1. The Current Landscape of Open Access Heather Joseph Executive Director, SPARC ALA Midwinter Meeting Seattle, WA January 26, 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.

4. www.arl.org/sparc 4 “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

5. Any Progress Towards This?

6. Infrastructure: Open Access Journals

7. 7 More than 8,600 OA Journals

10. What Does this Mean for Researchers and Scholars?

11. Broader reach/wider audience for their work Access to more, license to do more New ways to see who is using their work, and how they are using it A Positive New Scenario……

12. …Bringing With it New Opportunities, New Challenges

13. We Rely on Filters.

14. Scholars need help in figuring out what is “good.”

15. Evaluators need help in figuring out what is “good.”

16. We Need Better Filters.

17. Journal Impact Factors.

18. Impact Factors are a Journal Measure.

19. More Granular Measures for Articles and People Needed.

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

22. Article Level Metrics

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

27. From Mentions In the Media…

31. Tweets and Re-Tweets…

34. No Single Indicator Tells Whole Story.

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

38. As With Impact Factors, Alt Metrics and ALMS have shortcomings.

39. Not Yet Fully Understood.

41. Still Early Days. But Important Days.

42. Infrastructure: Open Access Repositories

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

44. Open Data

46. OER

48. Policy Framework.

49. Open Access Policies

51. Copyright

52. Open Licenses