Slides from the PeerJ presentation to Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL) on May 23rd 2013. As hosted by Mark Biggin. Originally titled “What's All the Fuss About Open Access? What Do I Need to Know, and How Does it Benefit Me?”
Open Access - PeerJ Presentation to Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL)
1. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Open Access
What’sHappening?
Pete Binfield
Co-Founder and Publisher
PeerJ
May 23rd
, 2013
@ThePeerJ
https://peerj.com
@p_binfield
pete@peerj.com
3. Annual Article Output of all OA
Source: “Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure”, Laakso & Björk
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/10/124 (BMC Medicine, Oct 2012)
5. Predicted ‘Disruption Timeframe’ of OA vs Subscription model
Source: “The Inevitability of Open Access”, David Lewis
http://crl.acrl.org/content/73/5/493.full.pdf+html (College and Research Libraries, Sep 2012
This is what all the ‘fuss’ is about…
6. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
What is Open Access?
• The Bethesda Definition of Open Access (2003)
– Free, immediate access
– Deposition in a digital public archive
– Unrestricted reuse
So it’s an Access Model, not a Business Model.
But really it’s about what that Access enables…
7. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
What does OA Enable?
• Full Ability to Re-Use
– Text Mining
– Data Mining
– Semantic Searching
– Computational Analysis
– Machine Reading
• Universal Access
– Bulk Downloading
• Transparency
– Reproducibility
8. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
What is Moving Open Access Forwards?
• ~ 81% of all content co uld be made openly
available today
• But only ~15% is actually made available
• So clearly user desire isn’t moving it forwards…
http://www.openaccesspublishing.org/apc8/
Personal%20VersionGreenOa.pdf
“Anatomy of Green Open Access” - Preprint
of an article accepted for publication in
Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology. Bjork
et al
9. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
What is Moving Open Access Forwards
Mandates
- Funder Mandates
- Governmental Mandates
- Institutional Mandates
Growing Critical Mass and (Some) Awareness of Benefits
- ~15% of all content is OA
- PLOS ONE now the 3rd
most cited journal in the world and published 2%
of the literature in 2012
- There are ‘self evident’ benefits to exposure, citations, speed, usage
Innovation
- New products
- New functionality
- New ways of thinking
10. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
What is Moving Open Access Forwards
Mandates
- Funder Mandates
- Governmental Mandates
- Institutional Mandates
Growing Critical Mass and (Some) Awareness of Benefits
- ~15% of all content is OA
- PLOS ONE now the 3rd
most cited journal in the world and published 2%
of the literature in 2012
- There are ‘self evident’ benefits to exposure, citations, speed, usage
Innovation
- New products
- New functionality
- New ways of thinking
11. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Number of Active Policies Worldwide
• Institutional/University Mandates: 168
• Sub-institutional mandates: 37
• Multi-institutional mandates: 4
• Funder mandates: 80
TOTAL policies: 289
12. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
• More than 2.5 million full text articles are now available
though PubMed Central.
• More than 700,000 unique users access those articles -
every day.
• More than 2/3rds of the users come from outside of
the academic community.
• Over 80% of eligible researchers comply.
• Policy is cost effective – less than 1/100th
of 1% of NIH’s
overall operating budget.
The NIH Public Access Policy
13. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
“The Fair Access to Science and Technology Act”
New Legislation has been proposed (and an Executive Directive
is now in place) for the expansion of the NIH Policy to all other
U.S. Federal Science Agencies
This directive (Feb 22nd
) applies to 23 U.S. Departments and
Agencies that fund >$100M in research per year.
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17. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
What is Moving Open Access Forwards
Mandates
- Funder Mandates
- Governmental Mandates
- Institutional Mandates
Growing Critical Mass and (Some) Awareness of Benefits
- ~15% of all content is OA
- PLOS ONE now the 3rd
most cited journal in the world and published 2%
of the literature in 2012
- There are ‘self evident’ benefits wrt exposure, citations, speed, usage
Innovation
- New products
- New functionality
- New ways of thinking
18. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
What is Moving Open Access Forwards
Mandates
- Funder Mandates
- Governmental Mandates
- Institutional Mandates
Growing Critical Mass and (Some) Awareness of Benefits
- ~15% of all content is OA
- PLOS ONE now the 3rd
most cited journal in the world and published 2%
of the literature in 2012
- There are ‘self evident’ benefits wrt exposure, citations, speed, usage
Innovation
- New products
- New functionality
- New ways of thinking
19. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
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New Products
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24. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Interesting Features
The Academic’s Experience
- Users are valued as individuals
- Single sign on, consistent user interaction
- Clear / user friendly interfaces
- Attractive presentation
- User profiles
- Participation Credit
- Rapid processes
- Reviewers are rewarded; undergraduates publish for free
- Spend time doing science, not jumping through our hoops
- Despite low price, nothing is compromised
25. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Interesting Features
PeerJ
- A broad based journal in the biological and medical sciences,
judging submissions based only on technical and scientific
validity
- Fully peer reviewed, with rapid review process handled by a
(very) large editorial board of 800, including 5 Nobel
Laureates
- ‘Born digital’ functionality
- Operates an optional ‘Open’ Peer Review process
- Provides engagement metrics to incentivize ‘good’ behavior
- Full suite of Article Level Metrics
- Members incentivized to participate in the peer review
process
32. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Interesting Features
PeerJ PrePrints
- A preprint server for the biological and medical sciences
- Provides DOIs, is archived, is indexed
- Includes versioning functionality
- Engagement and commenting linked to reputation metrics
- A full suite of ‘privacy’ controls to encourage participation
- Faceted search that combines all users / content / roles
- An experimental space where new features, functionalities
and standards can be tried out
36. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
What is Holding Open Access Back?
• Evaluation processes that value the wrong things
• An outdated attitude towards perceived ‘prestige’
• Lack of awareness when making publication
decisions
37. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Predictions
• Open Access will rapidly replace the subscription
– by 2017, 50% of content will be OA
• Prices will come down but ‘features’ will increase
• New businesses and new business models will
evolve to take advantage of OA content
38. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Thank You
Pete Binfield
Co-Founder and Publisher
@p_binfield
pete@peerj.com
@ThePeerJ
https://peerj.com
Hinweis der Redaktion
TAXPAYER funded research. In the U.S., the notion of “Taxpayer Access” has become a central concept in creating policies encouraging open access to the results of research. This idea has helped to form the nexus of a set of goals that are now clearly articulated - and generally accepted - in discussions of OA policy development and implementation – t