Open access - where are we now and where to from here?
- 1. Open access - where are we now and where to from here? Virginia Barbour Executive Officer, AOASG; Chair, COPE 0000-0002-2358-2440 eo@aoasg.org.au @ginnybarbour
- 2. My interests • Executive Officer, Australasian Open Access Support Group • Chair, Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) • Involved in a number of publishing initiatives, including EQUATOR, AllTrials • Joint appointment at QUT between Office of Research Ethics and Integrity, and Division of Technology, Information and Learning Support • Adjunct/honorary Professor at UQ and Griffith • Previously Chief Editor PLOS Medicine, then Medicine and Biology Editorial Director, PLOS
- 3. Australasian Open Access Support Group – AOASG Information Advocacy Resources Discussions Graphics Blogs, Twitter @openaccess_oz www.aoasg.org.au Member Institutions ANU Charles Sturt Curtin Griffith Macquarie Melbourne Newcastle QUT Victoria UWA CONZUL
- 4. AOASG supporting Institutions ANU Charles Sturt Curtin UWA Griffith QUT Newcastle Macquarie Victoria Council of New Zealand University Librarians - CONZUL
- 5. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Purple_rock_crabs_(Leptograpsus_variegatus)_lurking_in_a_cre vice_under_Lion_Rock.jpg Open access – what’s that???
- 6. Fig 3. Percentage of papers published by the five major publishers, by discipline in the Natural and Medical Sciences, 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 We are at a critical time in publishing
- 7. But we also have a diverse ecosystem developing…
- 8. …and we are in a phase of accelerated innovation Bianca Kramer & Jeroen Bosman Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9), Geneva, June 18, 2015
- 9. How innovation in infrastructure helps tell a story about penguin poo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adelie_penguin_(Pygoscelis_adeli ae),_walking.jpg
- 12. So we have a lot of the core infrastructure in place • OA definitions • Machine and human readable licenses • Unique author ID • Unique article & sub- article ID • Accurate crosslinking • Article versioning
- 13. Live areas 1. The need for proper licensing and legal structures
- 14. Open Access = free access + reuse rights + author attribution rights + permanent archiving
- 15. Licenses as essential infrastructure http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
- 16. Knowing the license means you know what you can do with a research output
- 17. Live areas 1. The need for proper licensing and legal structures 2. An innovation culture
- 18. Open access to publications is one of many “open” innovation initiatives Data Rights Publishing
- 19. There is now a complex OA publishing ecosystem • Preprints • Journals • Archiving • Book & monograph publishing
- 21. • A sustainable route to OA for HSS books (long-form publications) • Spread costs of OA across many institutions globally • Ensuring that HSS long-form publications are as accessible as OA science journals • Help libraries to maximize the positive impact of spending on books Knowledge Unlatched
- 22. The 2013/14 Pilot • Proof of concept for Knowledge Unlatched • 28 new books from 13 publishers • Literature; History; Politics; Media & Communications • Needed support from at least 200 libraries from around the world to become OA • If 200 libraries pledged cost per library $60 per book • Nearly 300 libraries pledged. Cost per library $43 per book
- 23. • 8 packages of ~10 books each • Libraries must support at least 6 of the 8 packages on offer • Average price per book: $49.88 (if 300 libraries participate). • 28 Feb 2016 – pledging period ends • March/April 2016 – unlatching of books (or upon publication) Round 2 Details
- 24. Innovations circumventing traditional publishers – pre & post publication peer review
- 25. Live areas 1. The need for proper licensing and legal structures 2. An innovation culture 3. Coordinated, high level policy action
- 26. The flow of money is complex Lawson, Stuart; Gray, Jonathan; Mauri, Michele (2015): Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing. . http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1601864
- 27. OA in Australia and New Zealand • Universities predominantly green policies via institutional repositories • Some institutions support Gold OA publishing • Green OA policies from major funders, NHMRC and ARC
- 28. OA policies in Australia & New Zealand Vary in strength and specificity http://roarmap.eprints.org/
- 29. Open data at Federal level “At a minimum, Australian Government entities will publish appropriately anonymised government data by default: …under a Creative Commons By Attribution licence unless a clear case is made to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for another open licence”
- 30. Open access to publications is a core part of research infrastructure globally
- 31. Recent global OA developments • HEFCE: starting April 2016, – “to be eligible for submission to the next REF, authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts must have been deposited in an institutional or subject repository.” • League of European Universities’ Statement for the 2016 Dutch EU Presidency – “Christmas is over! ”Research funding should go to research, not to publishers • Max Planck Digital Library publishes model of viability of journal flipping model at country level • Austrian Open Access network published 16 step plan for Gold OA in Austria by 2025 • Dutch national OA deals with Elsevier, Springer and Wiley • Berlin 12, December 2015 meeting aimed to get consensus of next global move in OA
- 32. 2016 will be the year to watch in OA! www.aoasg.org.au @openaccess_oz