open access introduction for best
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Intro to Open Access and Open Education
Joe McArthur (@R2RC)Assistant Director, Right to Research CoalitionCo-founder, Open Access Button
July 1st, 2015
My slides at:bit.ly/BESTconf
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Launched in Summer 2009
Built around the Student Statementon the Right to Research: access toresearch is a student right
International alliance of 75+ graduate &
undergraduate student organizations,representing nearly 7 million studentsin over 100 countries worldwide
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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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Graph 2 Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011*
Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.*Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward.
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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/21552574www.sparc.arl.org
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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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Closedacademic publishingbreaks the Internet
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Closedacademic publishingbreaks the Internet:`(
We can do
better.
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Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articleswith full reuse rightsBudapest Open Access Initiative
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Two paths to Open Access
Self-archiving
Open AccessJournals
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1. Publish in an open-access journal
X >10,000
Source: Directory of Open Access Journals: www.doaj.orgwww.sparc.arl.org
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
http://whatshouldwecallgradschool.tumblr.com/post/75410649038/when-my-paper-gets-cited
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Swan, Alma (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date.http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268516/
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What has Open Access done for you?
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OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
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Hewlett Foundation Definition:
“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”
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Hewlett Foundation Definition:
“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”
Slide credit: Nicole Allen
Free + 5R Permissions
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Free + 5R Permissions• Retain• Reuse• Revise• Remix• Redistribute
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What can you do for Open Access and Open Education?
Sign up for updates at OpenCon2015.org/attend
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Sign the Right to Research StatementRightToResearch.org
