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About Scholarly Communication
• Current System (for 350 years)• Print Paradigm
• Problems• Increased sum of human knowledge
• The Journals Crisis• The Internet
• Disintermediation
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Journal Prices
From 2000 to 2004, the increase in median price for 12 journal publishers rose between 27% (Cambridge U.P.) and 94% (Sage).
Library and Information Statistics Unit (Loughbrough University)
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Journal Prices
Average prices of peer-reviewed titles increased by an annual average of 6.5% from 2009 to 2011.
2010 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Society Journals: Society Journal Pricing Trends and Industry Overview
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Institutional Annual Subscription USA Canada & Mexico UK Europe (Euro zone)
Rest of World
Online Only $30,860 $30,860 £ 15,747 €19,910 $30,860
Print + Online $35,489 $35,993 £ 18,557 €23,463 $36,245
Print Only $30,860 $31,364 £ 16,133 €20,398 $31,616
Journal of Comp. Neurology
I.F. = 3.808
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1963
• Articles freely given by authors for publication
• Published by many small scholarly societies
• Not for profit
2013
• Articles freely given by authors for publication
• Published by a very few commercial publishers
• Research generated at public expense is viewed as a commercially exploitable commodity
The Changed Character of Scholarly Communication
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Big Publishers are doing well: Profits posted for 2012.
• Elsevier: Profit: £724 Million (36% of £2 Bn. revenue)• Springer: Profit: £294 Million (34% of £0.8 Bn.)• John Wiley: Profit: £106 Million (42% of £0.25 Bn.)• Informa Plc: Profit: £47 Million (32% of £0.14 Bn.)
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Enter Open Access
• Free, immediate, permanent access to research for use, downloading and distribution.
• 2 Approaches• Free, online journals
(published by small scholarly societies)
• Institutional Repositories
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Copyright
• Authors of preprints hold the copyright to them
Publisher OA Policies on Copyrighthttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
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Open Access Benefits
• Promotion of institutions, research groups.• Cross-fertilization between disciplines• Access for non-academic users ( e.g. policy makers )• Citation advantage
Repository Birthdays
NUIM, May 2002
Trinity, March 2006
DCU, June 2006
Waterford IT, Feb 2007
UCD, August 2007
DIT, May 2008
U.Limerick, May 2008
RCSI, Nov 2008
HRB, Dec 2008
HSE, Dec 2008
UCC, March 2009
NDLR, Jan 2010
DCU, March 2010
U. Ulster, Nov 2010
Marine Institute, March 2011
Dublin Bus. Sch., March 2012
NUIG, July 2012
Teagasc, August 2012
Repository Birth Dates in Ireland
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Software
Dspace (9) TCD, UL, UCC, NDLR, DBS, Marine Inst., NUIG, Teagasc, HSE
Fedora (1) UCD
Eprints (5) Maynooth, WIT, DCU, HRB, DKIT,
Digital Commons
(2)DIT, RCSI
• Emails• Information Sessions• Flyers• Video• Institutional Website – RSS Feeds• Twitter • Data entry• Statistics
Promotion Efforts
Promotion Efforts
The Big Challenge
• Researchers are:– Comfortable with tried and tested forms of
scholarly communication– They already have their ‘social’ networks
Current Focus• Working closely with the Research
Office– Gathering of references from institute staff
for inclusion in ‘Research Matters’– Creation of an easy to use deposit form on
institutional website– Institutional Open Access Mandate
Promotion Efforts
Funder Mandates OA Policies on Copyrighthttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
Funder Mandates
Funder Mandates
IRELAND• HRB (position statement)• SFI • HEA• Irish Research Council
EUROPE• European Commission• European Research Council• CERN
• Portal for all Irish Repositories• Standardised Metadata
(Qualified Dublin Core)• Only harvests Open Access and
Peer-Reviewed articles
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National Aggregator: RIAN
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European Aggregator: Open Aire
“an electronic infrastructure and supporting mechanisms for the identification, deposition, access, and monitoring of FP7 and ERC funded articles”