open access, data and education for global surgery rsm 2016

Access a world of open research

Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_JoeAssistant Director, Right to Research CoalitionCo-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button

RSM Workshop

www.righttoresearch.org

Why is accessing and using cutting edge Research and Education materials important to you?

Launched in Summer 2009.

Built around the Student Statementon the Right to Research: access toresearch is a student right

International alliance of 77 graduate &undergraduate student organizations,representing nearly 7 million students

We Educate + Advocate for Open Access


What’s going wrong?


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€ 15.234

Prices generated with Elsevier’s pricing tool, for an institutional subscription with more than 5 users for an academic institution in Poland with less than 10,000. Pricing tool URL:http://www.myelsevier.com/browse/product_details.jsp?productId=ELS_AG_BS-PRD-00942#


$39,082

Robert Darnton, “The Library: Three Jeremiads,” New York Review of Books, December 23, 2010http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jeremiads

Average journal price in Health Sciences:


Chemistry

= $4,450

Physics

= $3,893

Agriculture

= $1,441

= $1,482

Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey“The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal, April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013


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Graph 2 Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011*

Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.*Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward.

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Publishing obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: “a license to print money.”

The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574


Publishing is big business…39%

40-50%

Date taken from on August 2nd https://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/


Is there a reason publishing

should be this expensive?

www.righttoresearch.orghttp://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200


80% of research is publicly funded

1 Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into shares, HSBC Global Research, February 11, 2013: https://www.research.hsbc.com/midas/Res/RDV?ao=20&key=RxArFbnG1P&n=360010.PDF

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Shouldn’t our publishing system

what we entrust to distribute the knowledge we work so hard to create

share our values?


Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articleswith full reuse rightsAs defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative

www.sparc.arl.org


168x faster26,667x cheaper400x more sensitive100x more selective

Current test (ELISA):$800, high false positives

Jack’s test:$.03, >99% accuracy, 5 min

“I used [free, online articles] religiously. Just because, in most online databases, articles cost about $35, and there are only about 10 pages…

My research should serve as a testament to free online research (...) It was hard to get what I needed without the costs. People should take note and because of this project, we should make a move toward more inexpensive or free Online research.”

- Jack AndrakaInterview with Vancouver Observer

www.vancouverobserver.com/world/how-aaron-swartz-paved-way-jack-andrakas-revolutionary-cancer-test


Source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150409/17514230608/dont-think-open-access-is-important-it-might-have-prevented-much-ebola-outbreak.shtml


Two paths to Open Access

Self-archiving

Open AccessJournals


X 2,000

1. Publish (almost) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository


2. Publish in an open-access journal

X >10000


2. Publish in an open-access journal

$ $or


Data, Textbooks, Lectures, Code, we can share them all.

Open Data and Open Education


Students are setting the default to

Open


1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits over the past 4.5 years


i) confirms the importance of students having access to research journals and articles as part of their training;

ii) notes the high cost to institutions and individuals when accessing scholarly literature;

iii) proposes that this could hinder medical students in their development as ‘The Doctor as the Scientist’ as well as developing an evidence based clinical approach;

iv) welcomes and endorses the Right To Research Coalition’s statement on Open Access to research literature.

June 25, 2012

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www.sparc.arl.org

But what can you do?


200,000+ viewsbit.ly/OAexplained

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Thank you and Questions?How you can talk to me

[email protected]@Mcarthur_Joe

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