A strategic conversation with Tim Jewell and Thom Deardorff

What? “Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.”

Why?

For-Profit vs. Non-Profit Notes from Ben Marwick/Mike Rosenfeld’s slide set: For-profit publishers charge about 3x more than non-profit publishers, and their profit margins are among the highest of any industry. Yet we as researchers provide most of the value in their product by writing and reviewing papers. Many scholars believe that a critical mass of Open Access practices will help drive down journal subscription costs and shrink the profit margins of publishers. See also http://www.righttoresearch.org/learn/problem/index.shtml for a comparison of for-profit publishers and other industries For-Profit vs. Non-Profit

Responses Funder OA mandates University OA policies Foundations (Wellcome Trust, Gates, NSF) Governments (NIH, etc.) University OA policies Harvard University of California UW?

OA Goals and Opportunities Public Benefits Author benefits Funders: fairness speed progress Readers enrich education level playing field Readership Citations Reputation Career advancement

What can be made Open Access? Journal articles Theses and Dissertations Research reports and “gray literature” Research data E-books Textbooks and Open Educational Resources (“OERs”) Etc., etc.  

Green vs. Gold

Green Repository based PubMed Central (NIH) arXiv Institutional Trends

Gold Journal based Fees from $0 - $5,000 Trends Fully-OA (+/- 11,000) Public Library of Science “Hybrid” Fees from $0 - $5,000 Trends

Questions, thoughts, comments, ideas?

What is the UW doing about OA?

Early Developments 2007 UW Office of Research adopts and posts UW Statement of Position on Open Access to Research Results 2008 National Institutes of Health begins requiring funded research papers be made available to the public for free through PubMed Central. 2009 UW Faculty Senate approves legislation asking faculty to prepare for a future where academic works would be openly accessible.

OA at UW 2015 Faculty Senate passes a resolution to create an open access policy and infrastructure. Issues to be considered Enhance ResearchWorks Provost provide resources Develop an open access policy Vice Provost of Digital Initiatives/Dean of University Libraries coordinates the work.

Work to Date Betsy created OA Policy Steering Group and OA Initiative Advisory Group. Policy and background information developed. Faculty survey on ResearchWorks conducted. Review of ResearchWorks initiated. Campus groups consulted: Faculty Councils on Libraries and Research and Research Advisory Board. Report to Provost and Faculty Senate due March 28

The Policy Purpose – Make research and scholarship freely and widely available. Grant of Rights – Faculty give UW a non-exclusive right to make their articles available Scope and Waiver – Faculty can get a waiver for any article for any reason Implementation – The Provost or Provost’s Designate will manage the policy.

Policy Implementation Provost and Senate get report on March 28 Not clear what will happen next given the full agenda of the Faculty Senate Needs to be a wider discussion of OA Need more clarity on how the policy can be enabled in the UW environment. Fuller discussion needed on resources to support OA

Will this affect my work? All staff need to know the outlines of the policy and where to get more information. Most new work will be in support of ResearchWorks and policy interpretation. Number of articles submitted and workload will depend on the system we set up: faculty initiative or article citation “harvester”

Citation Harvester

Discussion Questions How will open access change scholarship? What is the best way to promote OA? What is the best way to communicate with staff about open access? How should we communicate with faculty?