Taking control of the publishing system you will inherit Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_Joe Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button Launched in Summer 2009. Built around the Student Statement on the Right to Research: access to research is a student right International alliance of 77 graduate & undergraduate student organizations, representing nearly 7 million students We Educate + Advocate for Open Access What’s the plan? www.righttoresearch.org www.righttoresearch.org www.righttoresearch.org www.righttoresearch.org www.righttoresearch.org What’s going on behind a paywall? www.righttoresearch.org www.righttoresearch.org http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200 Average journal price in Health Sciences: www.righttoresearch.org Chemistry = $4,450 Physics = $3,893 Agriculture = $1,441 = $1,482 Source: Library Journal 2013 Periodicals Pricing Survey “The Winds of Change | Periodicals Price Survey 2013,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal, April 25, 2013: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/publishing/the-winds-of-change-periodicals-price-survey-2013 www.righttoresearch.org -25% 25% 75% 125% 175% 225% 275% 325% 375% 425% 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 % C ha ng e Si nc e 19 86 Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C. *Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward. Graph 2 Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011* Serial Expenditures (+402%) Monograph Expenditures (+71%) Monographs Purchased (10%) Publishing obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: “a license to print money.” www.righttoresearch.org The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574 www.righttoresearch.org Publishing is big business… Date taken from on August 2nd https://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/ Is there a reason publishing should be this expensive? www.righttoresearch.org 1914 Yes Left: Moyan Brenn - http://bit.ly/1veyL61 Right: Image courtesy of Nick Perla - http://bit.ly/1tAXRc5 2014 No www.righttoresearch.org 80% of research is publicly funded 1 Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into shares, HSBC Global Research, February 11, 2013: https://www.research.hsbc.com/midas/Res/RDV?ao=20&key=RxArFbnG1P&n=360010.PDF 1 But wait, this system is amazing. www.righttoresearch.org Shouldn’t our publishing system what we entrust to distribute the knowledge we work so hard to create share our values? www.righttoresearch.org www.righttoresearch.org Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articles with full reuse rights As defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative www.righttoresearch.org What Open Access isn’t: • Low quality publication • Publication without peer review www.righttoresearch.org • 10000 viable journals • 2000 Repositories • 30% of papers published are public access www.sparc.arl.org www.righttoresearch.org www.righttoresearch.org 168x faster 26,667x cheaper 400x more sensitive 100x more selective Current test (ELISA): $800, high false positives Jack’s test: $.03, >99% accuracy, 5 min “I used [free, online articles] religiously. Just because, in most online databases, articles cost about $35, and there are only about 10 pages… My research should serve as a testament to free online research (...) It was hard to get what I needed without the costs. People should take note and because of this project, we should make a move toward more inexpensive or free online research.” - Jack Andraka Interview with Vancouver Observer www.vancouverobserver.com/world/how-aaron-swartz-paved-way-jack-andrakas-revolutionary-cancer-test We need more Jack Andrakas www.righttoresearch.org Students are setting the default to Open www.righttoresearch.org www.righttoresearch.org Two paths to Open Access Self- archiving Open Access Journals www.righttoresearch.org 1. Publish in an open-access journal X >9,700 www.righttoresearch.org 1. Publish in an open-access journal $ $ or www.righttoresearch.org X 2,000 2. Publish (almost) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum Source: www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/statistics.php?la=en&fIDnum=|&mode=simple www.righttoresearch.org 1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits over the past 4.5 years www.righttoresearch.org www.righttoresearch.org i) confirms the importance of students having access to research journals and articles as part of their training; ii) notes the high cost to institutions and individuals when accessing scholarly literature; iii) proposes that this could hinder medical students in their development as ‘The Doctor as the Scientist’ as well as developing an evidence based clinical approach; iv) welcomes and endorses the Right To Research Coalition’s statement on Open Access to research literature. www.righttoresearch.org June 25, 2012 www.righttoresearch.org “…the degree of student initiative and engagement at UBC gives this issue a whole new impetus.” So what can you do? Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014 www.righttoresearch.org So what else can you do? Today Help me test this  Later Talk about Open Access Use the OpenAccessButton.org www.righttoresearch.org In Summary… www.righttoresearch.org • An expensive, broken publishing system has created an access crisis. • The internet, and Open Access has given us viable ways to address this problem • Students/young researchers have been at the heart of this movement and must continue to be Lack of access is not a problem that only affects one country, one continent, or one field of study. We need a broad, global student coalition. We need your help. www.righttoresearch.org My talk is over, but this is not Thank you! Joe@righttoresearch.org or @Mcarthur_Joe My slides, videos and more www.righttoresearch.org/learn/LSE-PhD-FOSTER