The document discusses the growth of open access publishing from 2010 to the present. It notes that there are now over 5,600 open access journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals and over 1,000 are indexed by the ISI Web of Knowledge. Open access is now mandated by over 100 institutions and 45 funders. Submissions to open access journals grew 44% from 2008 to 2009. The costs of open access publishing are supported through article processing charges paid by authors, funders, or institutions. Open access publishing is proving to increase the visibility and impact of research.
2. Scope
• The open access landscape and its growth
• Open access and impact
• Managing the cost of OA publishing
• The future…
3. Where is open access in 2010?
• There are over 5600 open access journals in the DOAJ
• Over 1000 open access journals are indexed by ISI
• Open access to research is now mandated in over 100
institutions and by 45 funders.
• Submissions to OA journals grew by over 44% between 2008
and 2009
• Open access firmly part of the mainstream..
6. Open access policies
30/06/2008 31/03/2009 03/31/2010
Institutional 20 31 87
Funder 23 35 44
Departmental 4 6 21
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160Numberofmandates
Growth in mandates
Data courtesy of www.openscholarship.org
7. Policy highlights
• 46 funder policies including RCUK, Wellcome
Trust, NIH Public Access Policy
• Institutional policies
- 3 times as many policies than a year ago
- Compact for open-access publishing equity (COPE)
- Number of policies within Africa?....
Information on all policies available at
www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
16. Open access having impact
• Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation
advantage: Studies and results to date.
- 27 of 31 show open access having a positive
citation advantage
- Where positive advantage - increase in citations
varying from -5 to 600%
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/
20. How do the finances work?
• Article-processing charge (APC)
Covers
– Editorial: handling of manuscripts
– Technical: development, maintenance and operation of online
journal system
– Production: Formatting and markup of articles, inclusion in indexing
services
– Marketing: Making sure readers and authors know about the
journal
– Customer service: Responding to authors/readers
• Web technology is used to keep costs low
21. Open access publication charges
• BioMed Central APC comparison page
lists publishers’ open access charges
• BioMed Central’s charges (~£995 /
$1620) are at the lower end
• For comparison, traditional publishers
often charge $3000 or more for open
access option, in addition to
subscription charges
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors /apccomparison
22. Article-processing charges - who
pays?
• Authors may pay out of grant funds
• Some funders provide a central fund for open
access publishing costs
• Institutions may cover costs centrally, on
behalf of their authors, via BioMed Central
Institutional Membership
• Some titles cover costs themselves
24. Institutional Membership
• Supporter Membership
Institution pays a flat fee, authors pay a
discounted Article Processing Charge
• Prepay Membership
Institution covers cost of publication
centrally, at a discounted rate
• Shared Support Membership
Institution and author share the cost
the APC equally
29. Conclusions
• Open access journals are proving to offer impact
• Variety of payment routes for APCs being explored
• Open access movement going from strength to strength
• So much scope for more growth still, especially within Africa
• CALL TO ACTION: what could you do?
* Charts number of OA policies over recent years* These mandates are either…..*last year still saw a 25% growth in funder policies*significant growth though, a real explosion was in institutional policies – almost tripling the amount of the previous year.
*20% year on year growth
*On average at least 10 new journals being added to the portfolioGrowth in OA journals is significant because it has become the more financially attractive way to launch journalsIts not easy to launch a new journal with library subscription budgets reducing, but OA makes it possibleInterestingly though for BMC, that whilst we are branching into new subject areas and launching new journals, many of our new titles are increasingly from journals, societies, wanting to transfer to the OA model.>>>>>not surprising that all of the growth in these areas leads to an increase in submissions….
*30% growth in submissions
Over 340 worldwide but only 2 in Africa….Stellenbosch and University of the Witwatersrand
