presentation of open access publishing in research.

1. OpenAccess
J u l i e n C o l o m b
M o d i f i e d f r o m a p r e s e n t a t i o n o f
L I S A M AT T H I A S – F R E I E U N I V E R S I T Ä T B E R L I N –
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Open-access (OA) literature is
- digital,
- online,
- free of charge, and
- free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

3. P O W E R
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How many of you have ever hit a
paywall when trying to access a
research article?

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video introduction
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
time_continue=503&v=L5rVH1KGBCY
• License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
• Not easily accessible (no download button)
• No raw data

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M O S T
Scholarly research remains
inaccessible to most people on this
planet.
O N LY A R O U N D
2 8 %
Of scholarly literature is Open
Access.
Piwowar H, Priem J, Larivière V, Alperin JP, Matthias L, Norlander B, Farley A, West J, Haustein S. (2018) The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access
articles. PeerJ 6:e4375 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375
The Access Problem

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“Academic publishing is the perfect business model to
make a lot of money. You have the producer and
consumer as the same person: the researcher. And the
researcher has no idea how much anything costs.”
BRIAN NOSEK
U N I V E R S I T Y O F V I R G I N I A ,
C E N T E R F O R O P E N
S C I E N C E

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What do publishers do ?
- organisation of peer review
- copy editing editing (xml version creation)
- distribution
- provide prestige
- subscription negotiations and lobbying
- create the paywall
- create a way to pay to pass the paywall

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Profit Margins
0
10
20
30
40
BMW Google Apple Springer Elsevier
Adapted from https://alexholcombe.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/publisherprofitsincludingplos2015edition1.png

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Economics
costs
- 400-600 € for publishing a paper
- multiplied by the rejection factor
price
- what people will be ready to pay
- prestige has no price (every journal is a monopoly)

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See CC-BY movie:
https://paywallthemovie.com

11. P O W E R
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Open Access
G O L D ( A P C g o l d , d i a m o n d
Publishing your scholarly work in an OA journal or
as an OA monograph.
G R E E N
Providing OA to a version of a work published in a
closed-access journal or with a closed-access
publisher.
B R O N Z E
BRONZE: free to read
B L A C K
BLACK: illegal copies (ResearchGate, sci-hub)

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The OA
Citation
Advantage
17
7
46
Studies that found citation advantage
Studies that were inconclusive, found non-significant advantage etc.
Studies that found no citation advantage
Tennant JP, Waldner F, Jacques DC et al. (2016) The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review [version 3; referees: 4 approved, 1 approved with
reservations]. F1000Research 5:632. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.8460.3

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Gold Open Access: Common Concerns
PAY I N G TO
P U B L I S H
Majority of OA journals does not
charge APCs.
A U T H O R R I G H T S
Author rights still protected,
granting greater reuse right to
readers.
AVA I L A B I L I T Y
OA articles and monographs
subject to the same editorial &
peer review standards as closed-
access counterparts.
Q U A L I T Y
OA does not influence print sales.
Consult publisher.
R O YA LT I E S
Considerable differences
regarding the availability of OA
journals.

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Early-career researchers
• What do we want?
And build our academic profile.
G E T P U B L I S H E D
…
F I N I S H T H AT D I S S E R TAT I O N
Within or outside of academia.
F I N D A P E R M A N E N T J O B

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Green Open Access: Common Practices
W H E N & W H AT
Check the publisher’s self-archiving
policies to know when & which version
you are allowed to deposit.
W H E R E
Institutional or disciplinary repositories

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Green Open Access: Common Practices
• Preprints
• Bioarchive
• peerJ preprints
• …
W H E N & W H AT
Check the publisher’s self-archiving
policies to know when & which version
you are allowed to deposit.
W H E R E
Institutional or disciplinary repositories

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30 Citations 28 Citations
PREPRINT JOURNAL ARTICLE
https://www.altmetric.com/details/23358582 https://www.altmetric.com/details/33152539

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SUPPORTS EXPORT &
HARVESTING
LONG-TERM
PRESERVATION
BUSINESS MODEL
FULFILLS FUNDER OA
POLICIES
N o N o Ye s
N o N o Ye s
C o m m e r c i a l C o m m e r c i a l N o n - p r o f i t
N o N o Ye s
Adapted from: https://openreflections.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/academia-edu-and-self-branding

22. P O W E R
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Benefits of Open Access
Fast communication
Maximize visibility (and therefore citation)
Facilitate collaboration
Increase efficiency

24. P O W E R
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The future ?

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast
• PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast
• PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied
• New business models are developed

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast
• PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied
• New business models are developed
• Open peer review is coming

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast
• PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied
• New business models are developed
• Open peer review is coming
• Eventually, we will achieve full, free OA

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The future ?
• Gold OA may not be cheaper !
• It is a monopoly industry: prices do not go along costs
• The pressure to publish in "high impact journals" did not change
• Good news
• Funders are pushing for OA
• DORA: limiting the importance of journal brands
• The industry is changing fast
• PloS was a huge commercial success = to be copied
• New business models are developed
• Open peer review is coming
• Eventually, we will achieve full, free OA
Because YOU will not care about journal prestige!