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The Case for Open Access

Caroline SuttonCo-founder, Co-Action PublishingPresident, OASPA

www.oaspa.org

Co-Action Publishing is an international open access scholarly publisher, with a growing portfolio of peer-reviewed scholarly journals spanning different scientific disciplines. The company is registered as a limited liability company in Sweden, and is wholly-owned by the three founding partners.

www.co-action.net

Established October 2008 by:

BioMed Central Co-Action Publishing Copernicus Publications Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Medical Internet Research (Gunther

Solomon) Medical Education Online (David Solomon) Public Library of Science (PLoS) SAGE Publications SPARC Europe Utrecht University Library (Igitur)

Background

OA publishers lacked a voice in public debates about scholarly communications and Open Access

Open Access had become an established part of the publishing landscape; it was time to address practical issues

Need to develop uniform standards and best practices Need to bring together the Open Access publishing

community Need to share information and work collectively OASPA represents both professional publishing

organizations as well as scholar publishers and welcomes other organizations whose work supports OA publishing.

OASPA Mission

To support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.

To accomplish this mission, the association will: Exchange information Set standards Advance models Advocate for OA publishing Educate Promote innovation

OPEN ACCESS = Free Access + Re-use

Creative Commons Licenses

Most common:

Attribution 3.0

(CCBY or CCAL) Attribution-

Noncommercial 3.0

(CCBY-NC)

04/12/2023

Copyright NoticeAuthors contributing to Global Health Action agree to publish their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license, allowing third parties to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it, under the condition that the authors are given credit, that the work is not used for commercial purposes, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear.

Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to Co-Action Publishing. However, authors are required to transfer copyrights associated with commercial use to the Publisher. Revenues from commercial sales are used to keep down the publication fees. Moreover, a major portion of the profits generated from commercial sales is placed in a fund to cover publication fees for researchers from developing nations and, in some cases, for young researchers.

Achieving Open Access through the self archiving of peer-reviewed journal articles.

Different publishers have different policies on deposition of articles.

List and policies available at SHERPA-RoMEO (www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo)

The ”Green Road”

The changing landscape of arguments

The financial argument“Serials Crisis”

The financial argument“Tax payer access”

The funder argument“Maximize investment in research”

30 Europe10 United States & Canada 7 Internationally

The new arguments:Open Access as key to innovation and economic growth

2010 Communication from the Commission on the Innovation Union :“In 2012, the Commission will propose a European Research Area Framework and supporting measures [...]. They will notably seek to ensure through a common approach to [...] dissemination, transfer and use of research results, including through open access to publications and data from publicly funded research”. The Commission “[...]will promote open access to the results of publicly funded research. It will aim to make open access to publications the general principle for projects funded by the EU research Framework Programmes [...]”.COM (2010) 546.

The arguments you don’t hear

Chris Anderson – Free: The Future of a Radical Price

The changing landscape beyond academic publishing: ”living in a free world”

Image: Chris Anderson, http://thelongtail.com/about.html

”A new kind of business is emerging – one that opens its doors to the world, innovates with everyone (especially customers), shares resources that were previously guarded, harnesses the power of mass collaboration, and behaves not as a multinational but as something new: a truly global firm.”

Don Tascott & Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics. How mass collaboration changes everything

The changing landscape beyond academic publishing: ”Wikinomics”

The next stage for OA publishing

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Thanks to Mark Patterson, PLoS for sharing this slide and the next two slides.

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Thanks to Mark Patterson, PLoS for sharing this slide.And to Matt Cockerill, BMC; Paul Peters, Hindawi.

”A social network diagram”, Screenshot taken by Darwin Peacock, accessed through Wikimedia; distributed under a CCL 3.0.

Understanding knowledge as a network (vs. property)

Knowledge as an infrastructure

Caroline.Sutton@co-action.net

info@oaspa.org

THANK YOU!