DEFF Online 2012 An Institutional Response to Open Access Simon Neilson Biomed Central

What does “Open Access” to scientific research mean? Universally available online without any barriers to access Creative Commons –Licensed to allow redistribution and reuse (as long as attribution is given) Permanently archived in multiple locations to ensure long term access –PubMed Central

Why Open Access? Enhances scholarly communication Research has more impact Increases the institutes and authors profile Readers get better access to funded research Improves visibility and impact of an institutions research No subscription barriers

Routes towards Open Access Gold OA Publishing in an open access journal: –Fully OA journals e.g. BioMed Central, Public Library of Science etc –Optional OA in traditional journals (now offered by most major publishers) Green OA Depositing articles in an OA repository: Subject repositories –PubMed Central –UK PubMed Central –ArXiV

Open Access in 2012 There are over 7800 open access journals in the DOAJ Over 1000 open access journals are indexed by ISI Open access to research is now mandatory in nearly 150 institutions and by over 52 funders A recent study found that 8.5% of peer reviewed articles are now published in a fully open access form* *Study of open access – Bo Christer Bjork, PLOS One

A busy Spring for Open Access “Academic Spring” has kept Open Access in the news David Willetts (UK Science Minister), voiced strong support for OA, and announced involvement of Jimmy Wales in policy development The Finch report found open access would lead to efficiency benefits for researchers and produce economic growth Wellcome Trust is planning to introduce sanctions to increase compliance with its OA policy Horizon €80bn EU research funding program to extend pilot OA program from FP7 to cover all projects World Bank announced strategic program to deliver open access to all its published output, other NGOs expected to follow

Papers published by major OA publishers

BioMed Central Pioneered open access publishing model Launched first open access journal in 2000 Now publishes >240 OA titles Over 125,000 peer-reviewed OA articles published More than 10 million article downloads per month Became part of Springer in 2008 Springer Open >95 titles Costs covered by 'article processing charge' (APC)

BioMed Central submissions

Benefits of OA Publishing to Authors Very high visibility Indexed widely Excellent peer review No barriers to dissemination Higher citations

Visibility for BioMed Central authors 20 million page views a month 4 million user sessions per month Over 1 million registered users Over 400,000 recipients to fortnightly BioMed Central newsletter 13,000 new registrants a month Springer platform (16,000 customers, 13 million users)

Visibility

Impact factors for some BioMed Central journals BMC Medicine6.04 BMC Public Health2.00 Breast Cancer Research5.25 Critical Care4.61 Environmental Health2.65 Genome Biology9.04 Human Resources for Health1.83 Implementation Science2.51 International Journal for Equity in Health3.10 Journal of Translational Medicine3.51 Malaria Journal3.47 Parasites & Vectors2.94 Respiratory Research3.36 Retrovirology6.47

BMC Open Access Publishing Program To support authors publishing the open access route Helps ensure the most widespread dissemination of the research Covers full APCs for all investigators or provides them with a reduced fee Reduce institutional expenditure Over 400 Members across 47 countries

Institutional Membership –Supporter Membership Institution pays a flat rate, and in return, authors get a 15% discount on their article-processing charge –Prepay Membership Institution pays in advance for each article published by one of their authors, at a discounted rate

Our Members

Nordic Members Norway –Norwegian Institute of Public Health –University of Bergen –Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation –University Library of Tromso Finland –University of Helsinki –Kuopio University and Kuopio University Hospital –National Public Health Institute KTL –University of Oulu –Tampere University and University Hospital –University of Eastern Finland Finland –Lund University –Karolinska University –Stockholm University –Chalmers University of Technology –University of Gothenburg –Uppsala University –Royal Institute of Technology –Nordic School of Public Health –SLU, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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Many institutions now have OA repositories in place Populating the repositories is often proving a challenge BioMed Central is delivering data to repositories using automated-article feeds Populating Institutional repositories

Institutional Repository (DSpace/Eprints etc.) Automated Deposit to IR via SWORD Manuscript SWORD Import SWORD Export Published articles from institution’s authors Published article Accepted and Published article

Open access journals covering all disciplines Creative Commons 53 journals already, 11 already have impact factors Planned addition of journals in next few years Administered by BioMed Central ?

Key facts: Open Access Inclusive Scope Easy Submission Rigorous Peer Review Clear and fast editorial process APC: £690

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Economics of paying for open access publishing The macro-economics are simple The micro-economics are more challenging

Macro-economics Open access publishing involves no new costs From the perspective of the research community as a whole, switching to an Open Access publishing model is affordable and desirable, as it –costs no more than the current model –delivers more (universal access and reuse)

Micro-economics Library budgets already stretched, paying the costs of the current publishing model through subscriptions Costs of traditional system are mostly invisible to authors, whereas article-processing charges are an obstacle for authors During a transitional period, moves towards open access may involve additional costs The common question...”who is paying for this”?

Summary Open Access publishing is here to stay and it is growing fast Many journals are moving to OA to take advantage of the benefits in terms of submissions, visibility and citation advantage Many authors are publishing in OA journals for similar reasons OA journals are becoming leaders in their field

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