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The Blame Game: Open Access and its Impact for Publishers, Librarians and Academics John Cox

The Blame Game: Open Access and its Impact for Publishers, Librarians and Academics John Cox. Roots of scholarly publishing. Modern scientific enquiry established in 16 th century The Royal Society: practical advances through experimentation

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The Blame Game: Open Access and its Impact for Publishers, Librarians and Academics John Cox

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  1. The Blame Game: Open Access and its Impact for Publishers, Librarians and AcademicsJohn Cox John Cox Associates Ltd

  2. Roots of scholarly publishing • Modern scientific enquiry established in 16th century • The Royal Society: practical advances through experimentation • Philosophical Transactions: the first “minutes of science” John Cox Associates Ltd

  3. The principles and practice of scholarly journal publishing • Four principles: - Registration - Evaluation and certification - Dessemination - Archiving • Embedded in scholarly practice John Cox Associates Ltd

  4. On to the Twentieth Century • Volume of information published was an issue in the 18th century • Journals became more specialised • Disciplines comparmentalised and professionalised John Cox Associates Ltd

  5. Technology and rising expectations • Speed of delivery • Accessibility anywhere, any time • Functionality gains: search, locate & link • Usage data as selection criteria • Complete journal programmes accessible, e.g. the “Big Deal” • 75% all journals online: 83% in STM • Consortia give libraries purchasing clout John Cox Associates Ltd

  6. Open Access: a rational response? • The Open Access concept: information freely available to the reader • Removes subscription model • Financed by author or university or funding agency John Cox Associates Ltd

  7. Open Access: two forms • Open Access journals - Access free to reader worldwide - Author or institution pays publication fee on acceptance - Institutional membership covers publication by its authors • Open Archives - Personal web page - Institutional repository - Subject-based repository John Cox Associates Ltd

  8. Open Access journals • Over 1,000 OA journals • Only 14% based on author pays – - less than 0.25% of all articles published - most from two publishers • 86% grant-funded or free online versions of subscription journals John Cox Associates Ltd

  9. O A Journals: impact on scholarly infrastructure • 25% subscriptions non-academic • Open Access financed from authors – almost all in academia • Undermines learned societies • Information infrastructure still needed: abstracting/indexing, review journals, links etc. John Cox Associates Ltd

  10. Do authors really want or care about O A journals? • Reason to publish: communicate to peers • Few authors know about it • Most feel online access improved • RAE drives papers to existing high impact journals • Little understanding of publishers’ value or costs • Funding structures not simple or easy to manage John Cox Associates Ltd

  11. Open Access journals and Impact Factors • O A journals at lower end of citation rankings • Open Access and subscription-based journals indistinguishable • But peak for citations sooner for Open Access • Online accessibility is the key John Cox Associates Ltd

  12. Open Archives • Most publishers allow authors to post published papers to subject-based or institutional archive • Over 400 university repositories worldwide John Cox Associates Ltd

  13. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose • Authors want to communicate with their peers speedily in high Impact Factor journals with good peer review • The journal is a brand of value • The real challenge is to publishers to re-engineer their processes John Cox Associates Ltd

  14. The Blame Game: Open Access and its Impact for Publishers, Librarians and Academics John Cox John Cox Associates Ltd www.johncoxassociates.com John.E.Cox@btinternet.com John Cox Associates Ltd

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