1. Open Access: Maximizing the Impact of Research and Scholarship Heather Joseph Executive Director, SPARC February 21, 2013

2. Our Mission: Expand the distribution of the results of research and scholarship in a way that leverages digital networked technology, reduces financial pressures on libraries, and creates a more open system of scholarly communication.

3. What’s Happening In Scientific Communication and What Does it Mean for You?

4. 1. New technology.

5. The Internet.

6. New Venues to Share Work.

7. 2. Digital Deluge.

8. 20052006 2007 first quarter 2007 second quarter2007 third quarter 2007 fourth quarter 2008 first quarter A New Era in Medicine: Explosion in Scientific Discovery Second quarter 2008

10. We need to enable computers to help us keep up.

11. 3. Rising Costs, Shrinking Budgets

12. Price Barriers www.righttoresearch.org Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20050828210650/libraries.mit.edu/about/scholarly/expensive-titles.html

13. Library budgets journal prices

14. “ Scientific, technical, medical, legal and business journals – an $8.9 billion market - grew at 3% in 2010… ” STM Publishing News, http://www.stm- publishing.com/?p=722

15. $8.9 BILLION REVENUE/YEAR = www.excellentadventures.ca/NFL.gif

16. What Does this Mean for You?

17. www.arl.org/sparc 17 NEED GRAPHIC

18. www.arl.org/sparc 18 NEED GRAPHIC OF PAY-PER-VIEW Screen

19. www.arl.org/sparc 19 NEED GRAPHIC OF PAY-PER-VIEW Screen

20. What Do You Do?

21. It Isn’t Inter-Library Loan…

22. I ask the author for a copy.

23. I get it from a colleague at an institution with a subscription.

25. 25 “I’ve never had a witness confess to a crime during a hearing before…” - Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO)

26. We’re Used to Workarounds.

27. Need to Optimize the System for Scholars and the Academy.

29. www.arl.org/sparc 29 “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 – February 14, 2002

30. Open Access = Access + Reuse

31. So How do We Do This?

32. Infrastructure: Open Access Journals

36. Copyright

37. Open Licenses

39. 39 More than 8,600 OA Journals

42. Infrastructure: Open Access Repositories

43. www.arl.org/sparc 43 Open Access Repositories FEDERATION …exist alongside traditional publishing

44. Open Data

45. What Does this Mean for Researchers and Scholars?

46. Broader reach/wider audience for your work Access to more, license to do more New ways to see who is using your work, and how they are using it A (Largely) Positive New Scenario

47. The Digital Environment Lets Us Collect Information on More than Just Citations.

48. Article Level Metrics

52. Choose the Aspect of Impact you Want to Explore.

53. From Mentions In the Media…

56. Tweets and Re-Tweets…

59. No Single Indicator Tells Whole Story.

60. Opportunities to Paint a Fuller Picture by Aggregating Information.

62. Not Yet Fully Understood.

63. Still Early Days. But Important Days.

64. Disruptive Technologies, Opportunities for Meaningful Change.

65. Thank you! Heather Dalterio Joseph heather@arl.org (202) 296-2296 http://www.arl.org/sparc http://www.taxpayeraccess.org@arl.org http://www.arl.org/sparc http://www.taxpayeraccess.org