ACCESS TO THE VISION LITERATURESUPPORTING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW OPPORTUNITIES

PAMELA C. SIEVING¹ AND BETTE ANTON² FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF VISION SCIENCE LIBRARIANS (AVSL)³¹NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH LIBRARY, BETHESDA ²FONG OPTOMETRY LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY ³ spectacle.berkeley.edu/~library/AVSL.HTM

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BUDAPEST (2002), BETHESDA (2003) & BERLIN (2003)STATEMENTS ON OPEN ACCESS DIGITAL, ONLINE FREE USE, FREE OF MANY RESTRICTIONS FROM COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING AGREEMENTS

COST/BENEFITS BALANCE TO BE DETERMINED PEER-REVIEW IMPORTANT PERMANENT STABLE ARCHIVES VITAL BUDAPEST : 4100+ SIGNATORIES BERLIN: 150+ SIGNATORIES

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS 2200+ JOURNALS, 95,000+ ARTICLES

CURRENT OPEN ACCESS VISION JOURNALS Arch Soc Esp Oftalmol* Indian J Ophthalmol* Arq Bras Oftalmol* Internet J Ophthalmol Arch Ophthalmol*+ IOVS*+ BMC Ophthalmol* J VIS* Br J Ophthalmol*+ Mol Vis* Community Eye Health* Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc* Dig J Ophthalmol *Medline title +partial years or content

THREE MODELS OF WHO PAYS AUTHOR CHARGES ($500-$1500) AUTHOR INSTITUTION (BMC) SUBMISSION FEES WAIVED/REDUCED AS NECESSARY

SUBSCRIPTION COSTS/BENEFITS (BERGSTROM/MCAFFEE MODEL)

GLOBAL RESOURCESMANDATES BY FUNDING AGENCIES NIH PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY (AS OF MAY 2005) DEPOSITING MANUSCRIPTS IS REQUESTED BUT NOT REQUIRED.

TO DATE ONLY 4% OF ELIGIBLE MANUSCRIPTS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO PUBMED CENTRAL ARCHIVE.

OF 2400 ARTICLES RELEASED FOR ACCESS, 190 WERE VISION- RELATED. 56 WERE PUBLISHED IN VISION JOURNALS.

NUMBER OF ARTICLES IN VISION JOURNALS RELEASED TO PUBMED CENTRAL SINCE MAY 2005:

Am J Ophthalmol 5 J Ocul Immunol 1 Arch Ophthalmol 8 Ophthalmology 4 Exp Eye Res 5 Prog Ret Eye Res 2 IOVS 19 Retina 3 J Ocul Pharmacol 1 Vis Neuroscience 3 J Vision 2 Vis Research 7

There are calls to make future deposits mandatory within 6 months of publication. Estimated cost to maintain this archive: $3.5M/yr.

WELLCOME TRUST OPEN ACCESS POLICY (AS OF OCTOBER 2005) MANDATED SUBMISSION WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF PUBLICATION. c100 MANUSCRIPTS SUBMITTED TO PMC ARCHIVE TO DATE. UKPMC TO BE ESTABLISHED, WITH LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO BE INCLUDED. 1% OF GRANT BUDGET IS EARMARKED FOR PUBLISHING. COPYRIGHT AMENDMENT LANGUAGE HAS BEEN DEVELOPED.

RESEARCH COUNCILS OF THE UK (OCTOBER 2005) POSITION STATEMENT ONLY; POLICY IS DUE SOON. MAX PLANCK INSTITUTES ENCOURAGE PUBLISHING IN OA JOURNALS. ENCOURAGE DEPOSIT IN INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES.

BERLIN-4 CONFERENCE (MARCH 2006) INDIA: 100 OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS. NO AUTHOR FEES (INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE)

c20 INSTITUTIONAL ARCHIVES. BOOKS, DISSERTATIONS DIGITIZED.

SOUTH AFRICA 5 OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS. 4 INSTITUTIONAL ARCHIVES.

UKRAINE PROTODIRECTORY OF OA JOURNALS AND REPOSITORIES. OA A PARLIAMENTARY PRIORITY.

RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO ALL PUBMED AND OTHER NCBI FILES PUBMED CENTRAL JOURNALS FREE ARCHIVES FOR MANY JOURNALS (FREE FULLTEXT LIMIT IN PUBMED) LILACS, INDMED INDEX MEDICUS for the EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION INDEX MEDICUS for the SOUTH-EAST ASIAN REGION c60 JOURNALS through HINARI (DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ONLY) ISSUES IN OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING CHOICES --FUNDER POLICIES ARE MANDATING CHANGE --COPYRIGHT ALLOWS RANGE OF OPTIONS --EASIER ACCESS = MORE CITATIONS --MAY BE CHEAPER THAN REPRINTS --ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE IN SCIENCE & HEALTH --GLOBAL IMPACT ENHANCED FOR ALL --SUSTAINABLE PRICING AND ACCESS MUST BE DEVELOPED AND IMPLEMENTED --CHANGE IS INEVITABLE. YOU CAN DIRECT IT! REASONS TO POST WORK TO AN OA REPOSITORY --EASY ARCHIVING --INCREASED EXPOSURE --INCREASED CITATIONS --INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION --LONG-TERM PRESERVATION --SUPPORT THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (R.Singer Gordon) --81% OF SURVEYED AUTHORS INDICATE WILLINGNESS TO COMPLY WITH MANDATED DEPOSIT (www.keyperspevctives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/) --95% OF JOURNALS ALLOW AUTHORS TO DEPOSIT MANUSCRIPTS IN INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

REPOSITORY DIRECTORIES: OpenDOAR www.opendoar.org 380 INSTITUTIONS DIRECTORY ONLY

OAISTER: oaister.umdl.umich.edu 620 INSTITUTIONS; 7 MILLION RECORDS DIRECTORY + SEARCH ENGINE

Impact $/Article $/Citation Composite RelativePrice Index Cost Index

Prog Ret Eye Res 5.345 35.53 3.65 11.4 6.75IOVS 3.577 1.03 0.17 0.42 0.25Surv Ophthalmol 3.221 3.81 0.74 1.68 1Ophthalmology 3.21 1.34 0.23 0.56 0.33Arch Ophthalmol 2.926 1.54 0.36 0.74 0.44Mol Vis 2.9 0 0 0 0Exp Eye Res 2.846 15.82 3.84 7.79 4.62Am J Ophthalmol 2.332 1.23 0.35 0.65 0.39Br J Ophthalmol 2 2.37 0.71 1.3 0.77J Cat Refract Surg 1.937 1.03 0.25 0.51 0.3Medicine overall n/a 7.22 1.38 7.12 n/aMedicine non-profit n/a 2.28 0.34 2.56 n/aMedicine for-profit n/a 9.23 1.99 8.5 n/a

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RESOURCES (1) BERGSTROM T, McAFEE P. JOURNAL COST EFFECTIVENESS, 2005. www.journalprices.com (2) DIRECTORY OF PUBLISHERS‘ DEPOSITORY POLICIES: www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php