1. Commercial Publishers and Open Access Tony McSeán, Director of Library Relations ELAG Library Systems Seminar, Geneva June 2 nd, 2005

2. 2 Commercial & Learned Society Publishers

3. 3 Open Access Varieties  Open Access Publishing (eg BMJ, BioMed Central, PLoS)  Local repositories (institutional or personal)  Subject repositories

4. 4 OA Publishing (Author Pays) Not a moral issue Springer, Blackwells and others experimenting Different business models

5. 5 OA Publishing Finances Public Library of Science BioMed Central BMJ

6. 6 OA Publishing Finances – Why So Uncertain?  Unit pricing

7. 7 OA Publishing Finances – Why So Uncertain?  Unit pricing  Small number of papers

8. 8 OA Publishing Finances – Why So Uncertain?  Unit pricing  Small number of papers  Free ride for industry

9. 9 OA Publishing Finances – Why So Uncertain?  Unit pricing  Small number of papers  Free ride for industry  Doesn’t do the whole job

10. 10 OA Publishing – Practical Issues  Not high status journals

11. 11 OA Publishing – Practical Issues  Not high status journals  Bias towards publishing

12. 12 OA Publishing – Practical Issues  Not high status journals  Bias towards publishing  Not 100% merit-based

13. 13 IRs & Other Local Postings 100% in favour and supportive Institutional Repositories, departmental and personal web sites Full post-print copy posted immediately it appears on ScienceDirect

14. 14 Subject Repositories More difficult – issues over return on the money and effort invested Individual agreements to be struck Need to obey the law

15. 15 What Are Institutional Repositories For?  Personal pride in achievement

16. 16 What Are Institutional Repositories For?  Personal pride in achievement  Institutional pride, marketing, score- keeping

17. 17 What Are Institutional Repositories For?  Personal pride in achievement  Institutional pride, marketing, score- keeping  Management, administration, strategic planning, HR

18. 18 What Are Institutional Repositories For?  Personal pride in achievement  Institutional pride, marketing, score- keeping  Management, administration, strategic planning, HR  Efficiencies in proposal-writing

20. 20 Problems OA Needs to Solve  Doing the full job

21. 21 Problems OA Needs to Solve  Doing the full job  Author cooperation

22. 22 Problems OA Needs to Solve  Doing the full job  Author cooperation  Future-proofing access development

23. 23 Problems OA Needs to Solve  Doing the full job  Author cooperation  Future-proofing access development  Financial reality

24. 24 Problems OA Needs to Solve  Doing the full job  Author cooperation  Future-proofing access development  Financial reality  Coping with the volume of work

25. 25 StorageStorage  90 Terabytes of Data Storage  1.2 Petabytes of Tape Storage 1 Petabyte = 1,000 Terabytes = 1,000,000 Gigabytes = 1,000,000,000 Megabytes  90 Terabytes of Data Storage  1.2 Petabytes of Tape Storage 1 Petabyte = 1,000 Terabytes = 1,000,000 Gigabytes = 1,000,000,000 Megabytes

26. 26 Chilled Water Plant  Chiller capacity of 1400 tons  Serves 69 AC units and 3 IBM bi-polar mainframe CPU’s  Water is misted in the tower to blow off the heat  On average 20,000 gallons of water dissipated each day at peak  Dual water feeds  40,000 gallon underground water storage tank  Piping connections available to bring in portable chillers  We pump enough water to fill the average swimming pool every 8 minutes  Enough capacity to cool 2600 homes  Chiller capacity of 1400 tons  Serves 69 AC units and 3 IBM bi-polar mainframe CPU’s  Water is misted in the tower to blow off the heat  On average 20,000 gallons of water dissipated each day at peak  Dual water feeds  40,000 gallon underground water storage tank  Piping connections available to bring in portable chillers  We pump enough water to fill the average swimming pool every 8 minutes  Enough capacity to cool 2600 homes

27. 27 GeneratorsGenerators  6 Detroit Diesel generators rated at 790 kw each  6 – 8000 gallon underground diesel fuel storage tanks  Can run 8 – 10 days before refuelling  Ran 3 continuous days during the winter of 1998 due to an ice storm  The Building 1 Office can be transferred to generators in case of an extended outage  Our monthly utility bill is equivalent to that of a 60 story office building  6 Detroit Diesel generators rated at 790 kw each  6 – 8000 gallon underground diesel fuel storage tanks  Can run 8 – 10 days before refuelling  Ran 3 continuous days during the winter of 1998 due to an ice storm  The Building 1 Office can be transferred to generators in case of an extended outage  Our monthly utility bill is equivalent to that of a 60 story office building

28. 28 UPS and Batteries  6 UPS systems with 2 – 3 modules each for redundancy  2,040 wet cell batteries  Sized to provide 15 minutes of power at full load  Cell life is rated at 20 years  Tested quarterly  6 UPS systems with 2 – 3 modules each for redundancy  2,040 wet cell batteries  Sized to provide 15 minutes of power at full load  Cell life is rated at 20 years  Tested quarterly

29. 29 Elsevier’s Own Commitments to Access  Responsive policy making Patient information web sites, Price cut for post cancellation access, ILL policy rethink  Developing world access HINARI/AGORA, $1,000,000 anniversary book donation, Low-bandwidth option developed with MIT  Long-term access Elsevier archives, KB perpetual archive, Backfile digitisations,

30. 30 Thank You