ifmsa euregme workshop 2015

Open Access - an issue of

Equality

Joe McArthur (@R2RC)Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition

Co-founder, Open Access Button

EuRegMe - IFMSA

April 27, 2015

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

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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

Average journal price in Chemistry:

Biology

= $2,520

Geography

= $1,308

Physics

= $3,870

= $4,215

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Source: Library Journal 2014 Periodicals Pricing Survey“Steps Down the Evolutionary Road | Periodicals Price Survey 2014,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal,

April 11, 2014: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/04/publishing/steps-down-the-evolutionary-road-periodicals-price-survey-2014/#_

Source: Library Journal 2014 Periodicals Pricing Survey“Steps Down the Evolutionary Road | Periodicals Price Survey 2014,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal,

April 11, 2014: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/04/publishing/steps-down-the-evolutionary-road-periodicals-price-survey-2014/#_

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Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.

*Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward.

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Monograph and Serial Costs

in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011* Serial Expenditures(+402%)

Monograph Expenditures(+71%)

Monographs Purchased (10%)

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Publishing obscure academic journals is

that rare thing in the media industry:

“a licence to print money.”

Source: The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574

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Publishing is big business…

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Publishing is big business…

39%

Source: “Elsevier STM publishing profits rise to 39%”

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2014/03/elsevier-stm-publishing-profits-rise-to.html

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Is there a reason publishing should be

this expensive?

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

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80% of research is

publicly funded

Source: “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

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Does our publishing system

what we entrust to distribute the knowledge we work so hard to create

share our values?

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Closed

academic publishing

breaks the Internet

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We can do

better.

Slide credit: Nicole Allen

Free, immediate online access

to scientific & scholarly articles

with full reuse rights

Budapest Open Access Initiative

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This is an issue of

EQUALITY

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Two paths to Open Access

Self-

archiving

Open Access

Journals

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1. Publish in an open-access journal

X >10,000

Source: Directory of Open Access Journals: www.doaj.org

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X 2,000

2. Publish (most) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository

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Source: www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/statistics.php?la=en&fIDnum=|&mode=simple

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Source:

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Who Benefits from Open Access?

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Who Benefits from Open Access?

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• You

http://whatshouldwecallgradschool.tumblr.com/post/75410649038/when-my-paper-gets-cited

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—1996–2013

URL: http://science-metrix.com/en/publications/reports#/en/publications/reports/proportion-of-open-access-papers-published-in-peer-

reviewed-journals-at-the

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Valeria Aman , The potential of preprints to accelerate

scholarly communication –

A bibliometric analysis based on selected journals

http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4856

Who Benefits from Open Access?

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• You

• Society

Mphatso NguluweDeputy Principal

College of Nursing, Ekwendeni

Source: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information/focus/access/articles_publications/articles/openaccess_20070419

HIV and AIDS have hit us in Africa the hardest, and it is up

to us to learn what we can to fight the disease.

If we can’t obtain the best information, we can’t succeed in our struggle and millions more will die.

Some researchers have even come here from abroad to

work, gone home, and published their findings; but articles they’ve written cannot be accessed here.

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Who Benefits from Open Access?

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• You

• Society

• Computers

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What are early career researchers

doing to advance Open Access?

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Make yourwork openly

available on

The Internet

Mike Taylor: The SV-POW! open-access decision treesvpow.com/2013/05/11/the-sv-pow-open-access-decision-tree/

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Raise awareness about Open Access

on campus and beyond

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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.

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June 25, 2012

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Setting the Default to Open:

Institutional & Funder Policies

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Institutional Open Access Policies

270 Institutions in 45 countries

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Research Funder Open Access Policies

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1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits

over the past 5+ years

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things to do

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OpenCon 2014 Speakers Included:

• Deputy Assistant to the President of the United

States for Legislative Affairs

• Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks

• Associate Director for Data Science, U.S. National

Institutes of Health

• Co-founder, Open Library of the Humanities

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Thank you! Joe@righttoresearch.org or @Mcarthur_Joe

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