open access publishing: lessons for india
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I gave this presentation at a conference at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. It was part of Open Access Week 2013, hosted by JNU but conducted by UNESCO, JNU and CEMCATRANSCRIPT
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Open Access:Developments and Strategies
Opening up by Closing the Circle:
Strengthening Open Access in India21st October 2013 – JNU Convention Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru
University,
New Delhi
Vivek Mehra
Managing Director & CEO
SAGE India
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Overview
● What is it?
● How the market developed
● Governments and Funders
● Strategic Plan
● SAGE Open (optional)
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What is Open Access?
● Immediate, free and unrestricted online access to digital scholarly material
● Primarily refers to peer-reviewed primary research articles in scholarly journals
● Allows reasonably unrestricted re-use of material
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Two Types of Open Access
OA Publishing – The Gold Road. Authors pay to publish in open access journals that make their articles freely accessible online immediately upon publication.
OA Self-Archiving – The Green Road. Authors publish in a subscription journal, but make their articles freely accessible online, usually by depositing them in a repository.
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Attribution CC BY
Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC
Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
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● Technological development – the Internet has made it feasible
● Financial pressure on library budgets
● Ideological
Why Open Access?
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Ideological
● Information wants to be free
● ‘Your taxes paid for this research you have a right to read it’
● Fast publication and open unrestricted access to research drives further progress in research
● Will reduce the cost of the system
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Suggested Benefits of Open Access
● Near Universal Access
● Articles are more likely to be read and cited
● Relaxes copyright restrictions – allows (limited) re-use
● Will reduce the cost of the system
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Criticisms● It’s vanity publishing
● It is not beneficial to the public to have access
● OA undermines the systems of peer review
● Lead to an increase in the publication of poor quality research
● Penalises high research intensity universities
● Will not reduce the total costs
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224 Journals, 21,000 articles
5000 submissions a month
23,000 articles
PLOS ONE >25,000 articles to date
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Editor-in-Chief: Randy Schekman, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley
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The Rise of “Predatory Publishers”
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224 Journals
The Rise of “Predatory Publishers”
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Don’t comply with various ethical standards:
• Re-publish papers or publish papers that contain plagiarism• Use spam email to solicit manuscripts or editorial board
memberships, or review requests• Have no policies or practices that relate to digital
preservation• Focus on authors (not readers) and on getting their fees at
the expense of readers
The Rise of “Predatory Publishers”
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Center for Research in Applied Phrenology" (CRAP)
“Deconstructing Access Points”
ABSTRACT
The synthesis of the Ethernet is a confusing grand challenge. Given the current status of knowledgebased archetypes, statisticians particularly desire the refinement of superpages, which embodies the practical principles of software engineering. In order to address this riddle, we investigate how web browsers can be applied to the construction of the Ethernet.
The Open Information Science Journal
published by Bentham Open
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● OSTP Directive – applies to any federal agency with a budget over $100m. Requires green deposit with a 12 month embargo as a guideline
● FASTR (new FRPAA) - requires green deposit with 6 month embargo.
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Open Access Policy● As of 1st April, all research articles that result from a RCUK funded
research must be published Open Access
● A preference for immediate Gold OA facilitated by payment of APCs
● If Gold publication not possible – embargoed green is acceptable (mandated embargoes vary)
● CC-BY licence required for Gold, CC-BY-NC for Green
● Block Grants to fund APCs being made available directly to the University - Light touch regulation with universities left to decide how to they want to administer
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Implications
● Universities left to decide how to use block grants
● They will be left to decide what is “important” – what needs to be published fast (Gold) what can wait to be published (Green)
● Libraries will expect to see a reduction on subscription fees commensurate with what they are paying in APCs
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Beginning 2014 all articles produced with funding from Horizon 2020 will have to be accessible either by:• Gold with APC eligible for reimbursement• Green with an embargo of no later than 6 months (12 months
for HSS)
The goal is for 60% of European publicly-funded research articles to be available under open access by 2016.
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“…participants…will establish and endorse a Statement of Principles on Research Integrity and agree on an action plan for
implementing Open Access to Publications”
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