Background to Open Access

Open Access: the impact for libraries and librarians 10 th December 2010 Bill Hubbard

What is

Open Access

- #1

Open to read?

Open to use?

Open to re-use?

What

is Open Access - #2

Publications • pre-prints • post-prints Data Grey literature Conference papers Theses Arts multimedia Teaching and Learning materials

. . . what else?

Why Open Access?

Many drivers . . . Serials Crisis Academic need Moral case Financial rationale Because we can!

What Open Access is not . . .

a subversion of peer-review • but academics may want to modify current models a replacement for publication • but the world may move that way an invitation to plagiarism • and it might become the norm to

prevent

plagiarism an attack on copyright • but it does throw up some anomalies which creators are starting to question

Where we are so far . . .

Repositories • 1815 worldwide, 183 UK-based Journals • 848 journals worldwide - plus hybrids Funder policies • Publications: 54 - Data: 25 Institutional policies • 108 policies reported, plus etheses Services and processes

Building Open Access

Academics are in favour Institutions are in favour Funders are in favour What is needed are systems and workflows, not any sort of “hard sell”

Change is coming . . .

668,778 People 44,488 Groups 53,714,120 Papers 16,057 Institutions

Change is coming . . .

Green and Gold - Repositories and Journals email Personal websites Mendeley, Facebook, etc Flickr YouTube Slideshare

OA repositories and journals offer control, authority, transparency and commercial clarity

Areas to examine

How does this work as a system?

Open Access and publishers Open Access and institutions Open Access and funders Managing OA publishing in institutions Managing OA repositories in institutions OA in a wider context

Today’s speakers

Economic case for Open Access •

Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd

Open Access: a publisher perspective •

Wim van der Stelt, Executive Vice President Corporate Strategy, Springer

Case Study of an integrated institutional approach . . . •

Susan Ashworth, Assistant Director, Library, University of Glasgow

Funder Open Access policies: the Wellcome Trust •

Dave Carr, Policy Adviser, the Wellcome Trust

Institutional funding for Open Access publishing •

Chris Middleton, Head of Academic Services, University of Nottingham

Repository management: a new professional role for librarians •

Jackie Wickham, Centre for Research Communications

University and Research Libraries in Europe: …towards Open Access •

Paul Ayris, Library Director, University College, London

Bill Hubbard [email protected]