Introduction to Open Access

            Robert Perret
     Savvy Skills for Researchers
           October 2011
         University of Idaho
What is Open Access?
• Free of charge(to the reader)
• Free of most copyright and licensing
  restrictions
• Online
• Digital
• Immediate (No delays or embargoes)
• Full-text
What is Open Access?
• Simply removing the price barrier is not
  sufficient
• Tolerating “fair use” is not sufficient
What is Open Access?
• Per the Bethesda and Berlin statements, to be
  OA the copyright holder must consent in
  advance to let users
  copy, use, print, index, distribute, transmit and
  display the work publically, as well as to make
  and transmit derivative works
• Essentially the only right retained under OA is
  the right to proper attribution of authorship
History of Open Access




            www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/ARPANET.html



• 1969 – Steve Crocker sends a “Request for
  Comment” on his paper about IMP software
  across ARPANet.
http://www.woldgate50.com/Seventies.htm




• 1970 First free online databases
  – Agricola (Government)
  – Project Gutenberg (Private)
http://s3.media.squarespace.com/production/650702/7578546/wp-
           content/uploads/2009/12/1174631634_faad3aaea7_thumb.jpg




• 1971 First email sent by engineer Ray
  Tomlinson
http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Te-Va/Transactinides.html




• 1974 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  begins cataloging electronic pre-print
  literature
http://echo.gmu.edu/node/5147




• 1979 USENET created
• 1981 JANET and BITNET
http://www.photosfan.com/images/ealy-home-computer-pcs.jpg




• 1983 – ARPAnet switches protocols from NCP
  to TCP/IP. Generally considered to be the
  birth of the Internet.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/photographs/large/c6289-25a.jpg



• 1985 The White House issues National
  Security Decisions Directive 189 stating that
  “to the maximum extent possible, the
  products of fundamental research remain
  unrestricted.”
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTwj-
                 H3pjRpNmynksyoAj5QdDVUFejpl7VixKcvrBarVU367JEw




• 1987 Syracuse University launches New
  Horizons in Adult Education, the first
  free, online peer-reviewed journal
emeraldinsight.com




• 1990 Hytelnet, the first online hypertext
  internet directory
www.guardian.co.uk




• 1990 CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee creates
  the first web client and server
http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=394653




• 1991 GOPHER protocol launched
http://www.library.rochester.edu/images_Dbases/DB_icon_Project_Muse.gif




• 1993 Project MUSE provides free full-text
  searching and authors retain copyright
http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/17257797fb4c1f67145f388dd39519a4_1M.png


• 1994 National Academy Press provides free
  full-text versions of all its books online. They
  find that free online copies actually drive the
  sales of print versions.
http://web.archive.org/web/19970126045828/http://www.archive.org/




• 1996 Computer scientist Brewster Kahle
  launches the Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://slashdot.org/




• 1997 Undergrad Rob Malda launches
  “Slashdot”, widely considered to be the first blog
http://web.archive.org/web/20000229093412/http://www.openarchives.org/




• 1999 Open Archives Initiative launched
http://web.archive.org/web/20010727112808/http://www.wikipedia.org/




• 2001 Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales
  launches Wikipedia
http://www.researchinformation.info/rimarapr05oaister.html




• 2002 OAIster launched by University of
  Michigan
http://web.archive.org/web/20110628180027/http://creativecommons.org/




• 2002 Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig
  launches the Creative Commons system
http://web.archive.org/web/20030214235014/http://www.doaj.org/




• 2003 The Directory of Open Access Journals
  launches
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm




• 2003 Bethesda Statement on Open Access
  Publishing released
http://web.archive.org/web/20110722063241/http://books.google.com/




• 2004 Google Scholar and Google Books
http://blogs.library.ualberta.ca/libnews/wp-
                   content/uploads/2008/10/oad_120x240.jpg




• 2008 First International Open Access Day
http://web.archive.org/web/20070114162346/http://www.wikileaks.org/index.html




• 2009 Wikileaks created
http://web.archive.org/web/20090315183941/http://www.openaccessweek.org/




• 2009 First International Open Access Week
What OA is intended to do
• Block plagiarism and misrepresentation
• Impedes commercial re-use
• Authorizes and facilitates legitimate
  scholarship
What OA is not intended to do
•   Legitimize vigilante behavior (wikileaks)
•   Facilitate expropriating
•   Encouraging infringing
•   Justify piracy
What OA isn’t
• OA is not the same as universal access. OA
  does not address:
  – Filtering and censorship barriers
  – Language barriers
  – Handicap access
  – Connectivity barriers
Issues in Open Access
• Credibility
  – Peer review
  – Impact factor
• Cost
  – Author fees
     • Self-publishing?
  – Institutional Funds
  – Advertising/Sponsorship
OA Credibility
• The value, rigor, and integrity of peer review is
  independent of the price or medium of a
  journal
• The same procedures, standards, and even the
  same reviewers and editors can be used
Journal vs. Repository
• OA journals have the ability to maintain the same
  standards and practices as traditional peer-
  reviewed journals
• Repositories do not have a quality-control
  function, merely a preservation/access function
• Repositories can also contain
  theses, dissertations, course materials, data
  files, audio and video files, institutional
  records, and digitalized special collections
OA “Business Model”
• In the traditional publisher paradigm, authors
  write, reviewers review, and editors edit
  without direct compensation.
• All of this is supported by research
  institutions.
• Publishers package the writing and then sell
  the product back to the research institutions
  that created the writing in the first place.
OA “Business Model”
• Academics write and edit for impact and career
  advancement, not (directly) profit, so OA is compatible
  and even advantageous
• Institutions are already paying for published research
  (twice) with diminishing returns on access
• Supporting the system by paying once upfront instead
  of on an ongoing basis is advantageous for institutions
  in the long run
• Large institutions will publish more articles and bear
  more cost, but will be buying the same prestige and
  impact they are already buying at a lower cost, with
  greater access for everyone, including themselves
Reduced cost
• OA reduces the cost of scholarly publishing by:
  – Eliminating print
  – Eliminating subscription management
  – Eliminating DRM
  – Reducing legal expenses
  – Reducing marketing costs by relying on social
    media and search engines
Mitigated costs
• Some OA resources offset costs by:
  – Author/publication fee
  – Advertising
  – Add-ons
  – Auxiliary Services
Need for Open Access

              Journal costs outpace
              inflation by 400%
              since the 1980s!

              Quantity of scholarly
              information is
              growing while access
              is disappearing!
Advantages to institution
•   Broader access to resources
•   Lower-cost in the long-run
•   Facilitates text and data mining
•   Increases author visibility and impact
•   Advances mission to share knowledge
OA and public funding
• Open Access publishing is now often required
  to receive public funding, except for classified
  military research, patentable discoveries, and
  research that generates royalties
Open Access Fund
• Pool of money set aside by an institution or
  other research-sponsoring entity specifically
  to defray or cover OA journal processing fees
• Cornell University, Dartmouth
  College, Harvard University, MIT, and UC
  Berkeley
Advantages for authors
• Wider audience and greater impact than
  subscription journals (Studies vary by
  discipline and journal, but 2011 studies
  showed an increase of citation between 130%-
  740%. Looking at the past several years, it
  seems safe to say that OA publishing easily
  doubles the number of citations in most
  cases.)
        http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
Advantages for journals/publishers
• Increased visibility may attracts:
  – Submissions
  – Advertisers
  – Readers
  – Citations
• May be combined with subscription strategies
Open Access Availability
• Estimated 4200 open access peer-reviewed
  journals
• Directory of Open Access Journals is a great
  resource
• It has been estimated that about 20% of
  scholarly papers are published OA http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-
  biblio.html
Open Access vs. Creative Commons
• Creative Commons is a standardized system
  for indicating that an author has granted
  permissive rights to a work
• OA and CC are not the same thing
• However, sufficiently permissive CC licenses
  may be compatible with OA
• Similar impetus
Author Permission
• Be aware that if you have already transferred
  copyright to a publisher, you must now seek
  permission for OA publication, even repository
  storage
Green OA
• However, many publishers provide blanket
  permission for Green OA, or placing any pre-
  publication draft in an OA repository
• This can include drafts that have been through
  the peer review process – anything up until
  you sign the contract on the final proof
• Project SHERPA is an online clearinghouse for
  publishing agreements – including Green OA
Resources
•   www.righttoresearch.org
•   www.doaj.org
•   http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
•   Effect on Impact Factor bibliography
Citations
• Björk, B.-C., Welling, P., Laakso, M., Majlender, P., Hedlund, T., &
  Guðnason, G. (2010). Open Access to the Scientific Journal
  Literature: Situation 2009. PLoS ONE, 5(6), e11273.
  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011273
• Eyal Amiran. (2010). The Open Access Debate. symploke, 18(1-
  2), 251-260.
• Jacobs, N. (2006). Open access  key strategic, technical and
                                     :
  economic aspects. Oxford: Chandos.
• Laakso, M., Welling, P., Bukvova, H., Nyman, L., Björk, B.-C., &
  Hedlund, T. (2011). The Development of Open Access Journal
  Publishing from 1993 to 2009. PLoS ONE, 6(6), e20961.
  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020961
• Willinsky, J. (2006). The access principle  the case for open access
                                              :
  to research and scholarship. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press.

More Related Content

PDF
Basic aspects of Open Access
PPTX
Thinking about resource issues: copyright and open access
PDF
Open Access and Libraries
PPTX
Open access resources
PDF
Open Access Publishing at IDI NTNU
PDF
Open access talk 25 June 2013
PPTX
Open access for academics
PPT
Scholarly Communications Brown Bag 2 9 09 A Amended
Basic aspects of Open Access
Thinking about resource issues: copyright and open access
Open Access and Libraries
Open access resources
Open Access Publishing at IDI NTNU
Open access talk 25 June 2013
Open access for academics
Scholarly Communications Brown Bag 2 9 09 A Amended

What's hot (19)

PPTX
Open access Resources for Teachers - Importance of open access Journals
PPTX
Open access publication (RET workshop)
PPTX
Your Work, Your Rights: Retain Your Copyright
PPT
Web 2.0 Technologies - Wikipedia
PPT
Open access for researchers and students, research managers and publishers
PPTX
Open Science @ Instituto Gukbenkian de Ciência
PPTX
Copyright and Online Learning Environments (Nursing)
PPTX
Open Access & Scientific Publishing
PPTX
Open access at cambridge judge business school 29 november 2013
PPT
The Traditional Licensing Model
PDF
Open Access Publishing
PDF
Stanford Open Access Week 2014 presentation
PPTX
Brian Hole - Text and Data Mining - European Parliament presentation
PPT
What works and doesn't work in research dissemination
PDF
Open Access Initiatives in Uganda
PPTX
Library 2.0
PPTX
Using wikipedia as a source of chemical information
PPTX
Brian Hole - The Shift to Open Access Publishing, UCL DH 2013
Open access Resources for Teachers - Importance of open access Journals
Open access publication (RET workshop)
Your Work, Your Rights: Retain Your Copyright
Web 2.0 Technologies - Wikipedia
Open access for researchers and students, research managers and publishers
Open Science @ Instituto Gukbenkian de Ciência
Copyright and Online Learning Environments (Nursing)
Open Access & Scientific Publishing
Open access at cambridge judge business school 29 november 2013
The Traditional Licensing Model
Open Access Publishing
Stanford Open Access Week 2014 presentation
Brian Hole - Text and Data Mining - European Parliament presentation
What works and doesn't work in research dissemination
Open Access Initiatives in Uganda
Library 2.0
Using wikipedia as a source of chemical information
Brian Hole - The Shift to Open Access Publishing, UCL DH 2013
Ad

Viewers also liked (8)

PPT
Business Reference Spring 2009
PPT
Finding Periodical Articles 2009
PPT
Energize Your Business In 2011
PPTX
Government documents reference
PPT
Grid Economics for the Data Center
PPT
Michael Collins
PPTX
Many Clouds, Many Choices
PPTX
Oracle cloudgartnerdatactr2010
Business Reference Spring 2009
Finding Periodical Articles 2009
Energize Your Business In 2011
Government documents reference
Grid Economics for the Data Center
Michael Collins
Many Clouds, Many Choices
Oracle cloudgartnerdatactr2010
Ad

Similar to Open access savvy skills 2011 (20)

PPTX
Nicole Nogoy at the G3 Workshop: Open Access Publishing - What you need to Know
PPTX
Institutional Repositories and Altmetrics for AHSS
PPTX
Internationalising South African Scholarly Journals
PPTX
Open Access Benefits
PDF
ufsojs-161024084446 (1).pdf
PPTX
Online Journal Management using Open Journal Systems (OJS)
PPTX
Open Access: Open Access Looking for ways to increase the reach and impact of...
PPT
eifl event dec_08 intro.ppt
PPT
Emerging Trends in Librarianship (2008)
PPTX
Guide to open source
PPTX
Creative commons
PDF
Open access publishing
PDF
Open Access to Scholarly Communications
PPT
Open Access: the basics & how to do it without paying
PDF
Data and Research Infrastructures and Open Science
PPTX
How practising open research can benefit you
PPTX
A E resources methods Library PPt 05.04.2024.pptx
PPTX
COAR Notify - presentation to PRC Meeting Lyon Notify
PDF
Open Source & Libraries
Nicole Nogoy at the G3 Workshop: Open Access Publishing - What you need to Know
Institutional Repositories and Altmetrics for AHSS
Internationalising South African Scholarly Journals
Open Access Benefits
ufsojs-161024084446 (1).pdf
Online Journal Management using Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Open Access: Open Access Looking for ways to increase the reach and impact of...
eifl event dec_08 intro.ppt
Emerging Trends in Librarianship (2008)
Guide to open source
Creative commons
Open access publishing
Open Access to Scholarly Communications
Open Access: the basics & how to do it without paying
Data and Research Infrastructures and Open Science
How practising open research can benefit you
A E resources methods Library PPt 05.04.2024.pptx
COAR Notify - presentation to PRC Meeting Lyon Notify
Open Source & Libraries

Recently uploaded (20)

PDF
Produktkatalog für HOBO Datenlogger, Wetterstationen, Sensoren, Software und ...
PDF
Comparative analysis of machine learning models for fake news detection in so...
PDF
Convolutional neural network based encoder-decoder for efficient real-time ob...
PDF
Co-training pseudo-labeling for text classification with support vector machi...
PDF
Dell Pro Micro: Speed customer interactions, patient processing, and learning...
PDF
The-2025-Engineering-Revolution-AI-Quality-and-DevOps-Convergence.pdf
PDF
Transform-Your-Streaming-Platform-with-AI-Driven-Quality-Engineering.pdf
PDF
Lung cancer patients survival prediction using outlier detection and optimize...
DOCX
Basics of Cloud Computing - Cloud Ecosystem
PPTX
Custom Battery Pack Design Considerations for Performance and Safety
PDF
AI.gov: A Trojan Horse in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
PDF
CXOs-Are-you-still-doing-manual-DevOps-in-the-age-of-AI.pdf
PDF
Enhancing plagiarism detection using data pre-processing and machine learning...
PDF
NewMind AI Weekly Chronicles – August ’25 Week IV
PDF
Accessing-Finance-in-Jordan-MENA 2024 2025.pdf
PPTX
Microsoft User Copilot Training Slide Deck
PPTX
AI-driven Assurance Across Your End-to-end Network With ThousandEyes
PPTX
future_of_ai_comprehensive_20250822032121.pptx
PPT
Galois Field Theory of Risk: A Perspective, Protocol, and Mathematical Backgr...
PDF
Statistics on Ai - sourced from AIPRM.pdf
Produktkatalog für HOBO Datenlogger, Wetterstationen, Sensoren, Software und ...
Comparative analysis of machine learning models for fake news detection in so...
Convolutional neural network based encoder-decoder for efficient real-time ob...
Co-training pseudo-labeling for text classification with support vector machi...
Dell Pro Micro: Speed customer interactions, patient processing, and learning...
The-2025-Engineering-Revolution-AI-Quality-and-DevOps-Convergence.pdf
Transform-Your-Streaming-Platform-with-AI-Driven-Quality-Engineering.pdf
Lung cancer patients survival prediction using outlier detection and optimize...
Basics of Cloud Computing - Cloud Ecosystem
Custom Battery Pack Design Considerations for Performance and Safety
AI.gov: A Trojan Horse in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
CXOs-Are-you-still-doing-manual-DevOps-in-the-age-of-AI.pdf
Enhancing plagiarism detection using data pre-processing and machine learning...
NewMind AI Weekly Chronicles – August ’25 Week IV
Accessing-Finance-in-Jordan-MENA 2024 2025.pdf
Microsoft User Copilot Training Slide Deck
AI-driven Assurance Across Your End-to-end Network With ThousandEyes
future_of_ai_comprehensive_20250822032121.pptx
Galois Field Theory of Risk: A Perspective, Protocol, and Mathematical Backgr...
Statistics on Ai - sourced from AIPRM.pdf

Open access savvy skills 2011