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- 1. The rationale, role and working methods of open access journals 10/12/2010 Caroline Sutton, Publisher Co-Action Publishing ISAJE Meeting , Trieste; 25-26 September 2009
- 3. Currently publish 5 journals and 2 books
- 4. In process of launching/taking over 7 journals
- 5. Offer consulting and support services through Open Access Solutions
- 6. Founding member and current President of Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA10/12/2010
- 10. A recent study conducted by Public Knowledge Project found that a majority of the 1000 journals who replied to a survey (out of 4000) were not in the DOAJ.
- 11. In 2008 Scopus listed over 90 000 OA articles, amounting to 6% of the Scopus content.
- 13. The Rationale: Why open access? 10/12/2010
- 14. Suggested benefits 10/12/2010 Visibility High Impact Easy Archiving Democracy/Reduce the digital divide Re-use of one’s work
- 15. 10/12/2010 ”serials crisis” Reproduced under CC Attribution Share Alike 2.5 license; Image by Nino Barbieri, Jan 2004, Wikimedia Commons
- 16. 10/12/2010 Price per Page Increases over 7 year period: T&F 75,0 % Blackwell 36,3 % Springer 26,5 % Elsevier 16,5 % Wiley 8,4 % Sage 104,4 %* Average price per page for medicine in GBP Ref: ”Trends in Scholarly Journal Pricing 2000-2006” Sonya White and Claire Creaser, March 2007. Commissioned by Oxford University Press * On SSH, medical publishing from 2007
- 18. 10/12/2010 *Reproduced from Wikemedia under the conditions of the GNU General Public License Exquisite-network.png Web.2 WIKIWORLD Google Planet
- 19. 10/12/2010 *Reproduced from Wikemedia under the conditions of the GNU General Public License Exquisite-network.png THE ROLE: ENABLING E-SCIENCE
- 20. 10/12/2010 ”There is a need to change the metaphor behind our understanding of what knowledge is.” .....John Wilbanks, Director Science Commons
- 21. Knowledge as ”paper” Knowledge as ”product” and ”property” Created by scientists Owned by publishers Archived by libraries -- John Wilbanks, Science Commons, presentation at IATUL, June 2007 10/12/2010
- 22. 10/12/2010 Subscriptions Licensing fees
- 23. 10/12/2010 Copyright (does not allow the re-use of text freely)
- 24. Knowledge = NETWORK Knowledge = infrastructure ”A better reflection of the reality of knowledge” -- John Wilbanks, Science Commons, presentation at IATUL, June 2007 10/12/2010
- 25. ”A social network diagram”, Screenshot taken by Darwin Peacock, accessed through Wikimedia; distributed under a CCL 3.0. 10/12/2010
- 26. 10/12/2010
- 27. 10/12/2010 ”Your OA publisher helps you connect and share with the researchers in your life.” And the ones you don’t even know about!
- 30. WORKING METHODS: Open Access in Practice 10/12/2010
- 31. OPEN ACCESS = Free Access + Re-use 10/12/2010 Libre Open Access
- 33. (CCBY or CCAL)
- 36. Copyright Notice Authors contributing to Global Health Action agree to publish their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license, allowing third parties to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it, under the condition that the authors are given credit, that the work is not used for commercial purposes, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear. Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to Co-Action Publishing. However, authors are required to transfer copyrights associated with commercial use to the Publisher. Revenues from commercial sales are used to keep down the publication fees. Moreover, a major portion of the profits generated from commercial sales is placed in a fund to cover publication fees for researchers from developing nations and, in some cases, for young researchers. 10/12/2010
- 37. 10/12/2010
- 39. Submission fees
- 40. Grants
- 41. In-kind support
- 42. Patronage
- 44. Membership dues
- 46. Future consortia deals?No one model at present
- 47. 10/12/2010 Impact : What does this mean with Open Access?
- 48. 10/12/2010 We judge the worth of a paper on the basis of the impact factor of the journal in which it was published. Recommended reading: Adler, R., Ewing, J. Taylor, P. Citation statistics. A report from the International Mathematical Union. http://www.mathunion.org/publications/report/citationstatistics/ Browman, H. I., Stergiou, K.I.Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, Theme Section. The Use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance., Vol. 8, no. 8 http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esep/v8/n1/ * Slide borrowed from Mark Patterson, PLoS
- 50. Many still do not have an impact factor
- 51. Other OA journals have achieved very high impact factors
- 54. 10/12/2010 If the impact factor is how we have defined impact because of the tools available to us, how CAN we measure impact today? What tools are available?
- 56. Page views
- 60. Press coverage
- 61. Comments
- 62. User ratingsNot an alternative metric : ”Our idea is to throw up a bunch of metrics and see what people use.” (Binfield in The Scientist)
- 63. Example Food & Nutrition Research OA from Jan 2008 10/12/2010
- 65. Manuscripts submissions were modest.
- 66. Few subscriptions outside the society subscriptions.
- 67. Journal was regarded as a member benefit.
- 68. The society felt that it was time to either try something radical or drop the journal altogether.
- 69. They chose to drop the journal as it was and re-launch a new OA journal with a new and more international title.10/12/2010
- 70. Universe of a Subscription Journal Access only for those who have a subscription – for Food & Nutrition Research, approx. 700-800 10/12/2010
- 71. Universe of the OA Journal Researchers from related fields Healthcare Workers – esp Physicians & Nutritionists Nutrition advocates Related professions General citizens interested in their own nutrition Industries with links Gov’t agencies & policy-makers Pharmaceutical Co (e.g. Novartis Medical Nutrition) Print and online magazines 10/12/2010
- 74. 113 662 downloaded articlesVisitors were from 176 countries, with the US accounting for 20% of traffic. 10/12/2010
- 76. Few subscriptions, poor ms flow – OA can give the journal a lift if OA is marketed as an advantage of publishing with the journal. May need to choose an economic model that subsidizes publication costs for at least an interum period.
- 77. Multi-disciplinary journals – Good OA candidates. These have traditionally been very difficult to build subscription bases for and are better suited to OA.
- 78. Currently many OA journals are in STM fields (due to pressures from funding agencies and the launch of the commercial publishers that focus only on STM), but there is no reason why SS and HUM can’t be OA. University presses seem to be focusing on these. STM journals seem to have an advantage due to wider array of funding sources.10/12/2010