Transcript Open Access Journals - The Golden Route to Open Access

Open Access Journals - The
Gold Route to Open Access
Francis Jayakanth
National Centre for Science Information
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore – 560 012
[email protected]
Scientific Journals
• A scientific journal is a periodical publication
intended to further the progress of science,
usually by reporting new research
• Most journals are highly specialized, although
some of the oldest journals such as Nature
publish articles and scientific papers across a
wide range of scientific fields
• Scientific journals contain articles that have been
peer reviewed, in an attempt to ensure that
articles meet the journal's standards of quality,
and scientific validity
A History of 300 Years!
• The first scientific
journal: Journal des
savants, published
on 5th January 1665
• Philosophical
Transactions of the
Royal Society of
London, was first
published on 6 March
1665, is being
published to date
From 1950s
• Increased amount of science
• Increased number of publications
• The amount of research results getting to
large for the scientific societies
• Commercial publishers start interfering
with the publishing market
• Commercial publishers identify new
subject areas and start new journals
Serials Crisis
• The term serials crisis has become
common shorthand for the runaway cost
increases of many scholarly journals
• the cost per journal and the number of
such journals are proliferating, while the
funds available to the libraries are
reducing or at best, remains constant
Solutions, Alternatives and
Developments
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Interlibrary loan
Pay-per-view
Cancellation of subscriptions
Consortium-based subscription
supporting journals that use other
publishing models, such as Open Access
Journal
Open Access Journals
• Open access journals are scholarly journals
that are available to the reader "without financial
or other barrier other than access to the internet
itself."
• Open access journals (also called the "gold road
to open access") is one of the two general
methods for providing open access. The other
one (also called the "green road") is selfarchiving in a repository
• The publisher of an open Access journal is
known as an open access publisher, and the
process, open access publishing
Budapest Open Access Initiative
(BOAI)
• The Budapest Open Access Initiative
arises from a small but lively meeting
convened in Budapest by the Open
Society Institute (OSI) on December 1-2,
2001. The purpose of the meeting was to
accelerate progress in the international
effort to make research articles in all
academic fields freely available on the
internet
Economic Models for OA Journals
• Authors pay
• Funding agencies or Institutions pay
• Advertising
Author Pays Model
• Two well-known open access publishers
who follow this model are:
– BioMed Central
– PLoS (Public Library of Science)
BioMed Central
• BMC is a open
access publisher in
the area of STM
• As of 06 Jan’09, 197
open access journals
are being published
• Facilitates hosting of
new OA journals
and/or converting
existing journals to
OA journals
BioMed Central (2)
• Standard Article
processing charge (APC)
: USD 1380
• Several of the BMC
journals do not levy APC
• Individual APC waiver
requests will be
considered on a case-bycase basis
• Recently launched, Open
Repository, a hosted
institutional repository
service
PLoS
• PLoS is a nonprofit
organization of scientists
and physicians committed
to making the world's
scientific and medical
literature a freely
available public resource
• Publishes seven peer
reviewed OA journals
• Average APC: USD 2000
Bioline International
• Bioline International
is a not-for-profit
scholarly publishing
cooperative
committed to
providing open
access to quality
research journals
published in
developing countries
Bioline International (2)
• currently from
Bangladesh, Brazil,
Chile, China,
Colombia, Egypt,
Ghana, India, Iran,
Kenya, Malaysia,
Nigeria, Tanzania,
Turkey, Uganda and
Venezuel
1. Medknow Publications
• Provides publishing
solutions for the scientific
community
• For the present, 77 peer
reviewed titles are being
hosted
• Revenue through
advertisements and print
subscription
• Print subscription
continues to be popular
2. Indian Medlars Centre
• One point resource
of peer reviewed
Indian biomedical
literature covering
full text of IndMED
journals
• No. of titles to date:
40
3. Indian Academy of Sciences
• No. of titles: 11
• Revenue through
advertisements and
print subscription
• Print subscription
continues to be
popular
Directory of Open Access Journals
• This service covers
free, full text, quality
controlled scientific
and scholarly journals
• There are now 3812
journals in the
directory. Currently
1342 journals are
searchable at article
level
Indian Initiatives in DoAJ
Open-source Journal
Management Software
References
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_journ
al
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serials_crisis
• http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
• http://www.searchguide.se/oa/eng/wpcontent/uploads/2008/05/bakgrund_oatidskrifter_eng.ppt