Creating Change in Scholarly Communications Heather Joseph Executive Director, SPARC September 21, 2009 TCAL, Austin, TX

SPARC’s Mission SPARC was formed by the library community specifically to be a catalyst for action, in order to stimulate new systems that: Expand dissemination of research results Reduce financial pressures on libraries Leverage the networked digital environment to better serve scholarship

The Issue  Technology lets us bring information to broader audience at little cost, and use in new ways.  Research is cumulative - only through use of findings is the value of research investment maximized.  But, research articles are still only available to fraction of the community of potential users, and what is available often has usage limitations  Call for new framework designed to allow research results to be more easily accessed and used

4 A Focus on Open Access “By open access, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose…” - The Budapest Open Access Initiative

5 Why Open Access Expedite, expand and strengthen our collective ability to leverage our investment in research Improve access and use of results of research to stimulate discovery and innovation. Accelerate the pace of research - create rich resource for scientists to use in new and innovative ways Ensure permanently accessible archive Contribute to the public good

6 So How Do We Move Forward? Educate community (faculty, administrators, students) on opportunities they have now that can contribute to meaningful change. Leveraging Choices in Publishing Venues Expanding Access via Repositories Understanding and Using Copyright Contributing to Local Policy Changes Contributing to National and International Policy Changes

The Numbers

Open Access Increases Impact Lawrence, Steve (2001). “Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact.” Nature, Vol. 411, No. 6837, p. 521

Metrics

Functionality

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12 What Can You Do? Ensure faculty are aware of quality OA publishing outlets Raise awareness of citation impact advantage Additional measures of quality and impact are also evolving – to faculties advantage OA enables new uses for articles – semantic web, ontologies, deep web links, etc. Understanding how to leverage copyright will help broaden use of articles

Open Access Repositories FEDERATION …exist alongside traditional publishing

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Global Network FEDERATION …exist alongside traditional publishing

16 What Can You Do? Help raise awareness of opportunities for faculty to archive articles (and other materials) Movement away from “silos” and towards networks (global). Proof of concept of deep demand when content is high quality Emphasis on services that serve core mission of scholarly and research community Again, critical for faculty to understand copyrights

17 “In an historic vote, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences moved to make the articles that its members public in scholarly journals freely available to anyone…..”

OA Central to Higher Education “The broad dissemination of the results of scholarly inquiry and discourse is essential for higher education to fulfill its long- standing commitment to the advancement and conveyance of knowledge. Indeed, it is mission critical.” --25 U.S. University Provosts, in an Open Letter to the Higher Education Community

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What Can You Do?  Educate Faculty on purpose of such policies; the wide dissemination of their institutions –and their - research and scholarship  Help raise awareness of the specifics of policies in use – (i.e. non-exclusive license to the institution for non- commercial uses.) and provide copyright grounding.  Help identify faculty champions, and provide forums for campus discussion  Facilitate access to “choice points” and “misconceptions” documents, and to connections to experts for advice.  Policies offering “opt-out clauses” increasing.

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NIH public access policy Effective April 7, 2008: SEC “The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law. ” - U.S. Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008

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25 What Can You Do? Expressly support both top-down mandates (funders, governments) and bottom-up policies (faculty votes). Combination strongly supports community recognition of OA as unprecedented opportunity. Competition emerging – OA as a competitive advantage. No longer “alternative” publishing model Support FRPAA Join the Alliance for Taxpayer Access

Thank you Heather Dalterio Joseph (202)