Open access publishing the aosis journey
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The document discusses the journey of AOSIS (African Online Scientific Information Systems), an open access publisher, into open access scholarly publishing. It describes how AOSIS began in 2005 by making the journal South African Family Practice open access online. Since then, AOSIS has grown to publish over 25 open access journals using the open source journal management system Open Journal Systems. The document reflects on the challenges of transitioning to open access publishing in Africa and the slow but steady growth of open access on the continent over the past decade.
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Open access publishing the aosis journey
- 1. Open Access Scholarly Publishing The AOSIS journey Pierre JT de Villiers Managing Director: OpenJournals Publishing African Online Scientific Information Systems (AOSIS) Pty Ltd
- 2. Perspectives from an Open Access Publisher How I become involved in OA The AOSIS journey 2005 – 2010 Reflections on this journey
- 3. How I became involved in Open Access
- 4. South African Family Practice (incl. Geneeskunde) Editor - 1998 Society journal Print only – bi monthly 4000 free distribution to members & GP’s Advertising income
- 5. South African Family Practice (incl. Geneeskunde) 4 manuscripts on desk! Low submissions Locally read (?) Difficult production Not economically viable due to lack of interest amongst GP’s
- 6. 2005
- 7. World flatteners Creative software The internet Open source software Search engines Outsourcing
- 8. Open Journal Systems (OJS) 6600 titles (July 2010) 2001 - Open source Software
- 9. Online December 2005 First OJS journal in RSA Open Access June 2006
- 10. SAFP on the charts
- 11. SAFP cities Oct 2010 10,000 visitors per month
- 13. E-Learning services www.ituta.net www.ecpd.co.za Est. 1999
- 14. Need: Services for OA journals
- 15. OJS Est. 2007
- 16. Editor Reject Section Editor Reject External Reviewer External Reviewer External Reviewer Reviewer’s Recommendation Editorial Recommendation Publish Author
- 17. OJP Production Flow Manuscript uploaded on system Peer review (2 reviewers) Copyediting (3 steps) Layout editing Proofreading (3 steps) Publication (immediate)
- 18. Starting the journey 2007 OJS support for Medpharm Publications 10 titles 2008 First OA journal
- 19. Title growth 3 7 10
- 20. Manuscript growth Submitted v/s published manuscripts
- 21. Achievements First OJS deployment in RSA (SAFP) 23 First DOI registration with Crossref from RSA www.crossref.org Scielo SA – first publisher to join www.scielo.org.za
- 22. Achievements First XML journal publication in RSA (PDF, HTML & XML) First OASPA member from Sub-Saharan Africa First SPARC Europe seal for open access journals for an African journal
- 23. Reflection on the journey
- 24. Coversion to OA is slow (but sure)
- 25. Current situation (OA) - 2010 International estimates: 3-14% (Gold) African Journals Online (AJOL) 103/397 Peer reviewed journals in Africa ( 26% ) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) RSA 26/315 (8%) Own count 2009 = 25% of DHET accredited
- 26. OA per discipline - 2009 Bo-Christer Björk et al, PloS One, June 2010
- 27. Obstacles to OA conversion in RSA Society membership: benefits closed club In-house control: individuals, universities (fear of outsourcing) Fear of change and technology: XML, DOI, no print
- 28. Obstacles to OA conversion in RSA Financial viability: Title owners reaping benefits, but not investing Perceived costs: Outsourcing v/s hidden costs – staff, offices, communication Commercial toll access publisher buy-outs (honey trap)
- 29. Author side publication fees (page fees) feasible in RSA
- 30. Who pays for the beer? Production cost Author side publication fees OR Title owner subsidy OR Both (mix)
- 31. Page fees experience Usually paid by institution – growing support DHET subsidy support Range R1,500 – R5,000 per article Theology Industrial psychology Health science Management science
- 32. Supporting research, not business models “ The institutions that pay for journal subscriptions aren't trying to support the TA business model; they're trying to support research. They won't follow the business model; they'll follow the authors .” Peter Suber
- 33. Who is in the driving seat? "I think you will quickly discover that journals (even the arrogant ones) need authors more than authors need them." Richard Smith
- 35. “ Measuring up” challenge for OA Universities/NRF use prestige & impact for reward (surrogate for quality) Most high-prestige journals are TA and have good IF’s Most OA journals are new (no, low IF) Progress: some OA journals top IF
- 36. Prestige Prestige is the flywheel preserving the present system long into the era when it might have been superseded by a superior alternative. Or viewed from the other side, it's the flywheel delaying progress . Peter Suber
- 37. Science research papers 2001
- 38. World flatteners Creative software The internet Open source software Search engines Outsourcing
- 39. The key……is OA [email_address]