Open access investment at the local level
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The document discusses open access investment strategies and initiatives aimed at improving access and affordability in scholarly communication, particularly from the perspective of academic libraries and non-profits. Key themes include developing criteria for decision-making, enhancing workflows, and promoting collaboration among stakeholders. The Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) is highlighted as a crucial pilot initiative that fosters diverse models and partnerships to bridge gaps in open access publishing.
Open access investment at the local level
- 1. Open access investment at the local level Sharing diverse tactics to improve access and affordability SLIDES: http://ucblib.link/acrl2021_oa
- 2. Learning Objectives ● Describe key open access investment considerations and processes from the perspective of an academic library, a non-profit and an open project. ● Understand priorities, workflows, and collaboration opportunities ● Participants will take home strategies and best practices for approaching open access investment conversations at their own institution.
- 3. Bios ● Sam Teplitzky (moderator), Open Science Librarian, UC Berkeley ● Tim Vollmer (presenter), Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian, UC Berkeley ● Sharla Lair (presenter), Senior Strategist, Open Access & Scholarly Communication Initiatives at LYRASIS ● Tom Narock (presenter), Assistant Professor of Data Science at Goucher College ● Justin Gonder (presenter), Senior Product Manager, Publishing, California Digital Library
- 4. ● Align with UCB Library Priority: Advance Open Access Scholarship ● Large UC ecosystem of OA ● “Establish criteria, policies, and processes to advance open access investment decision-making — including by developing criteria to guide Library investment in sustainable open access publishing.” Photo by Susan Gold on Unsplash UC Berkeley Open Access Investment Working Group
- 5. What we did 1. Developing the criteria 2. Deciding on process & workflow for review Photo by Girl with red hat on Unsplash
- 6. Selector survey Desk research Thematic grouping 1. Developing the criteria
- 7. OA Investment Criteria Impact ● specific positive disciplinary impact ● provide indicators of faculty impact and/or student success ● provides or improves access to unique content or services not otherwise available Sustainability & governance ● contribute to sustainability of an important project/initiative ● mission-driven to serve scholarly researchers and/or the public interest ● commitment to advancing social justice and diversity ● Not-for-profit ● demonstrates operational and financial stability, or has a plan to do so ● provides disclosure and transparency in finances and governance ● open access to content/data/software under open licenses ● meets or exceeds relevant technical standards UCB focused ● supports UCB mission and Library strategic priorities and values ● endorsed or led by academic community members, especially UCB scholars ● supports/promotes reputation & visibility of UCB scholarship ● reduce access barriers to the UCB community ● reduce financial barriers, with savings passed on to UCB community ● meets or exceeds existing UCB infrastructure requirements
- 8. 2. Process for review Workflows Evaluation table
- 9. Photo by Susan Gold on Unsplash Optimistic outcomes ● Increase support for OA ● Improve communication of values and requirements between library and OA providers ● Share information and education on OA to library workers, faculty, university community Thanos Pal on Unsplash
- 11. The Problem ● Increase in OA programs ● One-off OA investments ● Lack of sufficient information ● Administrative hurdles “The open content landscape is massive and unwieldy.” From OA in the Open: Community Needs and Perspectives (2018) https://osf.io/preprints/lissa/g972d
- 12. Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) ● Connects multiple stakeholders ● Experimental and incubation space to test new models ● Centralizes administration and funding at multiple scales ● Includes bespoke programs, output from smaller publishers, and niche scholarly output ● Enables flexibility and equity in investment ● Encourages mission matching
- 13. OACIP: The Pilot Pilot tests: ● Criteria ● Infrastructure ● Outreach ● Participation Pilot Partners: ● LYRASIS + TSPOA ● Two Journals: ○ Environmental Humanities (Duke University Press) - $30,000 Goal ○ Combinatorial Theory (eScholarship Publishing) - $25,000 Goal
- 14. OACIP: The Future Universal hub that connects multiple stakeholders at multiple scales
- 15. EarthArXiv.org A preprint server for Earth and Planetary Sciences - online since October 2017 - 2,043 contributions (as of March 2021) - accept both preprints and postprints - c. 1600 downloads monthly
- 16. Earth Science categories Planetary Science categories
- 17. EarthArXiv.org community driven – everybody can get involved! Volunteer Advisory Council and Moderation Crew
- 18. EarthArXiv.org moderation policy What does EarthArXiv accept? • Research articles • Review papers • Case studies • Technical notes (e.g. new instrumentation or analysis methods) • Confirmatory studies • So-called ‘null’ results (i.e. results that not supporting a hypothesis) • Dataset description papers What does EarthArXiv not accept? • Papers reading as a personal attack, airing of grievances, or insulting to a group/class of people. Racist and derogatory language will not be tolerated • Commentaries and opinion pieces • Posters (cf. ESSOAr) • Theses and course projects (see www.thesiscommons.org) • Software articles
- 19. EarthArXiv.org moderation policy Publication and hosting of your paper • Upon moderation, EarthArXiv agrees to publish your paper by assigning a DOI • EarthArXiv is not a journal and does not evaluate the scientific quality of a paper. • EarthArXiv will provide free online hosting of your paper as long as it is operational Fraud and Plagiarism EarthArXiv takes fraud and plagiarism very seriously. Should the Board deem fraud or plagiarism to have occurred, the paper will be immediately removed from EarthArXiv
- 20. https://eartharxiv.org/kftsv/ ● Initially, postprints outnumbered preprints ● By the end of year 1, EarthArXiv was (and remains) predominantly preprints ● EarthArXiv averaged 40 submissions per month in its first year
- 21. Since the first year... ● Monthly submissions have increased from 40 to ~70 ● As of Fall 2019, 71% of the authors at EarthArXiv are distinct ● This is slightly above other COS-based preprint communities which cluster between 57–69%
- 22. As determined by author assigned keywords (last updated 2019)
- 23. Join us, follow us! @eartharxiv Make your work BETTER! Preprints lead to feedback & improve your work
- 24. The transition to California Digital Library: • Became official in October 2020 • Working with Birkbeck University, London / OLH team, CDL launched an MVP preprint server on the open source Janeway platform. • More importantly, CDL’s vision for open access and open governance aligned with EarthArXiv https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/why-i-love-pre-prints-9d727eeb22b8 Publishing pre-prints sends a message I want to send.They say I am willing to talk. They say I want to participate in open culture. Please read my stuff.
- 25. Discussion
- 26. Resources ● UC Berkeley Open Access Investment Working Group Report: http://ucblib.link/oaiwg-report ● Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) ○ OACIP Webpage: https://www.lyrasis.org/content/Pages/oacip.aspx ○ Press Release about Pilot Project: https://tspoa.org/2020/12/09/announcing-the-open-access-community-investment-program/ ○ Kennison, R., Ruttenberg, J., Shorish, Y., & Thompson, L. (2019, September 11). OA in the Open: Community Needs and Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/g972d ● EarthArXiv - eartharxiv.org SLIDES: http://ucblib.link/acrl2021_oa
- 27. Contact Tim Vollmer: tvollmer@berkeley.edu Sam Teplitzky: steplitz@berkeley.edu Sharla Lair: Sharla.Lair@lyrasis.org Tom Narock: Thomas.Narock@goucher.edu Justin Gonder: Justin.Gonder@ucop.edu