First results of the SOAP project. Open access publishing in 2010

The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project has compiled data on the present offer for open access publishing in online peer-reviewed journals. Starting from the Directory of Open Access Journals, several sources of data are considered, including inspection of journal web site and direct inquiries within the publishing industry. Several results are derived and discussed, together with their correlations: the number of open access journals and articles; their subject area; the starting date of open access journals; the size and business models of open access publishers; the licensing models; the presence of an impact factor; the uptake of hybrid open access.Comment: Submitted to PLoS ON

Highlights from the SOAP project survey. What Scientists Think about Open Access Publishing

The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project has run a large-scale survey of the attitudes of researchers on, and the experiences with, open access publishing. Around forty thousands answers were collected across disciplines and around the world, showing an overwhelming support for the idea of open access, while highlighting funding and (perceived) quality as the main barriers to publishing in open access journals. This article serves as an introduction to the survey and presents this and other highlights from a preliminary analysis of the survey responses. To allow a maximal re-use of the information collected by this survey, the data are hereby released under a CC0 waiver, so to allow libraries, publishers, funding agencies and academics to further analyse risks and opportunities, drivers and barriers, in the transition to open access publishing.Comment: Data manual available at http://bit.ly/gI8nct Compressed CSV data file available at http://bit.ly/gSmm71 Alternative data formats: CSV http://bit.ly/ejuvKO XLS http://bit.ly/e6gE7o XLSX http://bit.ly/gTjyv

Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs

This archival page includes documents and recordings related to the international symposium, “Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs,” held in Lawrence, Kansas, on Thursday and Friday, November 17-18. The presenters were a group of 18 internationally respected scholars, publishers, university librarians, and executives from foundations and organizations, who were asked to participate in a discussion about current models available for achieving an expansive, inclusive, and balanced worldwide open publishing ecosystem. The symposium was co-sponsored by the University of Kansas Libraries, Open Access Network (a project of K|N Consultants), Allen Press, SPARC, and ARL. The materials included here are the symposium schedule, recordings of Parts 1 and 2 of the Nov. 17 livestream, a transcript of the livestream, and team proposals originating from the Nov. 18 morning session.This symposium was sponsored by the University of Kansas Libraries, Open Access Network (a project of K|N Consultants), Allen Press, and SPARC

Maximum Consequence: The Rationality behind Open Access Gold

The discourse on Open Access is very often dominated by pleas for the so-called green road to Open Access, i.e. secondary publishing in institutional repositories or other document servers. This approach, to be sure, is very pragmatic; but it very often ends in a narrow perspective and can lead to unnecessarily defensive and limiting positions. The paper will take a programmatic stance and argue in favour of a much broader notion of Open Access and on the necessity and inevitability of choosing the golden road to open access, i.e. direct open access publishing and shifting the cost from subscriptions and the reader side to publication charges and the author side

Open Access Policy White Paper der Max Planck Gesellschaft für eine grundlegende Änderung des bestehenden Publikationssystems. 10 Fragen von Bruno Bauer an Ralf Schimmer, Stellvertretender Leiter der Max Planck Digital Library

Ralf Schimmer answers questions about Max Planck Society’s positioning on open access systems and also speaks about motives and date of the release of its keynote paper "Disrupting the subscription journals´ business model for the necessary largescale transformation to open access: A Max Planck Digital Library Open Access Policy White Paper". The interview also reflects the different kinds and funding of open access systems as well as the question about future tasks of libraries, if open access systems will succeed the classic pattern of journals which rely on subscriptions und licences

OA2020 - Initiative for the large-scale transformation to open access

In March 2016, the international initiative Open Access 2020 (OA2020, www.oa2020.org) was launched. This initiative for the large-scale transformation of the scholarly publishing system from a subscription to an open access business model emerged from the Berlin 12 Open Access Conference (December 2015, Berlin, www.berlin12.org) with some hundred attendees from 19 countries. OA2020 aims at making Open Access the default in scholarly publishing.Presentation presented by Dr Ralf Schimmer to University of Pretoria staff members in the Merensky 2 auditorium on 10 May 2018.https://oa2020.org/be-informed/#whyeo201

OA2020: Initiative for the Large-Scale Transformation to Open Access

In March 2016, the international initiative Open Access 2020 (OA2020, www.oa2020.org) was launched. This initiative for the large-scale transformation of the scholarly publishing system from a subscription to an open access business model emerged from the Berlin 12 Open Access Conference (December 2015, Berlin, www.berlin12.org) with some hundred attendees from 19 countries. OA2020 aims at making Open Access the default in scholarly publishing.Presentation presented by Dr Ralf Schimmer to University of Pretoria staff members in the Merensky 2 auditorium on 10 May 2018.https://oa2020.org/be-informed/#whyeo201