Open Access Research: Opportunities to broaden your impact

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1 Open Access Research: Opportunities to broaden your impact Meredith T. Niles, PhD Post-doctoral research fellow Sustainability Science Program Harvard University 2013 Switzer Fellow

2 Overview Why Switzer and open? The current state of academic publishing What is Open Access? Pathways for Open Access Open Access publishing Self-archiving Emerging trends in open access policies and funding

3 Why Switzer and Open? Belief in Individuals. Switzer Values Environmental Stewardship. Sustainability and Systems Thinking. Interdisciplinary and Innovative Problemsolving. Maximizing Impact. Accountability and Results.

4 Current state of publishing The internet changed the world, and with it was an opportunity better share research cheaper.

5 % Change Since 1986 Current state of publishing Despite the internet making publishing cheaper, journals have gotten more expensive 425% 375% 325% 275% Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, * Serial Expenditures 225% 175% 125% 75% 25% -25% Source: ARL Statistics Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C. *Includes electronic resources from onward. Monograph Expenditures Monographs Purchased

6 Current state of publishing Many for-profit publishers have high profit margins as a result

7 Current state of publishing Even though most of scientific research is publicly funded 80% of research is publicly funded 1 Source: Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into shares, HSBC Global Research, February 11, 2013:

8 "The system is absurd, and it is inflicting terrible damage on libraries We simply cannot go on paying the increase in subscription prices. In the long run, the answer will be open-access journal publishing, but we need concerted effort to reach that goal. -Robert Darnton, Director of Harvard Library Things are changing

9 Things are changing

10 Things are changing

11 Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articles with full reuse rights Berlin Declaration on Open Access Budapest Open Access Initiative

12 A history of open access

13 Many ways to Open Open Access Journals Hybrid Journals Self-Archiving Pre-prints Institutional, funder repositories

14 OA Options: OA Journals Open access journals

15 OA Options: Hybrid Journals Publish in a traditional journal with an open option and pay $2,950 for a Taylor and Francis article

16 OA Options: Self-archiving Pre-print servers Institutional repositories

Fact: Majority of publishers allow self-archiving http://www.

17 Fact: Majority of publishers allow self-archiving &mode=simple

18 Know your options for archiving

19 Funding OA Many open access journals are FREE Fee waivers (everybody s doing it) Scholarship funds Write article processing charges into your funding Of 9,645 researcher-authors who published in Open Access journals between 2009 and 2011, 83% reported obtaining publication fee assistance, with 12% of authors paying their own publication fees and 5% receiving other forms of assistance (SOAP Survey).

20 Funding OA

21 OA benefits Open Sphere of Benefits Public Good University/ Community Personal Universi

22 Personal Benefits 2014 European Commission Report: +40.3% citation advantage for freely accessible papers -27.0% citation disadvantage for non-freely accessible papers Source: European Commission Report: Proportion of Open Access Papers Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals at the European and World Levels URL: ortion-of-open-access-papers-published-in-peer-reviewed-journalsat-the

23 Growing Trend: OA Policies

24 Institutional Open Access Policies

25 Federal Open Access Policies White House directive Federal bipartisan legislation

26 Emerging Trends: State Policy

27 Emerging Trends: Funder Policies

28 What you can do Make your work open in some capacity Self archiving OA journals hybrid Encourage institutional or funder policies Get involved in policy efforts Making science more open benefits us (Twitter)

29 Knowing Your Responsibilities

30 Data from roarmap.eprints.org. Accessed on December 2, 2014 Emerging Trends: Institutional Policies 45 countries

32 OA myths

33 OA myths

34 OA myths

35 OA myths

36 OA myths

37 Many OA journals have high impact factors McKiernan, Erin (2014): Being Open As An Early-Career Reseacher - OpenCon figshare.

38 McKiernan, Erin (2014): Being Open As An Early-Career Reseacher - OpenCon figshare.

39 McKiernan, Erin (2014): Being Open As An Early-Career Reseacher - OpenCon figshare.

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Mikael Graffner University Library Open-access (OA) literature is: Digital and online Free of charge for the reader Free of most copyright and licensing restrictions Definition Concentration and price