1. www.openaccessbutton.org
blog.openaccessbutton.org
david@openaccessbutton.org
@OA_Button
@davidecarroll

2. www.righttoresearch.org

4. What’s going wrong?

5. www.righttoresearch.org

6. ???

7. $39,082
Robert Darnton, “The Library: Three Jeremiads,” New York Review of Books, December 23, 2010
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jeremiads

8. Average journal price in Health Sciences:
Chemistry
= $4,450
Physics
= $3,893
Agriculture
= $1,441
= $1,482
Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey"
“The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal,
April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013

9. Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey"
“The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal,
April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013

10. Graph 2
Monograph and Serial Costs
in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011*
% Change Since 1986
425%
313%
200%
88%
-25%
1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010
Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.
*Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward.
Serial
Expenditures
(+402%)
Monograph Expenditures
(+71%)
Monographs
Purchased
(10%)

11. "
Publishing obscure academic journals is "
that rare thing in the media industry: "
“a license to print money.”
The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574

12. Publishing is big business…
www.righttoresearch.org
40-50%
39%

13. Date taken from on August 2nd https://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/

14. Is there a reason publishing should
be this expensive?

15. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200

16. 80% "
of research is "
publicly "
funded
1 Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into shares, HSBC Global
Research, February 11, 2013:
https://www.research.hsbc.com/midas/Res/RDV?ao=20&key=RxArFbnG1P&n=360010.PDF
1

17. Free, immediate online access "
to scientific & scholarly articles"
with full reuse rights
As defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative

19. Two paths to Open Access
Self-archiving
Open Access"
Journals

20. 1. Publish (almost) anywhere, "
deposit into an open-access repository
X 2,000

21. Source: www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/statistics.php?la=en&fIDnum=|&mode=simple

22. 2. Publish in an open-access journal
X >9,700

23. 2. Publish in an open-access journal
$ or $

24. Setting the default to
Open

25. 1,000+ "
Congressional lobbying visits "
over the past 4.5 years
www.righttoresearch.org

26. www.righttoresearch.org

28. June 25, 2012
i) confirms the importance of students having access to research
journals and articles as part of their training;"
"
ii) notes the high cost to institutions and individuals when accessing
scholarly literature;"
"
iii) proposes that this could hinder medical students in their
development as ‘The Doctor as the Scientist’ as well as developing
an evidence based clinical approach;"
"
iv) welcomes and endorses the Right To Research Coalition’s
statement on Open Access to research literature.

29. www.sparc.arl.org

30. “…the degree of student initiative and
engagement at UBC gives this issue a
whole new impetus.”
www.righttoresearch.org

31. But what can you do?

32. www.righttoresearch.org
200,000+ views"
bit.ly/OAexplained

33. www.righttoresearch.org
Watch the Live Stream !
More info available at: www.opencon2014.org

34. Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014

35. So what else can you do?
• Student? Have your organisation join the
R2RC"
• Tell everyone you know"
• Push for OA Policy at your institution"
• Hold presentations & workshops on OA at
meeting or conferences"
• Start/join a new project on Open Access"
• Publish Open Access"
• Use OpenAccessButton.org
www.righttoresearch.org

46. In summary
• Tracks and maps denials of access to research"
• Builds support and engagement for the open
access movement"
• Helps people get access to the research they
need"
• Open Source www.github.com/oabutton"
• Open Data - Exciting things coming soon

48. A new tool
Making it more useful to researchers"
New and improved format"
Revamping repositories and enabling access to research"
Partnering with the Wikipedia community and others"
A tool for campaigning"
"
21st October 2014, 6pm BST"
Livestreaming"
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launch.openaccessbutton.org

49. What can I do?
Collaborate
Advise
Use the Button
Tell people about it
act.openaccessbutton.org
dev.openaccessbutton.org
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Anything else? Hit me up at
david@openaccessbutton.org and @OA_button