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Public Access to Scientific Publications at Argonne National Laboratory

Public Access to Scientific Publications at Argonne National Laboratory. By Yvette Woell Argonne Research Library Manager Computing & Information Systems Division April 2013. A Variety of Approaches. Open Access Journals General Comments Argonne specific Community Based Distribution

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Public Access to Scientific Publications at Argonne National Laboratory

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  1. Public Access to Scientific Publications at Argonne National Laboratory By Yvette Woell Argonne Research Library Manager Computing & Information Systems Division April 2013

  2. A Variety of Approaches • Open Access Journals • General Comments • Argonne specific • Community Based Distribution • arXiv • SCOAP3 • Technical Reports • OSTI - SRC • Scanning Status at Argonne Argonne Research Library

  3. Open Access Journals – Why the Interest? • Paying Twice • Federally supported research • Free content • Free peer-review • Subscription Business Model • Library Budgets • Library buying power erodes and scientists have less access to scientific discoveries • Virtually impossible to purchase subscriptions in new fields Argonne Research Library

  4. Status of Open Access • Author Self Archiving • More than 60% of journals allow authors to self-archive peer-reviewed content • Hybrid and Fully Open Access Journals • 11% of world’s articles were being published in fully open access journals in 2011 • Pricing Variances • Commercial vs Society presses • Publisher justification for high costs • Costly Functions • Value of Rejection Argonne Research Library

  5. Open Access Journals – Argonne Specific • 11% of the world’s articles were being published in fully open-access journals • Argonne publishes ~ 1,500 journal articles/year • Argonne paid open access publishing fees for 8 articles in FY11 and 5 articles in FY12 (< 1%) • Types of Open Access Articles • Self Archiving • No Institutional Repository • Some divisions post preprints • Author pay to publish in OA journals • FY11 Average OA Fee = $1,294. • FY12 Average OA Fee = $3,860. • Pricing variances • FY12 OA fees reflect 4 commercial hybrid journals and 1 university hybrid journal Argonne Research Library

  6. Community Based Distribution • arXiv • Shared user model to support ~$800K operating cost • $10/article • Argonne support for past three years • Library coordinates and the cost is shared between library and two scientific divisions • SCOAP3 • HEP funding agencies and libraries support peer-review costs while publishers make journals freely available • No direct charge to authors Argonne Research Library

  7. Technical Reports • OSTI • Argonne shares links to full text • Scanning at Argonne • No plans for large scale scanning of Argonne produced technical reports Argonne Research Library

  8. Interesting Reading • Van Noorden, Richard. Open access: The true cost of science publishing. Nature. March 27, 2013. http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676 Argonne Research Library

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