Open access to scientific research: where are we and where are we going? Facts and figures on the occasion of the 2010 Open Access Week (October 18-24)

[1] For more details on the event, see http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/welcome-to-open-access-week. SPARC website is available at http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.shtml.

[2] Berlin Declaration, http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

[3] Guédon, J.C., In Oldenburg’s Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing, 2001, available at http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/mmproceedings/138guedon.shtml.

[4] See http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/welcome-to-open-access-week.

[5] Giglia, E. Open Access in the biomedical field: a unique opportunity for researchers (and research itself), Europa Medicophysica 2007 June; 43(2):203-13, available at http://www.minervamedica.it/en/journals/europa-medicophysica/article.php?cod=R33Y2007N02A0203.

[6] Guédon, JC The “green” and the “gold” road to Open Access: the case for mixing and matching, Serials Review, 2004, 30(4), 315-328, available at http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003039/01/science.pdf. Guédon, JC, Mixing and matching the green and the gold road - Take two, Serials review, March 2008, 34 (1), pp. 41-51, available at http://depts.washington.edu/uwbri/PDF%20Files/green%20and%20gold%20mixing%20and%20matching%20take%202.pdf

[7] Morrison, H. Dramatic Growth of Open Access Spreadsheets, available at http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/dgoa

[8] Gentil-Beccot, A., et al. Citing and reading behaviours in High-Energy Physics. How a community stopped worrying about journals and learned to love repositories, available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.5418

[9] Shieber, S. What percentage of open-access journals charge publication fees?, Blog post, May 29th, 2009available at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/05/29/what-percentage-of-open-access-journals-charge-publication-fees/.

[10] Harnad, S. Blog post, Sept. 15, 2009. http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/search/cope/P2.html

[11] Morrison, H. Dramatic Growth of Open Access Spreadsheets, available at http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/dgoa.

[12] ARL – Association of Research Libraries Statistics 2007-2008, Serials expenditures 1986-2008, page 15, available at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/arlstat08.pdf

[13] Suber, P. Thinking about prestige, quality, and open access, SOAN Newsletter, September 2008 available at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-08.htm.

[14] Giglia, E. The Impact Factor of Open Access journals: data and trends, ELPUB 2010 Conference proceedings, available at http://dhanken.shh.fi/dspace/bitstream/10227/599/72/2giglia.pdf.

[15] Suber, P. Thinking about prestige, quality, and open access, SOAN Newsletter, September 2008 available at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-08.htm.

[16] Björk, B.C. et al. 2010 Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009. PLoS ONE 5(6): e11273, available at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0011273.

[17] The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies (Op-Cit project), available at http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html. See also Wagner, AB. Open Access Citation Advantage: An Annotated Bibliography. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 60. Winter 2010, available at http://www.istl.org/10-winter/article2.html.

[18] Swan, A. The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date. Technical Report, 2010, available at http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/.

[19] Bollen J et al. A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures. PLoS ONE 4 (6), 2009, e6022, available at http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006022

[20] Bollen J et al. Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science. PLoS ONE 4(3), 2009 : e4803, available at http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0004803.

[21] Article level metrics at PLoS, available at http://www.plosone.org/static/almInfo.action.

[22] See the papers appeared in The Scientist in August, 2010 (required a free registration to access): Breakthroughs from the second tier, available at http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/57600/; Akts, J. I hate your paper, available at http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/57601/; Green, S. Peer review and the age of aquarius, available at http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/57580/; and the Blog post Peer pressure? (August , available at http://blog.the-scientist.com/2010/08/09/peer-pressure/.

[23] See Wikipedia, Scientific misconduct, available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_misconduct.

[24] See an example taken from BMC Cancer, available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/10/154/prepub; see also http://www.atmospheric-chemistry-and-physics.net/.

[25] See respectively http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html; http://www.oecd.org/document/0,2340,en_2649_34487_25998799_1_1_1_1,00.html; http://publicaccess.nih.gov/; http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/ScC_Guidelines_Open_Access_revised_Dec07_FINAL.pdf.

[26] See at least Council conclusions on Scientific information in the digital age, Nov. 2007 available at http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/intm/97236.pdf and COM 2007 (56), Scientific information in the digital age: access, dissemination and preservation, available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2007:0056:FIN:EN:PDF.

[27] Houghton, J. et al. Economic implications of alternative publishing models: exploring the costs and benefits, available at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/economicpublishingmodelsfinalreport.aspx. The report has been heavily attacked by publishers. Here are two Houghton’s responses: (2010) http://www.cfses.com/EI-ASPM/Comments-on-Hall%28Houghton&Oppenheim%29.pdf and (2009) http://www.cfses.com/EI-ASPM/JISC%20EI-ASPM%20Report%20%28Addendum%20April%2009%29.pdf.

[28] Björk, B-C. A model of scientific communication as a global distributed information

system, Information Research, 2007, 12(2) paper 307. Available at http://informationr.net/ir/12-2/paper307.html.

[29] Houghton, J. Economic implications of alternative publishing models, ELPUB 2009 Conference Proceedings, available at http://conferences.aepic.it/index.php/elpub/elpub2009/paper/view/74

[30] See respectively Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation, available at http://www.surffoundation.nl/en/publicaties/Pages/CostsandBenefitsofOpenAccessPublicationlTheDutchSituation.aspx; and Costs and Benefits of Alternative Publishing Models: Denmark, available at http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Admin/Public/DWSDownload.aspx?File=%2fFiles%2fFiler%2fdownloads%2fDK_Costs_and_benefits_of_alternative_publishing_models.pdf.

[31] Swan, A. Modelling Scholarly Communication Options: Costs and benefits for universities. Project Report, 2010, available at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2010/howtoopenaccess.aspx.

[32] Houghton, J. et al. Economic and Social Return on Investment in Open Archiving Federally Funded Research Outputs, Report, 2010, available at http://www.cfses.com/FRPAA/.