What's Next for Open Access--Part 2
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Mark Ware shares insights from his research on the open access market and the road ahead. While open access models have been evolving, gold open access models will become more efficient through offsetting, bundling, membership models, and payment management systems. Publishers will focus more on services for researchers and data services as open research creates new opportunities. However, issues could arise from the pressure on library budgets as article volumes and open access grows. Various political, social, and technological pressures will also influence the future by changing research behaviors and attitudes toward information sharing.
What's Next for Open Access--Part 2
- 1. WHAT’S NEXT FOR OPEN ACCESS? Answers from Industry Expert Mark Ware, Ware Consulting
- 2. To map out the road ahead, Mark Ware, Director and Owner of Mark Ware Consulting, shares insights from his recent research on the open access (OA) market.
- 3. Scholarly publishing has been on the fast road to change.
- 4. While we’ve all seen the signposts for OA for some time now, the road ahead will include curves that affect publishers, researchers, and the market as a whole.
- 5. We will soon see gold OA models that are more efficient, like: • Offsetting and bundling • Membership models • Pre-payment options • Institutional accounts • Payment management systems
- 6. Publishers report a sharpening focus on services for researchers/authors and on data services, as open research creates a whole new environment.
- 7. However, issues arise when you combine that growth with the pressure on library budgets. Publishers say the growth in article volume – 3 or 4% annually – is manageable.
- 8. Other forces driving the future of OA include: • Social pressures • Technology pressures • Political pressures
- 9. These all intersect to change research behavior: • Shifting attitudes toward information sharing • Greater tolerance for informal materials
- 10. Researchers are shaping the debate about OA. • 5 to 6 million researchers have joined ResearchGate • 16 million-plus researchers have joined academia.edu
- 11. The scholarly publishing sector is likely to see continued consolidation. Economies of scale are steering publishers toward sharing tools, social networking and collaboration platforms. The greatest opportunity is for a small number of leading players.
- 12. However, publishers overall say the system is in evolution, not revolution.
- 13. The journal retains its relevance and importance in the research community. Indeed, if anything, it’s more important than ever.
- 14. With lower barriers to entry, OA is driving increased competition between publishers, and it is increasingly the norm among new journals.
- 15. Standardized metadata around Gold OA processes could help institutions get a better understanding of spending.
- 16. The Green OA landscape remains fragmented, with difficult discoverability and unpredictable quality. Publishers, institutions, and funders could develop a model that better serves researchers without compromising the subscription model.
- 17. A range of new services and processes are enhancing the traditional research cycle (gathering, analyzing, and publishing data). gathering analy zing p ublishing
- 18. OA will share the road with subscriptions, more or less indefinitely.
- 19. Standards will be critical to: • Achieve a viable OA marketplace • Drive efficiency improvements for publishers and institutions • Create the opportunity for wholly new services
- 20. To learn more about the OA road ahead, download “10 Predictions for 2016.” copyright.com