservation, transmission and
value-addition – including reinterpretation”
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/globalhighered/innovative-and-
engaging-communications
Gisèle Yasmeen, Innovative and Engaging Communications