Virginia Barbour’s presentation at the Research Support Community Day 2016 in Melbourne

1. Open access - where are we now
and where to from here?
Virginia Barbour
Executive Officer, AOASG; Chair, COPE
0000-0002-2358-2440
eo@aoasg.org.au
@ginnybarbour

2. My interests
• Executive Officer, Australasian Open Access Support Group
• Chair, Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
• Involved in a number of publishing initiatives, including
EQUATOR, AllTrials
• Joint appointment at QUT between Office of Research
Ethics and Integrity, and Division of Technology,
Information and Learning Support
• Adjunct/honorary Professor at UQ and Griffith
• Previously Chief Editor PLOS Medicine, then Medicine and
Biology Editorial Director, PLOS

3. Australasian Open Access Support
Group – AOASG
Information
Advocacy
Resources
Discussions
Graphics
Blogs, Twitter
@openaccess_oz
www.aoasg.org.au
Member Institutions
ANU
Charles Sturt
Curtin
Griffith
Macquarie
Melbourne
Newcastle
QUT
Victoria
UWA
CONZUL

4. AOASG supporting Institutions
ANU
Charles Sturt
Curtin
UWA
Griffith
QUT
Newcastle
Macquarie
Victoria
Council of New
Zealand University
Librarians - CONZUL

5. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Purple_rock_crabs_(Leptograpsus_variegatus)_lurking_in_a_cre
vice_under_Lion_Rock.jpg
Open access – what’s that???

6. Fig 3. Percentage of papers published by the five major publishers, by discipline
in the Natural and Medical Sciences, 1973–2013.
Larivière V, Haustein S, Mongeon P (2015) The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127502.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0127502
http://127.0.0.1:8081/plosone/article?id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0127502
We are at a critical time in publishing

7. But we also have a
diverse ecosystem
developing…

8. …and we are in a phase of accelerated
innovation
Bianca Kramer &
Jeroen Bosman
Geneva Workshop
on Innovations in
Scholarly
Communication
(OAI9), Geneva,
June 18, 2015

9. How innovation in infrastructure helps
tell a story about penguin poo
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adelie_penguin_(Pygoscelis_adeli
ae),_walking.jpg

12. So we have a lot of the core
infrastructure in place
• OA definitions
• Machine and human
readable licenses
• Unique author ID
• Unique article & sub-
article ID
• Accurate crosslinking
• Article versioning

13. Live areas
1. The need for proper licensing and legal structures

14. Open Access
=
free access
+
reuse rights
+
author attribution rights
+
permanent archiving

15. Licenses as essential infrastructure
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

16. Knowing the license means you know
what you can do with a research output

17. Live areas
1. The need for proper licensing and legal structures
2. An innovation culture

18. Open access to publications is one of
many “open” innovation initiatives
Data
Rights
Publishing

19. There is now a complex OA publishing
ecosystem
• Preprints
• Journals
• Archiving
• Book & monograph publishing

20. Innovations circumventing traditional
publishers

21. • A sustainable route to OA for HSS books (long-form
publications)
• Spread costs of OA across many institutions
globally
• Ensuring that HSS long-form publications are as
accessible as OA science journals
• Help libraries to maximize the positive impact of
spending on books
Knowledge Unlatched

22. The 2013/14 Pilot
• Proof of concept for Knowledge Unlatched
• 28 new books from 13 publishers
• Literature; History; Politics; Media & Communications
• Needed support from at least 200 libraries from around the
world to become OA
• If 200 libraries pledged cost per library $60 per book
• Nearly 300 libraries pledged. Cost per library $43 per book

23. • 8 packages of ~10 books each
• Libraries must support at least 6 of the 8
packages on offer
• Average price per book: $49.88 (if 300
libraries participate).
• 28 Feb 2016 – pledging period ends
• March/April 2016 – unlatching of books
(or upon publication)
Round 2 Details

24. Innovations circumventing traditional publishers
– pre & post publication peer review

25. Live areas
1. The need for proper licensing and legal structures
2. An innovation culture
3. Coordinated, high level policy action

26. The flow of money is complex
Lawson, Stuart; Gray, Jonathan; Mauri, Michele (2015): Opening the Black Box of Scholarly
Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic
Publishing. .
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1601864

27. OA in Australia and New Zealand
• Universities predominantly green policies via
institutional repositories
• Some institutions support Gold OA publishing
• Green OA policies from major funders,
NHMRC and ARC

28. OA policies in Australia & New Zealand
Vary in strength and specificity
http://roarmap.eprints.org/

29. Open data at Federal level
“At a minimum, Australian Government entities will publish
appropriately anonymised government data by default:
…under a Creative Commons By Attribution licence unless a
clear case is made to the Department of the Prime Minister
and Cabinet for another open licence”

30. Open access to publications is a core part of research
infrastructure globally

31. Recent global OA developments
• HEFCE: starting April 2016,
– “to be eligible for submission to the next REF, authors’ final peer-reviewed
manuscripts must have been deposited in an institutional or subject
repository.”
• League of European Universities’ Statement for the 2016 Dutch EU
Presidency
– “Christmas is over! ”Research funding should go to research, not to
publishers
• Max Planck Digital Library publishes model of viability of journal flipping
model at country level
• Austrian Open Access network published 16 step plan for Gold OA in
Austria by 2025
• Dutch national OA deals with Elsevier, Springer and Wiley
• Berlin 12, December 2015 meeting aimed to get consensus of next
global move in OA

32. 2016 will be the year to watch in OA!
www.aoasg.org.au
@openaccess_oz