Encouraging Scholarly Communication OSU Oregon Library Association Conference, April 6, 2006 ******************************* Michael Boock Head of Technical Services Oregon State University Libraries 121 The Valley Library Corvallis, OR Fax: ******************************

What I’ll Cover Context of scholarly communication crisis Scholarly Communication Task Force at OSU Task Force charge and accomplishments Future work

2004 Faculty Senate Library Committee Report to OSU Faculty Senate

Scholarly Communication Task Force creation Scholarly Communication Task Force membership

Scholarly Communication Task Force Charge: 1. Determine current practices that impede an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication, citing data where necessary to substantiate the findings; 2. Determine actions that OSU faculty members, as authors, readers, reviewers, editors, society members, advisory board members and faculty members, who are dependent on scholarly communication for professional advancement, can take to contribute to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication; 3. Determine a few of these actions that are likely to have the greatest positive impact towards creation of an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication; 4. Propose a framework for communicating these findings to the OSU faculty.

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Determine current practices that impede an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication 1. the increasing cost of journals; 2. the unsecured archival access to electronic publications 3. the undue weight given to the "high impact" factor in publishing as well as promotion and tenure processes; and 4. the transfer (by author) of ownership, or copyright, of material published in journals.

Actions that faculty members can take to improve the sustainability and openness of scholarly communication 1. faculty with decision-making authority for professional societies and journals should maintain control of journal pricing and access policies 2. faculty as authors should choose outlets for their publications with an awareness of fair pricing and open access 3. faculty as participants in the peer review system should support non-profit society publications and open access publications and should refuse to review for high-priced commercial journals.

Editors, Editorial Board Advisors and Society Executive Committee Members Specific actions for OSU Faculty as Editors, Editorial Board Advisors and Society Executive Committee Members  Step down from post  Encourage societies to continue to self-publish or publish via open access or work with publishers with reasonable pricing and copyright practices  Encourage publishers to price fairly  Encourage publishers and societies to make articles freely available soon after they are published  Encourage publishers to allow authors to retain copyright and self-archive

Specific actions for OSU Faculty as Authors and Reviewers  Publish in journals that are reasonably priced, that allow authors to retain copyright, etc.  Choose open access publications  Retain copyright  Review for non-profit scholarly society and open access journals, refuse to review for high-priced commercial publishers

Specific actions for P & T committees and departments  Consider publication models in which scholarship is broadly circulated

Framework for communicating findings to OSU Faculty Education of faculty members regarding the library's cost of journals, impact factors and accessibility of journals within their field through the expansion of unit-specific reviews

Horticulture Publications for years cost impact factor publisher Plant Physiol $ 2, American Society of Plant Biologists Plant Cell Rep $ 1, Springer Verlag Plant J $ 3, Blackwell Publishing Crop Sci $ American Society of Agronomy J. Hered $ Oxford University Press Phytopathology $ American Phytopathological Society Field Crops Research $ 1, Elsevier Limited Euphytica $ 2, Springer Verlag

Other examples: ppendices.pdf ppendices.pdf

Framework for communicating findings to OSU Faculty Education of OSU faculty serving as editors and society officers

Framework for communicating findings to OSU Faculty Publication of a series of articles in OSU This Week. Articles include: 1. Introductory article 2. Cost of journals 3. Impact factors 4. Open access 5. OSU Institutional Repository/Copyright

Framework for communicating findings to OSU Faculty Report her/tfose/final_report/report.html her/tfose/final_report/report.html Senate Resolution supporting open and sustainable access /06d.html /06d.html

Framework for communicating findings to OSU Faculty Continuation of the Scholarly Communication Task Force work by Faculty Senate Library Committee

Questions? Michael Boock