International Science and Open Access Policy Landscape

International Science and Open Access Policy Landscape Open Access, Knowledge Sharing and Sustainable Scholarly Communication in Uganda Kampala, Uganda, May 21st 2013 Leslie Chan Bioline International Centre for Critical Development Studies University of Toronto Scarborough

Major trends in the past decade • Growth of OA • Public Policy • Business models • New scholarly communication practices and new metrics • Library as publisher

“By open access, we mean its immediate, free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose…” Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) http://www.soros.org/openaccess

Modes of Open Access User Rights Venues and Delivery Vehicles

Growth of OA

http://www.openaccessmap.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access

http://www.doaj.org

http://www.scielo.org/php/index.php

http://www.scielo.org.za/

Increased “Bibliodiversity” and Knowledge Diversity

The World of Journal Publishing According to Thomson’s ISI Science Citation Index Data from 2002 http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=205

http://www.leydesdorff.net/intcoll/intcoll.htm

Available at http://www.vosviewer.com/vosviewer.php?map=http://www.leydesdorff.net/intcoll/core42map.t xt&network=http://www.leydesdorff.net/intcoll/core42net.txt&n_lines=3000&label_size=1.35

http://www.bioline.org.br

http://www.bioline.org.br/cs

African Health Science http://www.bioline.org.br/hs

One Way Flow of Knowledge: From the North to the South OPEN ACCESS ? Multidirectional Flow of Knowledge: South-South Collaboration

From “Big” science to Networked science Knowledge for local problem solving

Open Access as Enabler of Participation and Knowledge Inclusion

Open Access as a matter of Public Policy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access

http://youtu.be/5FoYxzPZDuw

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/increasing-public-access-results-scientific-researchhttps://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/increasing-public-access-results-scientific-research

http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/FASTR/index.shtml

“The goal is for 60% of European publicly-funded research articles to be available under open access by 2016,” http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-790_en.htm?locale=en

http://sparceurope.org/analysis-of-funder-open-access-policies-around-the-world/http://sparceurope.org/analysis-of-funder-open-access-policies-around-the-world/

BusinessModels

Mega-Journal http://www.plosone.org/

http://www.elifesciences.org/the-journal/

https://peerj.com/

http://episciences.org/

http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/

http://www.openedition.org/

http://pressforward.org/

New Practices and New Metrics

The IF is not statistically sound, even if it were reproducible and reflected actual citations http://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Report/CitationStatistics.pdf

http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328

http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3748

http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

Conclusions • Leverage the various Open movement (open data, open educational resources, open science) • Align the values of research with appropriate incentives and recognition • Also need to align policies that are emerging from the top with initiatives arising from the bottom • Recognition of non-proprietary and collaborative research output from networked scholarship • Reward dissemination of research findings through multiple means – beyond the journal • Move Prestige to Open Access

http://www.openoasis.org http://www.bioline.org.br http://www.openaccessmap.org Thank You! chan@utsc.utoronto.ca

International Science and Open Access Policy Landscape