Critical Introduction to Open Access Scholarly Outputs in Public Health NECOBELAC in association with Irish Institute of Public Health Dublin, 9th May 2012 Bill Hubbard Centre for Research Communications University of Nottingham

What is Open Access An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge. Budapest Open Access Initiative February 14, 2002, Budapest, Hungary http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

Why Open Access? Serials crisis Researcher need for access Public need for access Moral case Author’s benefits Institutional benefits Financial rationale Because we can!

What is Open and what is Access? Accessible for processing? Accessible by the public? Accessible by the world? Open to read? Open to use? Open to re-use?

What is Open Access Publications Data Grey literature Conference papers Theses Arts multimedia Teaching and Learning materials . . . what else?

What Open Access is not . . . A subversion of peer-review but academics may want to modify current models A replacement for publication but the world may want to move that way An invitation to plagiarism and it may actually become the norm to prevent plagiarism An attack on copyright but it does throw up some anomalies which lead creators and users to question copyright in its current form

How is Open Access achieved? Just sticking it on the web somewhere and why that’s not a good idea Repositories Subject based Institutionally based Government based Funder based Journals Open Access Journals Hybrid Journals

Repository Open Access Author writes paper pre-print Deposit in e-print repository Submits to journal Paper refereed Revised by author post-print Author submits final version published version Article published in a journal

Journal Open Access Author writes paper Submits to journal Paper refereed Revised by author Author submits final version Article published in a journal

Who wants Open Access? Authors like it Researchers like it Librarians like it Institutions like it Funders like it Research assessment workers like it Knowledge transfer workers like it Public likes it Publishers . . . are split

Public investment compared to publishers’ service 12 10 8 6 money - £ thousands 4 2 time - months Blue box - Public investment e.g. 2 year project, £300,000 £12,500 per month £300,000 over 24 months (and public access to results may be unavailable) Red box - Publisher’s investment e.g. charge of £1,800 £600 per month £1,800 over about 3 months (and expenses recouped through advance payment of subscriptions)

Where we are so far . . . Repositories Journals Funder policies 2186 worldwide, 14 Ireland - 207 UK-based Journals 7696 journals worldwide - plus hybrids Funder policies Publications: 68, Data: 27, OA Journals: 38 Institutional policies 145 policies reported, plus etheses Services and processes in place

Where we are so far . . . NIH in the States UK - Finch Committee UK - David Willetts recent speech European Commission - Neelie Kroes

Change is coming . . . Developments in the web and ICT alone will produce substantial change and may be the major mechanism for change to current practice . . . Financial incentives are changing across Europe 10 years timescale - what changes are coming down the track and what responses are needed?

Mendeley 1,319,469 People 112,949 Groups 30,529 Institutions 129,692,213 Papers

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Change is here . . . OA repositories and journals offer open access, but with control, authority, transparency and commercial clarity OA repositories and journals offer a route for healthcare information to be made available to the public, journalists, healthcare professionals and researchers

Questions? Bill Hubbard Head of Centre for Research Communications bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk