ifmsa euregme workshop 2015
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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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My slides, videos and more:
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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
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.
Graph 2
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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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:
www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
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
115 Research Funders in 28 Countries
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1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits
over the past 5+ years
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• Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks
• Associate Director for Data Science, U.S. National
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