Re: Growth rate of OA mandates?
- Original Message - From: Heather Morrison hgmor...@sfu.ca To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 4:11 AM Subject: Re: Growth rate of OA mandates? Comments (Heather): How libraries can contribute to improving access for all: many libraries are currently very involved in scholarly communication programs, providing education for scholars on author's rights (no one needs to sign away copyright in order to publish), managing institutional repositories, assisting with compliance with funding agency OA policies, and many also provide journal hosting and support services for faculty, and working to transition funding from the subscriptions system to open access, for example by joining the Compact on Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE): http://www.oacompact.org/compact/ A point is missing after managing institutional repositories. You should add AND explaining all the advantages and the necessity of a mandate. Comments (Heather) There isn't really ONE tipping point for OA, but rather many (Peter Suber wrote about this some time ago). There is no longer a need to advocate for OA as a good thing, for example; the arguments now relate to feasibility, not desirability. The feasibility of a mandate has been proven by all the universities which appear in ROARMAP http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ and the advantages are listed in the article Maximizing and measuring research impact through university and research-funder open access self-archiving mandates http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/16616/ Hélène Bosc Euroscience Member http://www.euroscience.org/ Convenor of the workgroup on scientific publishing http://www.euroscience.org/WGROUPS/SC_PUBLISHING/index.htm
Re: Growth rate of OA mandates?
of the entire full-text refereed research corpus Availability on every researcher's desktop, everywhere 24 hours a day Interlinking of all papers citations Fully searchable, navigable, retrievable, impact-rankable research papers For free, for all, forever Arif Jinha MA (can I say ABD candidate?) Globalization and International Development University of Ottawa - Original Message - From: Heather Morrison hgmor...@sfu.ca To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Growth rate of OA mandates? Since 2005, I have been tracking a number of data to determine a reasonable estimate of the extent and rate of growth of open access, on a quarterly basis. It is difficult to determine accurate macro- level data; this discussion and the work of other researchers is much appreciated. DOAJ has grown from 1,400 journals in 2005 to over 4,500 today. This is an imperfect measure, but sufficient to illustrate the dramatic growth in number of journals. Net DOAJ growth for 2009 was 723 titles, approximately 2 titles per day. About a third of DOAJ journals are searchable at article level; the number of articles available through such a search showed a 33% growth in 2009, to over 300,000 items. DOAJ does not include journals with free back issues, or gold OA articles in hybrid journals, so DOAJ numbers are an underestimate of gold OA. The number of documents available through the broadest cross- repository search engines grew from about 5 million in 2005 (based on OAIster statistics) to over 22 million in 2009 (based on BASE stats). These, too, are imperfect figures as not all items in repositories are full-text research articles, and there is likely some duplication, however even allowing for these imperfections the very strong growth rate is clear. The percentage of medical research literature published in the last 3 years and indexed in PubMed that is freely available is 20% (very similar to Bjork's figure). This is based on a search of PubMed, and does not distinguish between gold and green OA. For data showing 2009 growth, see: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Apn66wofwO7adF93d1lIS1VCVHhnZ0pTemVFX1hTT0Ehl=en The full series, including links to all open data versions and commentary, can be found at: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2006/08/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-series.html Heather Morrison The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
Re: Growth rate of OA mandates?
Your research sounds very interesting, Arif, and I look forward to seeing your results. Some comments below, on the significances question. On 15-Jan-10, at 1:34 PM, Arif Jinha wrote: Significances? It may be possible in the future to develop an index that would tell librarians at any institution in the world what portion and quantity of global annual research would be available to their researchers without subscription, what portion/quantity would be available with their subscriptions and concession programs, and perhaps even what access they have to older literature, or indeed what access they have as a portion of all journal research that exists. And of course, how they obtain access to what they need, and how they can contribute to improving access for all. Comments (Heather): Librarians at many institutions are already connecting people with open access, for example by including DOAJ in their journal lists and/ or catalogues, and by directing searchers to open access repositories. There is already many more titles (over 4,000 fully open access peer-reviewed journals) in DOAJ alone than in many library paid subscription packages. Compare, for example, the over 4,000 titles of DOAJ with the about 2,000 titles in the world's largest publisher package, Science Direct. (Not that the number of articles is necessarily comparable, not something I have investigated). The issue here is not so much building to a critical mass, but rather raising awareness. This is one of the reasons I write my Dramatic Growth of Open Access series. The growth of OA truly is amazing. I've always been a very optimistic OA advocate, but even I am continually floored by how fast the growth is. How libraries can contribute to improving access for all: many libraries are currently very involved in scholarly communication programs, providing education for scholars on author's rights (no one needs to sign away copyright in order to publish), managing institutional repositories, assisting with compliance with funding agency OA policies, and many also provide journal hosting and support services for faculty, and working to transition funding from the subscriptions system to open access, for example by joining the Compact on Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE): http://www.oacompact.org/compact/ Arif again: This could also indicate to policymakers and advocates where the tipping point may be in the future, in terms of the impact of the OA portion on the vision of a truly open global system of research communication, what decisions libraries can take with regard to managing the cost of subscriptions, for journals in terms of deciding on a revenue model, and for policymakers in terms of mandates. For instance, if in 2006 we have almost 20% of global literature accessible gratis, what kind of 'game-changer' might there be when that number approaches 50%? Is there a plateau to this trend? Comments (Heather) There isn't really ONE tipping point for OA, but rather many (Peter Suber wrote about this some time ago). There is no longer a need to advocate for OA as a good thing, for example; the arguments now relate to feasibility, not desirability. Similarly, the fact that there are profitable OA publishers and many successful OA publishers with a variety of business models has proven the point that OA is feasible from a business perspective, a tipping point that made one old argument simply go away. best, Heather Morrison, MLIS PhD Student, SFU School of Communication http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
Re: Growth rate of OA mandates?
That sounds like an excellent suggestion. So far as I have been able to establish no one is currently producing accurate data to show the growth of Gold OA over time. (http://poynder.blogspot.com/2010/01/open-access-counting-gold.html). Clearly it would be a good thing if a method were devised. Richard Poynder -Original Message- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Arif Jinha Sent: 06 January 2010 06:44 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Growth rate of OA mandates? Björk et al estimated for 2006, that between gold and green OA, 19.6% of global yearly output of research could be accessed freely. Can we devise a method of estimating/predicting the growth of the share of OA in annual global research output, from the growth of gold OA journals and OA mandates, both institutional and government? Arif Jinha - Original Message - From: Gavin Baker ga...@gavinbaker.com To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:32 PM Subject: Growth rate of OA mandates? I was interested to see, as noted by Heather Morrison recently, that the number of institutional and departmental mandates registered in ROARMAP more than doubled in 2009: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-d ec-31.html Funder mandates were no slouch either, with a 40% increase. Has anyone charted the number of mandates over time? From a slow start in 2003 to the explosion of 2009, I'm curious what the curve would look like... Also, any predictions for the future? I'd wager that 2010 looks like 2009, give or take 25%. Even in the worst case scenario, that'd still mean strong growth (compared to any year other than 2009). -- Gavin Baker http://www.gavinbaker.com/ ga...@gavinbaker.com You will eat cake. Frank O'Hara
Re: Growth rate of OA mandates?
Björk et al estimated for 2006, that between gold and green OA, 19.6% of global yearly output of research could be accessed freely. Can we devise a method of estimating/predicting the growth of the share of OA in annual global research output, from the growth of gold OA journals and OA mandates, both institutional and government? Arif Jinha - Original Message - From: Gavin Baker ga...@gavinbaker.com To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:32 PM Subject: Growth rate of OA mandates? I was interested to see, as noted by Heather Morrison recently, that the number of institutional and departmental mandates registered in ROARMAP more than doubled in 2009: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-dec-31.html Funder mandates were no slouch either, with a 40% increase. Has anyone charted the number of mandates over time? From a slow start in 2003 to the explosion of 2009, I'm curious what the curve would look like... Also, any predictions for the future? I'd wager that 2010 looks like 2009, give or take 25%. Even in the worst case scenario, that'd still mean strong growth (compared to any year other than 2009). -- Gavin Baker http://www.gavinbaker.com/ ga...@gavinbaker.com You will eat cake. Frank O'Hara
Re: Growth rate of OA mandates?
The mandate growth curves have been regularly provided by Alma Swan for some time now, at EOS: http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_6226/open-access-policies-for-universities-and-research-institutions?hlText=policie and OASIS: http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=144Itemid=338 On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:32 Gavin Baker wrote: I was interested to see, as noted by Heather Morrison recently, that the number of institutional and departmental mandates registered in ROARMAP more than doubled in 2009: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-dec-31.html Funder mandates were no slouch either, with a 40% increase. Has anyone charted the number of mandates over time? From a slow start in 2003 to the explosion of 2009, I'm curious what the curve would look like... Also, any predictions for the future? I'd wager that 2010 looks like 2009, give or take 25%. Even in the worst case scenario, that'd still mean strong growth (compared to any year other than 2009).
