Transcript Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access Heather Joseph Executive Director, SPARC October 23, 2009Educause Live.

Throwing Open the Doors:
Strategies and Implications for
Open Access
Heather Joseph
Executive Director, SPARC
October
23, 2009
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Educause Live
What I’ll Cover Today
 Why talk about Open Access?
 Exactly what is Open Access?
 To whom is Open Access Important?
 How do we implement Open Access?
 Who objects to Open Access?
 What can you do to further Open
Access?
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Why Open Access
 Technology lets us bring information to broader
audience at little marginal cost.
 But, research articles are still only available to fraction
of potential users; available articles often have usage
limitations.
 Research is cumulative - only through use of findings is
the value of research investment maximized.
 Call for new framework designed to allow research
results to be more easily accessed and used.
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Open Access
“By open access, we mean its immediate, free
availability on the public internet, permitting
any users to read, download, copy,
distribute, print, search or link to the full
text of these articles, crawl them for
indexing, pass them as data to software or
use them for any other lawful purpose…”
- The Budapest Open Access Initiative
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Open Access is Important to
Libraries
• Mission of library is to provide access and to
facilitate the pursuit of scholarship and
research
• Cost of serials has become prohibitively high,
forcing cancellations and limiting access
• Alternative channels for access sought
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Open Access is Important to
Researchers
• Expand the reach of their work
• Enhance their ability to access works of
interest to them
• Enables new uses of digital articles –
facilitates seamless research threads, data
mining, computational uses, mash-ups.
• Increases visibility and potential impact of
scholarship
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Open Access is Important to
Higher Education
“The broad dissemination of the results of
scholarly inquiry and discourse is essential
for higher education to fulfill its longstanding commitment to the advancement
and conveyance of knowledge. Indeed, it is
mission critical.”
--25 U.S. University Provosts, in an Open Letter to
the Higher Education Community
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Open Access is a Market Issue
“We would expect governments (and taxpayers) to
examine the fact that they are essentially
funding the same purchase three times:
governments and taxpayers fund most academic
research, pay the salaries of the academics who
undertake the peer review process and fund the
libraries that buy the output....We do not see this
as sustainable in the long term….”
- Credit Suisse First Boston, Sector Review: Scientific, Technical and
Medical Publishing. April 6, 2004.)
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Open Access is Important to
Policy Makers
“Governments would boost innovation and get a
better return on their investment in publicly
funded research by making research findings
more widely available…. And by doing so, they
would maximize social returns on public
investments.”
-- International Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development, Report on scientific publishing, 2005
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The Numbers
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Open Access Repositories
FEDERATION
NIH PA Policy Compliance
Opposition
• Strong Intellectual Property Enforcement: Any
perceived threat against strong IP enforcement is
a threat against all IP enforcement.
• Unfair Competition – successful repositories
(campus, institutional, national) – create
resources that directly compete with private sector
• Academic Freedom is threatened – OA
mandates threaten to curtail faculty members’
choice of publishing outlet – unfairly limiting
academic freedom.
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What Can you do to Facilitate
Open Access?
• Promote implementation and use of open
access digital repositories
• Educate your campus on benefits of broad
accessibility and usability of digital articles.
• Promote adoption of standards for
interoperability of digital repositories and their
content.
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• Promote an Author Rights campaign on your
campus
What Can You do to Facilitate
Open Access?
• Hold a symposium or discussion group with
faculty and department heads to identify
potential champions.
• Consider a faculty resolution in support of
Open Access.
• Consider a campus Open Access Policy
• Support publication in - and recognition of –
Open Access Journals.
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Why Focus on Open Access?
“Open access serves scholarly communication by:
facilitating text-mining; data and literature integration;
construction of large-scale knowledge structures; and
creation of co-laboratories that integrate the scholarly
literature directly into knowledge creation and
analysis environments…
It also honors our commitment to the democratization
of teaching, learning, scholarship, and access to
knowledge throughout our society.”
- Clifford Lynch, CNI, Closing comments, ARL/CNI/SPARC Public Access
Forum, October 20, 2006
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Thank you
Heather Dalterio Joseph
[email protected]
(202) 296-2296
http://www.arl.org/sparc
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org