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Open Access: Maximizing the Impact of Research and
Scholarship
Heather JosephExecutive Director, SPARC
February 21, 2013
Our Mission:
Expand the distribution of the results of research and scholarship in a way that
leverages digital networked technology, reduces financial pressures on libraries,
and creates a more open system of scholarly communication.
What’s Happening In Scientific Communication and What Does it
Mean for You?
1. New technology.
The Internet.
New Venues to Share Work.
2. Digital Deluge.
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We need to enable computers to help us keep up.
3. Rising Costs, Shrinking Budgets
Price Barriers
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Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20050828210650/libraries.mit.edu/about/scholarly/expensive-titles.html
Library budgets journal prices
“Scientific, technical, medical, legal and business journals – an $8.9 billion market - grew at 3%
in 2010…”
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$8.9 BILLION REVENUE/YEAR =
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What Does this Mean for You?
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• NEED GRAPHIC OF PAY-PER-VIEW Screen
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• NEED GRAPHIC OF PAY-PER-VIEW Screen
What Do You Do?
It Isn’t Inter-Library Loan…
I ask the author for a copy.
I get it from a colleague at an institution with a subscription.
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“I’ve never had a witness confess to a crime during a hearing before…”
- Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO)
We’re Used to Workarounds.
Need to Optimize the System for Scholars and the Academy.
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“By open access, we mean its free availability on the public internet,
permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print,
search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them
for any other lawful purpose…”
- The Budapest Open Access Initiative – February 14, 2002
Open Access = Access + Reuse
So How do We Do This?
Infrastructure: Open Access Journals
Copyright
Open Licenses
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More than 8,600 OA Journals
Infrastructure:Open Access Repositories
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Open Access Repositories
FEDERATION
Open Data
What Does this Mean for Researchers and Scholars?
• Broader reach/wider audience for your work• Access to more, license to do more• New ways to see who is using your work, and
how they are using it
A (Largely) Positive New Scenario
The Digital Environment Lets Us Collect Information on More than
Just Citations.
Article Level Metrics
Choose the Aspect of Impact you Want to Explore.
From Mentions In the Media…
Tweets and Re-Tweets…
No Single Indicator Tells Whole Story.
Opportunities to Paint a Fuller Picture by Aggregating
Information.
Not Yet Fully Understood.
Still Early Days. But Important Days.
Disruptive Technologies, Opportunities for Meaningful
Change.
Thank you!
Heather Dalterio [email protected] (202) 296-2296http://www.arl.org/sparchttp://www.taxpayeraccess.org