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Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_JoeAssistant Director, Right to Research CoalitionCo-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button
Open Access Researchand code
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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
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Average journal price in Chemistry:
Biology
= $2,520
Geography
= $1,308
Physics
= $3,870
= $4,215
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Source: Library Journal 2014 Periodicals Pricing Survey“Steps Down the Evolutionary Road | Periodicals Price Survey 2014,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal, April 11, 2014: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/04/publishing/steps-down-the-evolutionary-road-periodicals-price-survey-2014/#_
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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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Serial Ex-penditures(+402%)
Monograph Ex-penditures(+71%)
Monographs Purchased (10%)
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Publishing obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry:
“a licence to print money.”
Source: The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574www.sparc.arl.org
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Publishing is big business…
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http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200
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80% of research is
publicly funded
Source: “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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Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articleswith full reuse rights
Budapest Open Access Initiative
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Figure available at http://www.science-metrix.com/pdf/SM_EC_OA_Availability_2004-2011.pdf
1. http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124#s8, 2. retractionwatch.com 3. www.nature.com/news/first-results-from-psychology-s-largest-reproducibility-test-1.17433
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More here: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/5/181/181ra50
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From: www.nature.com/news/code-share-1.16232 and www.mozillascience.org/projects/codemeta
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