1. Open Access and Medical Education Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_Joe Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button

2. 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 3. www.righttoresearch.org 4. www.righttoresearch.org 5. www.righttoresearch.org 6. www.righttoresearch.org 7. www.righttoresearch.org ??? 8. www.righttoresearch.org 15.234 Prices generated with Elseviers pricing tool, for an institutional subscription with more than 5 users for an academic institution in Poland with less than 10,000. Pricing tool URL: http://www.myelsevier.com/browse/product_details.jsp?productId=ELS_AG_BS-PRD-00942# 9. www.righttoresearch.org $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 10. Average journal price in Health Sciences: www.righttoresearch.org Chemistry = $4,450 Physics = $3,893 Agriculture = $1,441 = $1,482 Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013, by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal, April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013 11. www.righttoresearch.org -25% 25% 75% 125% 175% 225% 275% 325% 375% 425% 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 %ChangeSince1986 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%) 12. Publishing obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: a licence to print money. www.righttoresearch.org The Economist, Open Sesame, April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574 13. www.righttoresearch.org Publishing is big business 39% 40-50% 14. Is there a reason publishing should be this expensive? www.righttoresearch.org 15. www.righttoresearch.org http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200 16. www.righttoresearch.org 80% of research is publicly funded 1 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 1 17. Shouldnt our publishing system what we entrust to distribute the knowledge we work so hard to create share our values? www.righttoresearch.org 18. www.righttoresearch.org Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articles with full reuse rights Budapest Open Access Initiative 19. www.righttoresearch.org Two paths to Open Access Self- archiving Open Access Journals 20. www.righttoresearch.org X 2,000 1. Publish (almost) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository 21. www.righttoresearch.org 2. Publish in an open-access journal X >9,000 22. Setting the default to Open through student advocacy www.righttoresearch.org 23. www.righttoresearch.org 1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits over the past 4.5 years 24. www.righttoresearch.org 25. Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014 www.righttoresearch.org 26. www.righttoresearch.org 27. www.righttoresearch.org bit.ly/OAexplained 28. 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 Coalitions statement on Open Access to research literature. www.righttoresearch.org June 25, 2012 29. But what can you do? Publish Open Access yourself Show when you cant get access at OpenAccessButton.org Advocate for Open Access at the Local Level Advocate for Open Access at the National Level Join the Right to Research Coalition 30. www.righttoresearch.org 31. www.righttoresearch.org 32. http://www.sparc.arl.org/news/2014-OA-Week-Kickoff 33. Summary www.righttoresearch.org 1.Publish Open Access yourself 2.Advocate for Open Access 3.Use OpenAccessButton.org 34. Questions? www.righttoresearch.org 35. www.righttoresearch.org Thank you! Joe@righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe www.righttoresearch.org www.sparc.arl.org