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First results of the SOAP Project Open Access facts:

What publishers offer, What researchers want

Berlin8 Open Access Conference – Beijing – October 26th, 2010 XXXth Charleston Conference – Charleston – November 5th, 2010

UNICA seminar – Lisbon – November 9th, 2010 LondonOnline – London – November 29th, 2010

Suenje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Bettina Goerner, Robert Darby, Jenni Hyppoelae,

Peter Igo-Kemenes, Deborah Kahn, Simon Lambert, Anja Lengenfelder, Chris Leonard, Salvatore Mele, Panayiota Polydoratou, David Ross,

Sergio Ruiz-Perez, Ralf Schimmer, Mark Swaisland and Wim van der Stelt

BMC, CERN, MPDL, SAGE, Springer and STFC

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Outline

•  About the project •  Highlights from a study of OA journals today •  Results from a large-scale survey of researchers

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Outline

•  About the project •  Highlights from a study of OA journals today •  Results from a large-scale survey

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SOAP Study of Open Access Publishing

•  Funded by the European Commission •  Framework Program 7 – Science and Society •  Scheduled to run from March 2009 to February 2011 •  Compare and contrast supply/demand for OA publishing •  Publishers, Libraries, Funding Agencies

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Outline

•  About the project •  Highlights from a study of OA journals today •  Results from a large-scale survey

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A study of OA journals today

•  Assess the supply of OA publishing outlets today •  Methodology (snapshot as of mid 2009)

–  Existing directories/databases DOAJ/SCOPUS, ISI, EZB, SCImago –  Trawl through thousands of web pages

•  Answer key questions –  How many articles, journals, publishers? –  In which discipline, with which license? –  Where does the money come from? –  …

•  Some highlights in the following pages •  Full results at http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0506

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How many OA articles/journals?

•  English language journals only •  90% of publishers <100 articles/year and 1/3 of total •  10% of publishers publish 2/3 of the total •  14 “large publishers”: -  40K articles/year in 616 journals, 30% of the total -  6 commercial, 6 no-profit, 2 N/A

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How many? About 8-10% !

•  English language journals only •  90% of publishers <100 articles/year and 1/3 of total •  10% of publishers publish 2/3 of the total •  14 “large publishers”: -  40K articles/year in 616 journals, 30% of the total -  6 commercial, 6 no-profit, 2 N/A

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About 8-10% of articles/year is published in Open Access

and hybrid Open Access journals

The 14 “large” publishers >1000 articles or >50 journals

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About what?

•  2/3 of journals in STM; 1/3 in SSH •  3/4 of articles in STM; 1/4 in SSH •  “Large publisher” almost exclusively STM

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Licensing practices

•  1/2 of “Large” publishers use Creative Commons

•  82% CC-by, 18% CC-by-nc •  72% of journals, 71% of articles

•  “Other” publishers •  73% have license information on their web pages •  21% use some CC version •  10% state “authors retains copyright”

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Presence of income sources NB – No information on income amount

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Outline

•  About the project •  Highlights from a study of OA journals today •  Results from a large-scale survey

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•  23 Questions •  Analysis of the first 3 months of data

•  Dissemination through: - SOAP partners - Publishers mailing lists - Library and Open Access mailing lists

•  Estimate dissemination to >1.5 million people

•  54’000 answers and counting

•  Data will be open in January-February 2011

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The SOAP survey

Are you involved in research?

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How many articles have you published ?

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38’358

Focus on: published researchers

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Who ? Beliefs Actions

Preliminary results

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Who ? - Demographics

Beliefs - Likes OA? Why? Why not?

Actions - Publishes OA? Why not? - Who pays? How? How easy?

Preliminary results

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Who ? Beliefs Actions

Preliminary results

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Demographics

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Distribution by country

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Distribution by disciplines

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Who ? Beliefs Actions

Preliminary results

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No large differences according to seniority, number of articles Small country-to-country variations

Would OA journals be beneficial for your field?

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Why?

>22’000 answers, 1/2 million words

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Why yes? (n=6984)

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0% 10% 20% 30% 40%

Scientific community benefit

Public good

Financial issues

Accessibility

Individual benefit

Other

Why not? (n=1611)

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19%

17%

14%

11%

11%

10%

7%

6%

4%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%

Low quality

No need

Presence and amount of fees

Other

Fairness/vanity press

Unsustainable for publication and society

Green oa enough

No/bad peer-review

Profit driven

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Would OA journals be beneficial for your field?

By field

Would OA journals be beneficial for your field?

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Yes

Beliefs about OA – positive

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1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree

Beliefs about OA – neutral

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1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree

Beliefs about OA – negative

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1 Strongly agree; 2 Neutral; 3 Disagree; 4 Strongly disagree

Who ? Beliefs Actions

Preliminary results

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How many OA articles have you published in the last 5 years?

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Was there a reason not to publish OA?

42% gave a reason; >4000 answers; 60’000 words

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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

Funding

Journal performance

Other

Accessibility

Ignorence/unawarness

Habits

"Next time"

Which fee did you pay for your last OA article?

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How was this fee covered?

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How was this fee covered?

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By field

How was this fee covered? Included in research funds

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How was this fee covered? I paid myself

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How was this fee covered?

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By country

How was this fee covered? Included in research funds

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How was this fee covered? My institution paid

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How easy was it to obtain funds?

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How easy was it to obtain funds?

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How easy was it to obtain funds?

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How easy was it to obtain funds?

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Conclusions

•  Strive to provide facts on which to base decisions (EC, publishers, libraries, funding agencies)

• Key findings so far: - 90% scientists think OA journals are a good thing - BUT only 8-10% of articles is in OA journals - main barriers are lack of funds (40%) and journal quality/prestige (30%)

•  Further analysis of the data ongoing •  Data to be OPEN in January/February

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Thank you! Project team: info@project-soap.eu

Co-ordinator: Salvatore.Mele@cern.ch Website: http://soap-fp7.eu

Final results to be presented in

Berlin, January 13th, 2011 http://soap-fp7.eu/soap-symposium

Including hands-on session on using the data