publishing open access isn’t the end of the story
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Presentation by Rachel Young, Maney Publishing EAA 2014 session: Open Access and Open Data in Archaeology Istanbul, Turkey 13 September 2013TRANSCRIPT
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Enormous increase in OA publishing
Source poeticeconomics.com
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Why publish OA?
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Ethics
• Research on public assets and/or community
cultural heritage/identity
• Research has an impact on public policy
• Research publicly funded
• Results of use to diverse, non-academic
audiences
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Public understanding of archaeology
• Huge, committed avocational audience
• Many and diverse interest groups and local
societies globally
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Funder mandates
• Acceptable embargo period
• Acceptable licence
• Funds for Gold OA?
• If so, any publication limits (within funded
period?)
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Visibility to colleagues
• Research consensus
• HTML downloads increase, around 2 -2.5 times
• PDF downloads from the journal increase too, but
by a lesser factor
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Increase citation
• But historically the evidence for Open Access
increasing citations has been mixed..
• Looking at key, frequently cited studies..
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Nature Publishing Group and RIN (2014)
• 2008 articles in Nature Communications
• Launch in 2010 to 1st July 2013
• Biological sciences, chemistry, earth sciences, physics
• 38% of papers published open access, highest proportion biosci
• ‘Slightly’ higher citations in all disciplines except chemistry
• BUT median no. cites increased by 4 (medians ranged between
2-11)
• Launch/commissioning effect
• Quality differences between OA and non-OA papers?
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Eysenbach PLoS Biology (2006)
• PNAS articles Jul-Dec 2004
• Study controlled for author profile,
circumstances, location and discipline
• OA articles twice more likely to be cited 4-10
months after publication.
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Other literature observing an increase in
citations
• Walker Nature web focus (2004)
• Antelman College and Research Libraries
(2004)
• Harnad and Brody D-Lib 10 (2004)
• Norris et al. J Am Soc for Info. Sci. and
Techn. (2008)
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Conversely..
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Gaulé & Maystre (2011) Research Policy
• Looked at OA and non-OA articles published in PNAS
• Optional OA fee $1000
• Observed no significant increase in citations for OA articles
• BUT
• Very widely subscribed journal
• Green OA embargo only 6 months
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Phil Davies, The FASEB Journal (2011)
• Large randomised study making some articles OA
• Jan 2007 – Feb 2008
• 20 science and 16 social sciences journals
• Variety of publishers but all on Highwire
• 3245 articles of which 712 made OA
• HTML downloads doubled in the first year of free access and
PDF downloads increased by 63%
• Increase in breadth of readership (unique IP addresses)
• No increase in citations or reduction of time to first citation
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Why no research consensus?
• Most academic articles published for highly specialised
audience in well-defined niche
• Many studies could not check for self-selection of articles
• Academic social networking less well developed at time studies
were made
• Citation differences between STM and HSS not always taken
into consideration
• Studies conducted in early days of open access, when OA
channels were fewer and less diverse
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Archaeology lends itself to OA
publishing
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• Archaeology has unique breadth of discipline
• Employs theory and methods from many
different subjects
• Multiscalar
• Diverse audiences, including professional
and avocational audience who do not have
university library access
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• Top archaeology journals stuffed with papers,
slowing down publishing times
• Some parts of the scientific archaeology
community have very different expectations of
publishing speed
• For molecular geneticists 6 weeks to publish from
acceptance is normal
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So what can OA publishing bring you?
• Green and gold
• Visibility
• Breadth of audience
• Impact – if in right journal and promoted by you
• Compliance with your funders mandates
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Gold OA funds – that’ll do nicely sir..
• Appropriate scope and quality
• A relatively high impact vehicle (REF etc.)
• Sophisticated online platforms with good search visibility
• Swift peer review, possibly innovative
• Developmental review and editing
• Rapid publication
• Automated repository deposition
• Article promotion
• Tools to self-promote
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Relatively high impact publication..
Impact factors
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PLOS One
Journal of Archaeological Science
American Antiquity
Antiquity
Impact factors
Data from Thomson Reuters JCR
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Archaeology is a relatively low impact
subject
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Nature
Science
PLOS One
BMC Biology
PNAS
Journal of Archaeological Science
American Antiquity
Antiquity
Impact factors
Data from Thomson Reuters JCR
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Plenty of space!
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Nature
Science
eLife
PLOS One
BMC Biology
PNAS
Journal of Archaeological Science
American Antiquity
Antiquity
No. citable articles published
Data from Thomson Reuters JCR
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What will the future bring?
• Fees for incremental services
• Increase in academic ‘partner’ OA journals
• OA as a service to members