scielo15 keynote talk
TRANSCRIPT
SciELO15, 23rd October, 2013
Open-access
publishing and the
transformation of
scholarly
communication
Mark Patterson, Executive Director, eLife
March 23rd, 2001
Harold Varmus Pat Brown Mike Eisen
Open access
>Free
access
Feb 1st 2001
October, 2003 October, 2004
Oct 13th
2005
Growth of open access publishing
OA journals with APCOA journals no APCOA journals with print subscription
Laakso and Björk BMC Medicine 2012 10:124 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-124
%PubMed available as open access in
PMC
0.0%
2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
14.0%
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Where’s the disruption?
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News070712-X1.1flare.html
First disruption
The megajournal
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
PLOS ONE growth
Open-access
megajournals
• Cost-effective• Scalable, and can grow quickly• Great for authors• Strong competition for conventional
approaches• An open platform for research
communication
Megajournals as a disruptive force
Second disruption
Direct funding of OA
publishing
Online
Estimates the
proportion of open
access content in
Brazil (2008-2011) to
be 63%
“…no doubt due to
the important
contribution of
SciELO.”
• Cost-effective• Scalable, and can grow quickly• Great for authors• Strong competition for conventional
approaches• An open platform for research
communication
SciELO as a disruptive force
Funders taking direct action
eLife: motivations
Serve science
Swift, fairdecisiveprocess
ExploitdigitalMedia
Open access
eLife – scope
• BROAD
From basic and theoretical work to
translational, applied and clinical research.
• SELECTIVE
Highly influential work that advances understanding,
opens new doors or has real-world impacts.
Editors
• Editor-in-Chief• 2 Deputy eds• 17 Senior eds• Board of
reviewing eds~180
eLife Lens http://lens.elifesciences.org/
Third disruption
Reforming research
assessment
Research
assessment
InstitutionsResearchers (authors
and readers)
Publishers
Funders
Policy makersThe public
Librarians
“Dear Public Library of Science people,
I just listened to a mouse song on line…
I do not have the funds to subscribe to the traditional science journals.
Tomorrow my students will hear the same mouse song I listened to and I amsure they will be as enchanted and interested as I am. The idea of openaccess to original research papers is very exciting to someone in my position…
I can assure you that the availability of research papers will benefit the future of scientific research by providing motivation and stimulation for millions of fledgling scientists.
Sincerely, Science Teacher”
Some impact is hard to measure
The impact
factor is…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/m2w2/191545978/sizes/z/in/photostream/
• a journal-based metric• proprietary• incomplete
Policy and practiceMedia
Textbooks
Usage
Citations
Reference managers
Wikipedia
v10
• From one measure to many• From journal to article• From one output to many
New metrics and indicators of scholarship
• Recommendations for
publishers, funders, institutio
ns, metrics suppliers, and
researchers
• >9000 signatories
• Make sure you sign up today
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24736216@N07/7758828268/ (CC BY-NC2.0)
• Open access publishing is here to stay• Disruptive forces are at work
megajournals direct funding reform of assessment and much more…
Summary
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anandham/4499539060/
Open access is one part of a much broader transition
InteroperabilityAssessmentSustainability
