project-soap.eu
First results from the FP7 SOAP projectStudy of Open Access Publishing
5th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar: “Find it, Get it, Use it, Store it”
Lisbon, 9 November 2010
Suenje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Bettina Goerner, Robert Darby, Jenni Hyppoelae,
Peter Igo-Kemenes, Deborah Kahn, Simon Lambert, Anja Lengenfelder,
Chris Leonard, Salvatore Mele, Panayiota Polydoratou, David Ross,
Sergio Ruiz-Perez, Ralf Schimmer, Mark Swaisland and Wim van der Stelt
BMC, CERN, MPDL, SAGE, Springer and STFC
Presented by
Simon Lambert (STFC, UK)
Outline
• About the project
• Highlights from a study of OA journals today
• Results from a large-scale survey of researchers
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Outline
• About the project
• Highlights from a study of OA journals today
• Results from a large-scale survey of researchers
3Simon Lambert | STFC 5th UNICA Scholarly Communication Seminar
SOAPStudy of Open Access Publishing
• Funded by the European Commission
• Framework Program 7 – Science and Society
• Scheduled to run from March 2009 to February 2011
• Compare and contrast supply/demand for OA publishing
• “Gold” OA journal publishing
• Publishers, Libraries, Funding Agencies
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Outline
• About the project
• Highlights from a study of OA journals today
• Results from a large-scale survey
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A study of OA journals today
• Assess the supply of OA publishing outlets today
• Start from the DOAJ
• Collect additional information– SCOPUS, ISI-JCR, EZB, SCImago, ask friends and colleagues
– Trawl through thousands of web pages
• Answer key questions– How many articles, journals, publishers?
– In which discipline, with which license?
– Where does the money come from?
– …
• Some highlights in the following pages
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How many? About 8-10% !
• English language journals only
• 90% of publishers <100 articles/year and 1/3 of total
• 10% of publishers publish 2/3 of the total
• 14 “large publishers”:- 40K articles/year in 616 journals, 30% of the total
- 6 commercial, 6 no-profit, 2 N/A
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About what?
• 2/3 of journals in STM; 1/3 in SSH
• 3/4 of articles in STM; 1/4 in SSH
• “Large publisher” almost exclusively STM
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Licensing practices
• Half of “large” publishers use Creative Commons
• 82% CC-by, 18% CC-by-nc
• 72% of journals, 71% of articles
• “Other” publishers
• 73% have license information on their web pages
• 21% use some CC version
• 10% state “authors retains copyright”
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Outline
• About the project
• Highlights from a study of OA journals today
• Results from a large-scale survey of researchers
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• 23 questions
• Available at http://surveymonkey.com/soap_survey_g
• Analysis of the first 3 months of data
• Dissemination through:
-SOAP partners
-Publishers mailing lists
-Library and Open Access mailing lists
• Estimate dissemination to >1.5 million people
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The SOAP survey
Are you involved in research?
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How many articles have you published ?
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38’358
Focus on: published researchers
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Who ?
Beliefs
Behaviours
Preliminary results
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Who ?
- Demographics
Beliefs
- Likes OA? Why? Why not?
Behaviours
- Publishes OA? Why not?
- Who pays? How? How easy?
Preliminary results
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Who ?
Beliefs
Behaviours
Preliminary results
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Demographics
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Distribution by country
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Distribution by disciplines
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Who ?
Beliefs
Behaviours
Preliminary results
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No large differences according to seniority and number of articles
Would OA journals be
beneficial for your field?
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Why?
>22’000 answers, 1/2 million words
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Why yes? (n=6984)
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35%
19%
17%
14%
10%
4%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Scientific community benefit
Public good
Financial issues
Accessibility
Individual benefit
Other
Why not? (n=1611)
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19%
17%
14%
11%
11%
10%
7%
6%
4%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
Low quality
No need
Presence and amount of fees
Other
Fairness/vanity press
Unsustainable for publication and society
Green oa enough
No/bad peer-review
Profit driven
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Would OA journals be
beneficial for your field?
By field
Would OA journals be
beneficial for your field?
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Yes
Beliefs about OA – positive
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1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree
Beliefs about OA – neutral
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1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree
Beliefs about OA – negative
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1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree
Who ?
Beliefs
Behaviours
Preliminary results
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How many OA articles have you
published in the last 5 years?
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Was there a reason
not to publish OA?
42% gave a reason; >4000 answers; 60’000 words
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39%
31%
10%
7%
7%
4%
2%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Funding
Journal performance
Other
Accessibility
Ignorence/unawarness
Habits
"Next time"
Which fee did you pay for
your last OA article?
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How was this fee covered?
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How easy was it to obtain funds?
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How easy was it to obtain funds?
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How easy was it to obtain funds?
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Conclusions
• Strive to provide facts on which to base decisions
(EC, publishers, libraries, funding agencies)
•Key findings so far:
-90% scientists think OA journals are a good thing
-BUT only 8-10% of articles is in OA journals
-main barriers are lack of funds (40%) and journal
quality/prestige (30%)
• Further analysis of the data ongoing
Data to be OPEN in a few months
project-soap.eu
Thank you!
Project team: [email protected]
Co-ordinator: [email protected]
Website: http://soap-fp7.eu
Final results to be presented in
Berlin, January 13th, 2011(after APE2011)
http://soap-fp7.eu/soap-symposium
Including hands-on session on using the data