jeffery loo december 17, 2009 [email protected] on promoting open access at lbnl
TRANSCRIPT
“With any entrée, you get unlimitedaccess to the trough.”
Agenda
1Awareness of
open access principles
funding
challengesjournal subscription fees
copyright ownership / controlreader access
return on public investment
Research life cycle challenges
(Treloar and Groenewegen, 2007)
Open access responds to these challenges
Publishing that is
Digital and online
Free access for readers *
Fewer copyright restrictions
not free for authors(Suber, 2007)
Motivations for OA participation
Self-i
ntere
st
Altruism
Advantages and concerns
Advantages
Greater visibility and citation rate
Digital
Free access
Promotes collaboration and exchange
Concerns
Publishing quality
Preservation and authenticity
Sustainability of author-pays model
Conflict of interest when author pays
(Information Platform Open Access, 2009)
2Open access
models
Spectrum of open access models
Less effortIndividual level
More effortCollaboration
Open access licensesan alternative to traditional copyright
Open access journalsfree to read, but not to produce
Springer Open Choice
Open access archives and repositories
Self-archiving
Where to archive:Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org
Permission to self-archive?Sherpa-Romeo databasehttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/index.html
arXiv.org
publishing system and repositoryno fees for UC members and LBNLUCPubS - print on demand
administrative and financial
Institutional support
Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity
Berkeley Research Impact Initiative
(BRII)
Funding for OA publishing by UC Berkeley members
Institutional policy and mandates
MIT – all facultiesHarvard – Faculty of Arts and SciencesStanford – School of Education
Institutional collaboration
SCOAP3
Collaboration to promote open access publications in high energy physics
Advocacy (for the law)
Nobel LaureatesOpen letter re:Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)
Spectrum of OA optionsThe University of California recommends
What’s on the horizon?
Open dataGenBankScience CommonsDataONE
Encouragement by:CIHRWellcome Trust
eScienceCyberinfrastructureHigh performance computing at LBNL
Open Science
transparency and collaborationopen notebook science
citizen science
(Lyon, 2009)
Other research communication
Pubcast on SciVeeObject Re-Use and Exchange (ORE) StandardHerbert Van de Sompel (LANL)
(Pepe et al., ?)
3Discussion
Issues for reflectionOpen access awareness and activity•Key LBNL supporters of OA publishing•Administrative support for OA initiatives•Metrics for the awareness, activity, and support of OA•What OA support do LBNL members need?
Funding•How much is LBNL spending on OA publishing fees?•Are the OA journal pricing models prohibitive?•Are alternative models and sources of funding necessary? Advocacy
Conclusion by haiku
Open access helps
Protect, preserve, publicize -
What can be done here?
ReferencesInformation Platform Open Access. 2009. Pros and Cons.
http://open-access.net/de_en/print/general_information/pros_and_cons_of_open_access/ Accessed: 2009/12/14
Lyon, L. 2009. Open science at web-scale: Optimising participation and predictive potential. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/opensciencerpt.aspx Accessed: 2009/12/14
Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California. 2009. Reshaping Scholarly Communication. http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/ Accessed: 2009/12/14
Pepe, A., Mayernik1, M., Borgman, C.L., and Van de Sompel, H. (?) From Artifacts to Aggregations: Modeling Scientific Life Cycles on the Semantic Web. http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0906/0906.2549.pdf Accessed: 2009/12/14
Suber, P. 2007. Open Access Overview. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm Accessed: 2009/12/14
Treloar A and Groenewegen D. 2007. ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects. Ariadne. 51. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue51/treloar-groenewegen/ Accessed: 2009/12/14