10 things OA publishers are talking about Caroline Sutton Publisher, Co-Action Publishing President, Open Access Scholarly Publisher’s Association (OASPA) Shared under a CCBY license

Open Access – vad är det? 24 Oct. 2012

Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm

A bit about Co-Action Publishing

Founded by three former executives from academic publishing

industry

Established as Swedish limited liability company in 2007

Founding Member Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association,

OASPA, current President

Publish Open Access journals across disciplines, including Social

Sciences and the Humanities, but primarily medicine, currently 31

titles.

Strong focus on quality of experience publishing authors have when

working with us.

About half of our titles are supported by APCs,

while the other half are supported by other business

models.

Open Access Publishing Today

No longer ’why open acccess’ but how open access.

Most (?) third parties seem to understand online only and

publishing without issues.

Legacy publishers now launch open access programs.

Mega journals and large-scale projects common.

Growing number of local OA policies and governmental

policies on OA.

Growing number of OA publishers.

Standards and quality controls important

(including definitions of open).

OPEN ACCESS = Free Access + Re-use

2 Routes to Open

Access: Green (archiving)

Gold (publishing)

Achieving Open Access through the self archiving of peer-

reviewed journal articles.

Different publishers have different policies on deposition of

articles (as noted earlier in presentation)

List and policies available at SHERPA-RoMEO

(www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo)

Institutional OA policies/mandates

Re-use rights can be (and often are) limited

The ”Green Road”

The ”Gold Road”

Publish with an Open Access journal that provides:

Immediate free access

Re-use of content (CCBY license, or CCNC)

Deposit final published article in repository

Posting of articles anywhere and everywhere

OASPA standards suggest high level of openness on

other factors that enable re-use

Creative Commons Licenses enable re-use rights

Attribution 3.0

(CCBY or CCAL)

• Gaining momentum as a standard.

Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

(CCBY-NC)

* Controversial due to lack of clarity over what is commercial use & ’double-dipping’.

Read and learn about them here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

What does a CCBY license mean for authors?

You are welcome to post any version of your article – including the

final PDF – anywhere you like, including institutional and other

repositories.

Your work can be re-used – in part or in whole – by others, as long as

they cite your work as the original source. This means wider

distribution.

You can re-use your work in part or in whole, without asking

permission from the publisher.

Open Access journals, that are machine readable, tend to experience

high levels of usage. For authors, this means a greater likelihood of

work being read and cited.

What does a CCBY license imply for publishers?

New mindset

Shift from being ‘owners of content’ to ‘service providers’

Probably the most difficult aspect of OA for those transitioning from

TA to OA.

Interest in and curiosity about downstream uses of content.

Interest in alternative metrics.

1. OA publishers are service providers

2. OA publishing can be (is) sustainable

3. OA publishing can lead to new forms of market competition

4. OA publishing provides a platform for economic growth & development in other sectors

5. Downstream use of OA content

6. Alternative metrics

http://impactstory.org/

http://about.orcid.org/

7. What is open?

Public Library of

Science OA lock

OAS Cover

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http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/

OAS– Front Page

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This Guide is a Collaboration Among:

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Open Access Spectrum – HowOpenIsIt? Grid

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8. Standards and quality

Criteria

A credible editorial board listed with full names and affiliations.

Appropriate licensing policy, clearly visible on website and individual articles (on at least one journal).

Any fees should be stated clearly and posted where they can be easily found. If a journal/publisher applies no fees, this should also be stated on the website.

Clearly defined peer review process.

A business address is listed.

A complaints address is listed.

Can you contact the editor directly?

Information on the journal/publishing organization’s ownership structure is available.

OASPA further looks at:

Any stray information or items that would confuse readers that this is an OA journal? (e.g. RightsLink left on).

Are there any claims against this journal/publisher being made in various forums? Do these warrant consideration?

What indexing or database inclusion does the publisher/journal list and can this be verified?

Does the publisher make claims that seem unrealistic (e.g. peer review in 2 days)? Are claims supported (e.g. published manuscripts include submission, acceptance and publication dates).

Are articles available in XML as well as other formats? Lack of an XML file does not imply wrong-doing, but indicates lower quality as articles are not machine readable.

Does the publisher have a preservation strategy? (e.g. are they a member of LOCKSS, CLOCKS, Portico, etc.?)

The journal(s) have a clean layout.

There is an appropriate use of language on the website?

If an individual is listed as Editor-in-Chief for more than one journal is this explained? Does it seem reasonable? Are the fields related?

9. New infrastructures to support the

delivery of OA content

10. Publishing as a part of the research process

Caroline.Sutton@co-action.net

THANK YOU!