The problem of accessibility to scientific research is already solved through Green Open Access. More serious and important problems are those of validation and evaluation that still depend exclusively on academic journals. I propose to dissociate these processes from academic journals and show an easy way to do exactly that taking advantage mostly of existing infrastructure.

1. Open Access:
the tip of the Iceberg
Pandelis Perakakis, PhD
Open Scholar C.I.C.
perakakis@openscholar.org.uk
liberatingresearch.org openscholar.org.uk @libreapp

2. Open Access: the tip of the Iceberg
Dissemination
Validation
Evaluation

3. Validation
Inexperienced reviewers

4. Validation
Inexperienced reviewers

5. Validation
Van Noorden, 2011 Nature 478(6)

6. Evaluation
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Recognition and prestige
International Journal of…
He is a Nature

7. Evaluation
Grants and job positions

8. Evaluation
University Rankings

9. A brief comment: why all this
fuss with the solved problem of
OA?

10. …cause it’s good business!
Whatever one may think about the relative merits of Green and Gold OA (a
matter that my colleagues on the Kitchen and myself have discussed numerous
times) or the economic implications of embargoes of various lengths, what is
clear is that Green OA has no promise of delivering augmented revenues to the
publisher, but Gold OA opens up a new customer, the author him or herself, who
in many instances pays for the article to be OA. Gold OA, in other words,
represents a business opportunity, whereas Green OA represents a business
problem.

11. what’s the real problem…
Data are from Mike Taylor, The obscene
profits of commercial scholarly publishers,
2012
http://
openaccess.commons.
gc.cuny.edu/

12. … and how to solve it

13. … and how to solve it
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14. … and how to solve it
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15. who we are…
119 volunteer scholars from 18 countries
www.openscholar.org.uk

16. …and what we do
www.lib-res.org

17. …what we do…
I. Immediate free public access
II. Independent peer review
III. Versioning and dissemination
IV. Open evaluation
• Open source
• Open volunteer community
http://www.openscholar.org.uk/independent-peer-review-initiative/

18. …and what YOU can do
• Join the organisation
• Sign the Independent Peer Review
Manifesto
• Help with the development
• Help with the promotion of ideas (talks,
conferences, meetings, etc)
• Fundraising

19. thank you!
perakakis@openscholar.org.uk
liberatingresearch.org openscholar.org.uk @libreapp