Open Access and Author-Owned Copyright

Amye Kenall Pion, LondonTim Meese University of Aston, UKPete Thompson University of York, UK

@i_Perception

http://i-perception.perceptionweb.com/

About the journal: i-Perception

Launched in 2010.

Costs covered by article-processing charge.

Publishes about 1,000 pages a year. That’s just over 40

papers and two sets of conference abstracts.

Uses same editorial board as subscription sister journal

Perception.

Barriers to Breaking into the Journal Game?

Cost Journal

Reputation

How can “OA” break into the journal game?

Lack of publisher support

Lack of sustainable

funding model

Lack of funding

Lack of demand

Vicious Circle

Subscribers cancel subscriptions and agree to put all funds toward existing OA publications.

Publishers and subscribers agree to switch together.

Universities and researchers lobby governments and research councils to support OA and practice open science. Eventually subscribers and publishers respond accordingly.

How do we break the cycle?

Actions You Can Take to Help Support Open Science

• Preferentially submit to/review for open access journals• Undermine the Impact Factor. • Talk to your librarians and department. Request that funds be specifically allocated to publishing

in OA journals if they are not already. • Ask conference organizers to make conference proceedings OA.• Talk to funding bodies about mandating that research produced from their funds be made OA.• At conferences, meet like-minded people to concoct new open projects, find out about existing

ones.• Post all your manuscripts in your institutional repository (the "green road" to open access); lobby

your department/lab/university to require it of everyone.• Do open science. Post your program code on the Web, freeze the code used for your papers by

putting a copy in your institutional repository, use electronic lab notebooks and other tools that post data online automatically as it comes in. Figshare is a good service for posting individual figures.

• If you are an editor of a journal, talk to your publisher about changing to OA. If they say no, ask them what else THEY can do to help promote open science.

• Join Twitter and follow OA organizations, journals, and activists, such as @openscience, @costofknowledge, @ceptional, @i_Perception, @michael_nielson.

• Spread the word.

is for convoluted . . .

and too restrictive BM

• Six different types of CC licenses (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND)

• All – Allow licensor to retain copyright while allowing others

to copy, distribute, and make some use of their work. – Allow licensor to be credited for work. – Work around the world---because built on copyright.

Natural state of copyright is with the author/creator

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• Protect their ability to be reimbursed for their work.

• Protect their ability to be reimbursed for their work.

• Right to legally defend your work.

• Protect their ability to be reimbursed for their work.

• Right to legally defend your work.

• Work with third parties and disseminate work widely.

• Protect their ability to be reimbursed for their work.

• Right to legally defend your work.

• Work with third parties and disseminate work widely.

So why not license these rights?

A publisher really only needs some of the rights included under copyright.

Copyright assignment

Exclusive license only

Exclusive license option

Non-exclusive license only

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“it is…hard to find a justification, other than convenience, for insisting on taking the author’s copyright”

Sally Morris in Learned Publisher

Protect publisher investmentPublisher policy

Protect integrity of articleNeeded for agreements with 3rd parties

Legal requirementUnable to publish without copyright agreement

Wide dissemination of articleEffective 3rd part permissions

Protect from copyright infringement

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Together we can change things