Open Access Symposium 2013 held at TU Delft Library on 24 October 2013, presentation by Just de Leeuwe

1. Is Open Access reaching the
tipping point?
Just de Leeuwe-TU Delft Library
31-10-13
Delft
University of
Technology
Challenge the future

2. Overview
• A decade of Open Access
• Open Access at TU Delft
• Open Access challenges
Open Access
2

3. Early days
•
•
•
•
•
•
Explosion prices sc journals
Sentiment against publishers
Internet opportunities/preprints servers/infrastructure OAI PMH
Western hemisphere
‘Research funded with tax money should be in the public domain’
No institutional funding, no mandates
Open Access ideology rather than a business model
Open Access
3

4. Current state
•
•
•
•
•
Market share scientific publications OA increases
Huge differences in adaption OA different fields of science
OA worldwide phenomenon, strong in emerging economies
Variety of business models, business opportunities
Expansion Open Access to Open Science, data and education
The idealistic concept has become an industry
Open Access
4

5. Status
•EU Survey OA 2004-2011
•22 fields knowledge
•40% peer-reviewed articles OA
fields
general science and technology,
biomedical research, biology,
mathematics and statistics
Open Access
5

6. Gold vs green
Open Access
6

7. Gold vs Green
9.900+ OA journals
9.900+ OA journals
in DOAJ
in DOAJ
Open Access
7

8. Stakeholder-Publishers
Open Access
8

9. Open Access
9

10. Bottlenecks
• Traditional lucrative business model
subscriptions alive, paywall=commercial
• Exclusive transfer of rights hinders Open
Access and reuse of publications=IP
• Publishing and citations for scientists is still
crucial, not the way of dissemination=structure
• stakeholders interests unbalanced
Open Access
10

11. Stakeholder Publishers tradition and
commercial consolidation
•
•
•
•
•
Taylor and Francis, 1798, UK
John Wiley & Sons, 1807, US
Springer, 1842, Germany
Nature Publishing Group, 1869, UK
Elsevier Science, 1880, The Netherlands
Open Access
11

12. Stakeholder Publishers OA business
model
•
•
•
•
Biomed, 2000, UK
PLoS, 2000, US
Copernicus, 2001, Germany
Hindawi, 1997, Egypt
Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association, 2008
Open Access
12

13. Stakeholder publishers-share OA
Portfolio Elsevier 2500+*6%, Springer 2400, *6%
Wiley 1500,*2% NPG 64, *26%
Open Access
13

14. Publishers lingo Open Access
Open Access
14

15. Elsevier Pure Open
Elsevier Pure Open
Access 162
Access 162
Elsevier Free access 276
Elsevier Free access 276
titles
titles
variety definitions
variety definitions
Open Access
15

16. Stakeholder Publishers
Pure Open Access
Open Access
16

17. Journals support Open Access
Stakeholders Publishers
Hybrid OA
double
double
dipping
dipping
Open Access
17

18. Stakeholder-Publishers trends
20.000+ articles
single year
Open Access
18

19. Stakeholder publishers-trends
Open Access
19

20. Stakeholder-Funders
Running 2014-2020, budget over 70 billion
Running 2014-2020, budget over 70 billion
Open Access
20

21. Stakeholderfunders
Open Access
21

22. Stakeholders
scientists
Open Access
22

23. delayed
delayed
paywall
paywall
Open Access
23

24. Delft
• Where do we stand as a university
in this complex situation?
• Observer or Actor?
Open Access
24

25. Open Access
25

26. Delft Repositories infrastructure
Total: 9 TU Delft
repositories
1 in progress
87.000+ active records
105.000+ files,
4.5 mill page views
Open Access
26

27. Where are changes & can we
deliver added value?
• Provide content services
• Make stakeholders partners
• Become producer and funder scientific output
• Advise in copyrights & quality issues
• Use channels of communication
Open Access
27

28. Content Services-Enhanced publications
3TU Datacentre
3TU Datacentre
Open Access
28

29. Partnersbuilding repositories
•Subject repositories Cranfield, RWS
•Hosted repositories IHE, Philips,TNO
Open Access
29

30. PartnersTU Delft
Open Access
30

31. Partners OA fees
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
SCOAP3-OA Particle physics
Royal Society Chemistry*Gold for Gold
PLoS- (in progress)
Biomed, Springer15% discount
SAGE, 90% discount
IEEE OA program (in progress)
SURF market-licenses
Handling fees for all faculties?
Open Access
31

32. Partners -financial support
Open Access
32

33. Open Access Publishing
Open Access
33

34. Funding books
Open Access
34

35. Open Access-publishing
Open Access
35

36. Open Access-publishing OJS
Open Access
36

37. Copyrights
Know your rights!
Open Access
37

38. Quality issues
Predatory
Predatory
publishers
publishers
Vanity
Vanity
publishers
publishers
Academic
reputation
Open Access
38

39. Make it
Make it
personal
personal
Open Access
39

40. “Open access is a matter of fairness. Not every scientist
“Open access is a matter of fairness. Not every scientist
has access to expensive journals due to the financial
has access to expensive journals due to the financial
situation of his/her institution or country. Hence, many
situation of his/her institution or country. Hence, many
scientists just have no chance to be up to date with the
scientists just have no chance to be up to date with the
newest developments and a large pool of creativity is not
newest developments and a large pool of creativity is not
used efficiently. For us authors, open access helps to
used efficiently. For us authors, open access helps to
spread our research faster and more broadly. Overall, it is
spread our research faster and more broadly. Overall, it is
a win-win situation”.
a win-win situation”.
Frank Hollmann, Assistant professor Biotechnology,
Frank Hollmann, Assistant professor Biotechnology,
Applied Sciences
Applied Sciences
Open Access
40

41. Conclusion
• No tipping point yet but promising signs
• Better balance rights & business models
academia-publishers
• Commitment academic community
• Be an actor!
Open Access
41

42. Quiz
#1 What was the number of OA Journals the DOAJ
started with?
..
.
A) 650
B) 1500
C) 300
Open Access
42

43. Quiz
#2) Which country in Europa holds de highest number of
OA titles?
.
.
a)Netherlands
b)Germany
c)United Kingdom
.
Open Access
43

44. Quiz
#3 In which city took the Declaration on Open Access to
Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities place, in
2003 ?
.
..
a) Berlin
b) Paris
c) New York
Open Access
44

45. Quiz
#4 There is a universal platform for OA-Books, what is
the name?
.
.
.
a) Directory of Open Access Books
b) Inventory of OA monographs
c) Open Access books online
Open Access
45

46. Knock out question
What is the precise number of published articles in PLoS
One, the largest single journal on earth, in 2012?
Open Access
46