A quick workshop for RSM

1. Access a world of open
research
Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_Joe
Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition
Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button
RSM Workshop

2. www.righttoresearch.org
Why is accessing and using
cutting edge Research and
Education materials
important to you?

3. Launched in Summer 2009.
Built around the Student Statement
on the Right to Research: access to
research is a student right
International alliance of 77 graduate &
undergraduate student organizations,
representing nearly 7 million students
We Educate + Advocate for Open Access

4. www.righttoresearch.org

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6. What’s going wrong?
www.righttoresearch.org

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€ 15.234
Prices generated with Elsevier’s pricing tool, for an institutional subscription with more than 5 users for an
academic institution in Poland with less than 10,000. Pricing tool URL:
http://www.myelsevier.com/browse/product_details.jsp?productId=ELS_AG_BS-PRD-00942#

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$39,082
Robert Darnton, “The Library: Three Jeremiads,” New York Review of Books, December 23, 2010
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jeremiads

11. Average journal price in Health Sciences:
www.righttoresearch.org
Chemistry
= $4,450
Physics
= $3,893
Agriculture
= $1,441
= $1,482
Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey
“The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal,
April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013

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-25%
25%
75%
125%
175%
225%
275%
325%
375%
425%
1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010
%ChangeSince1986
Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.
*Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward.
Graph 2
Monograph and Serial Costs
in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011* Serial
Expenditures
(+402%)
Monograph
Expenditures
(+71%)
Monographs
Purchased
(10%)

13. Publishing obscure academic journals is
that rare thing in the media industry:
“a license to print money.”
www.righttoresearch.org
The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574

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Publishing is big business…
39%
40-50%

15. Date taken from on August 2nd https://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/

16. Is there a reason
publishing should be
this expensive?
www.righttoresearch.org

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http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200

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80%
of research is
publicly
funded
1 Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into shares,
HSBC Global Research, February 11, 2013:
https://www.research.hsbc.com/midas/Res/RDV?ao=20&key=RxArFbnG1P&n=360010.PDF
1

19. Shouldn’t our publishing system
what we entrust to distribute the
knowledge we work so hard to create
share our values?
www.righttoresearch.org

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Free, immediate online access
to scientific & scholarly articles
with full reuse rights
As defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative

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168x faster
26,667x cheaper
400x more sensitive
100x more selective
Current test (ELISA):
$800, high false positives
Jack’s test:
$.03, >99% accuracy, 5 min

24. “I used [free, online articles] religiously. Just
because, in most online databases, articles cost
about $35, and there are only about 10 pages…
My research should serve as a testament to free
online research (...) It was hard to get what I needed
without the costs. People should take note and
because of this project, we should make a move
toward more inexpensive or free Online research.”
- Jack Andraka
Interview with Vancouver Observer
www.vancouverobserver.com/world/how-aaron-swartz-paved-way-jack-andrakas-revolutionary-cancer-test

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Source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150409/17514230608/dont-think-open-access-is-important-
it-might-have-prevented-much-ebola-outbreak.shtml

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Two paths to Open Access
Self-
archiving
Open Access
Journals

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X 2,000
1. Publish (almost) anywhere,
deposit into an open-access repository

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2. Publish in an open-access journal
X >10000

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2. Publish in an open-access journal
$ $or

31. Data, Textbooks,
Lectures, Code, we can
share them all.
Open Data and Open
Education
www.righttoresearch.org

32. Students are setting the
default to
Open
www.righttoresearch.org

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1,000+
Congressional lobbying visits
over the past 4.5 years

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36. i) confirms the importance of students having access to research
journals and articles as part of their training;
ii) notes the high cost to institutions and individuals when accessing
scholarly literature;
iii) proposes that this could hinder medical students in their
development as ‘The Doctor as the Scientist’ as well as developing
an evidence based clinical approach;
iv) welcomes and endorses the Right To Research Coalition’s
statement on Open Access to research literature.
www.righttoresearch.org
June 25, 2012

37. oab
www.sparc.arl.org

38. But what can you do?

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200,000+ views
bit.ly/OAexplained

41. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org

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Thank you and Questions?
How you can talk to me
Joe@righttoresearch.org
@Mcarthur_Joe
More information
www.righttoresearch.org
www.sparcoopen.org
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