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• Rebecca ParkerSwinburne University of Technology
• Open access and libraries
VALA meeting, University of Melbourne, 24 October 2012Image: Microsoft Clipart
• Pandora’s box?
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Myth 1:
Open access is simple
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Green
Institutional repositories
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Gold
Open access journals
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Hybrid
‘paid open access’
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SwinburneThe spectrum of openness
• From very open to very closed
HowOpenIsIt? © 2012 SPARC and PLoS. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/
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Myth 2:
Open access is free
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Someone always pays
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Currently …
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Someone always pays
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In an open access journalworld …
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Myth 3:
Open access is the default
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Source: Björk B.-C., Welling P., & Laakso M., et al. (2010). Open access to the scientific journal literature: situation 2009.PLoS ONE 5(6), e11273.
Open access availability by discipline (2009)
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But The Finch
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could
change
everything
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For researchers
cost?impact?
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For librarians
no green, only grey?
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For funders
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For government
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Springer, Sage, Wiley, Elsevier: $US 3000 (₤1840) per article
Taylor & Francis: $US 3250 (₤1725) per article
Lancet: ₤400 per page
Annual UKresearch output =
~60000 articles
₤10m = ~5435 articles₤38m = ~20652 articles
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A truth universally acknowledged
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Truth 1:
Open access is something we
can do
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Traditional library skills
are transferable
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Truth 2:
Open access is something we
are already doing
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Resistance to subscription
fees
Source: Sample, I. (2012, 24 April). Harvard University says it can’t afford journal publishers’ prices. The Guardian.
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Research Works
Act
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Research data
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Truth 3:
Open access is growing
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Out in the open
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Funder mandates
Research reporting
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SwinburneAsk notwhat open access
can do for you,but what
youcan do for
open access
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• Rebecca ParkerResearch Services Librarian
Swinburne [email protected]
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