Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC, slides to discuss what progress has been made toward establishing open as the default for research publications over the past year.

1. The State of Open Access
Heather Joseph
Executive Director, SPARC
OpenCon 2015 Webcast
November 9, 2015

2. SPARC is a global organization
empowering people to solve big
problems and make new
discoveries through the
adoption of Open Access, Open
Education and Open Data.

3. Our mission is to set the default
to “open” for sharing information
in the research and education
environments.

4. Why do we need to do this?

5. Despite the promise of the
Internet, the materials we most
need the freedom to work with
remain largely under restrictive
access, pricing and reuse policies.

6. We have 20th
century policies and
practices governing use of 21st
century information.

7. Need to optimize the system of
sharing research and education to
better suit the needs of scholars,
students, researchers – and also
for members of the general public.

9. Open Access =
Free Immediate Access
+
Full Digital Reuse

10. Great idea...

11. So How’s it Working Out?

12. More than 10,000 Open Access
journals now available…

15. More than 3,000 Open Access
repositories now available…

19. OA Policy Adoption Rising ….

21. Not only growth in National
Policies, but some Big new
Foundation players entering the
game….

25. …and they are saying exactly the
right things…

27. S’all good. Very Good. But still….

30. No matter how you slice it, OA has
a long way to go to attract critical
mass of participants.

37. These are very real barriers, yes…
but also…

38. Strategic Opportunities.

39. How do we overcome these
barriers and convince more
authors to select OA options?

40. Some are easier to counter than
others…

41. OA Journal Article Citations
Range = 36%-200%
(Data: Stevan Harnad and co-workers)

45. While others will require more
large-scale efforts…

46. …such as dealing with meaningful
changes in assessment.

47. Creation and adoption of
new/additional metrics may be
underway underway…

50. …these alone won’t break logjam.
Need to encourage large-scale
culture change.

51. Consider possible new campaigns –
like:
“Change the Form”

54. Or campaigns to encourage other
journal editors to flip to OA
models…

56. Or perhaps consider bypassing
traditional journals altogether..

58. Or other ideas….let’s use OpenCon
as lever for developing new large
scale collective actions!

59. Thank You.
Heather Joseph
Executive Director, SPARC
heather@arl.org
@hjosephdc