Committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource

1. Committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource Donna Okubo, Institutional Relations Manager

2. Cheaper, Faster, Quicker • Overview of Open Access • Open Access: What's New • Corporate Sector and Open Access • Adding Value to the Research Team!

3. Definition: Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) • “ free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. . . “

4. Open Access Movement

5. Policy Initiatives at a Federal Level • NIH Policy: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ • CURES Act: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-06.htm • American Innovation and Competitiveness Act of 2006 http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23575/requires

6. The Federal Research Public Access Act 2006

7. Wellcome Trust • New policy introduced Oct 1, 2005 • Provides additional funds for authors whose work is published in OA journals • Papers must be deposited in PMC • Must be publicly accessible within 6 months

8. The Ellison Medical Foundation Specifically desires that all research results shall be made available to the public as promptly as possible in keeping with the foundation's commitment to free and open publication of research results to both validate findings and to allow other scientists to further advance work in the field. The foundation recognizes and endorses the obligation of awardee institutions to take steps to bring the practical applications of its research forward to public use and benefit…

9. Publisher Initiatives - Hybrids • Blackwell • 665 Societies, 805 journals • Online Open (80 journals) • Oxford University Press • 180 journals (2/3 with societies) • Nucleic Acids Research fully OA from 2005 • Oxford Open (42 journals and rising) • Springer • Open Choice (all 1200+ journals) • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Open Access Option

10. The Landscape is Constantly Changing

11. What is in it for Us! The Corporate Sector

12. Benefits of Open Access Journals • Cheaper • Faster • Quicker

13. Your Companies Marketing: Goals • Promote Company and Product: Be the First! • Market Product with a Broad Reach as Cheap as Possible • Positive Company Image

15. OA sets users free to make less common uses --without asking permission and without paying a fee. • The World Health Organization Puts PLoS Article on CD for DistributionA neglected diseases article from PLoS Medicine, "Rapid-Impact Interventions: How a Policy of Integrated Control for Africa’s Neglected Tropical Diseases Could Benefit the Poor" is being put on a CD that the World Health Organization (WHO) is distributing free of charge. The target audience for the CD includes Ministries of Health, district and hospital managers; management, medical, nursing and paramedical training institutions; and non-governmental organizations in developing countries, particularly where Internet access remains limited or non-existent.

17. Adding Value to the Research Team

18. “As data mining research progresses and as we learn more about the nature and the structure of scientific knowledge, we will be able to extract more complex and subtle information…”

21. Data Mining is a Tough Job!

22. Open Access Journals Makes it Easy!

25. Contributing to your Companies Team: You are Cheaper, Faster, Quicker!

26. Open Access Journals

27. PLoS Biology

28. PLoS Medicine

29. PLoS Computational Biology

30. PLoS Genetics

31. PLoS Pathogens

32. PLoS Clinical Trials

34. Reference • Open Access Overview – Peter Suber • PLoS • Directory of Open Access Journals • Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition SPARC • Federal Research Public Access Act 2006 • Donna Okubo, dokubo@plos.org