Accelerating Research
- maximising reach & impact October 23, 2014
Donna Okubo
PLOS Senior Advocacy Manager
About PLOS
PLOS is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization
founded to accelerate progress in science and medicine by
leading a transformation in research communication.
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11 years old
The largest not-for-profit Open Access publisher (~ 3000
publications per month)
The publisher of 7 peer-reviewed Open Access journals
Based in San Francisco, US, and Cambridge, UK
Self-sustaining since late 2010
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PLOS – a publisher since 2003
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Major PLOS Milestones, 2003 – 2007
PLOS Computational
Biology, PLOS
Genetics and
PLOS Pathogens,
community journals
2005
PLOS Biology,
OA alternative
top-tier biology
journal
2003
2004
PLOS Medicine,
OA alternative
top-tier
medical
journal
PLOS Neglected
Tropical Diseases,
community journal
with startup
Funding from
Gates Foundation
2007
2006
PLOS ONE,
new selection
criteria—now
the world’s largest
journal
Major PLOS Milestones, 2008 – 2013
Article-Level
Metrics, Blogs
and Currents,
innovations and
experiments
in publishing
2009
2008
Open Access
Week,
co-founded
by PLOS,
SPARC and
Students for
Free Culture
to promote
Open Access
50,000th
article
published
by PLOS
2012
2010
OA as a
Sustainable
Model
and Hub
2013
10th anniversary of
PLOS publishing;
Accelerating Science
Awards Program
(ASAP), pioneers who
applied Open Access
research to innovate in
any field and benefit
society and 100,000th
article published
PLOS By the Numbers
100,000+ 93%
articles published through
2013
of Authors
are likely to submit
to PLOS again
9 million+
article views per month
150,000+ 1.7 million 53 Nobel Laureates
Twitter followers
Monthly downloads
have published with PLOS
through July 2014
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140000
Growth of Published Open Access Articles
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OUP
Copernicus
100000
MDPI
80000
Frontiers
PLoS
60000
Hindawi
40000
Springer
Open
BMC
20000
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2009
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2011
2012
2013
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Our core business is to get authors’
work in the hands of those who
can use it
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebarrowboy/7646188700 CC BY
…to enable those uses
that we can’t yet imagine
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Open > Free
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PLOS’ Core Principles
• We believe that published research articles should be openly available to
everyone, online and without restriction, for the benefit of scientists, science
and the greater public good:
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Free access – no charge to access
No embargos – immediately available
Reuse – Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) to use with proper
attribution
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CC-BY License: the basics
• Authors retain copyright but license their work under a CC-BY license
• CC-BY 4.0 License – the most open license
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Share– copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt – remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even
commercially.
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Attribution – you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to license and
indicate if changes were made.
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Is This Really a Big Deal?
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Open Access Becomes Global Policy
Governments & Institutions Universities
adopt OA policies
European Commission
Research Councils UK
World Bank
Wellcome
NIH
Medical Research Council (UK)
UNESCO
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
MacArthur Foundation
CERN
Swiss NSF
and more...
adopt OA policies
Argentina
Denmark
France
India
Ireland
Italy
US
UK
Switzerland
Australia
Brazil
Columbia
Canada
Hong Kong
Copenhagen
India
Kenya
Japan
and more…
ROARMAP
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California State Legislation: AB 609 – Public
Access to Taxpayer Funded Research
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US Increases Open Access Mandates
Affirms Public Right to Access publically-funded research
WHITE HOUSE Mandates agencies
• Define Open Access within 6 months
• Manuscript availability by
12 months after publication
• Set policy for data availability (2013)
NIH First Open Access mandate for a major
public US funding agency (2008)
• Mandates Open Access within 12 months of
publication, established by Congress
CONGRESS Considers Expanded Open Access legislation
• FRPAA (Federal Research Public Access Act) (2006, 2009, 2012)
• FASTR (Fair Access to Science and Technology Research) (2013)
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The Policy Landscape (UK)
HEFCE - only Open Access articles will be
considered for assessment after 2014
CC BY Tony Hisgett
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RCUK Designates £17 million
in 2013 to pay Open Access APCs via block
grants to research organisations
House of Commons BIS Report supports
Open Access & role of Repositories (2013)
Finch Report recommends
Open Access publishing for
publicly funded research (2012)
RCUK Updates Open Access Policy
• “Prefers” immediate Open Access with maximum
opportunity for reuse
• Policy supports Open Access via journals and
repositories (2012)
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Not All Open Access is created equal
www.plos.org/HowOpenIsIt
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& the HOII spectrum:
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How does this help me navigate my
funders requirements?
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Publishing in journals at the top of the
HOII spectrum
Automatically meet many funder requirements:
• Automatic deposition in repositories
• Freely available to read online
• Generous reuse rights
Easily meet other funder requirements:
• Deposit in an repository at any time during the publication process (HEFCE)
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Free Access to read is just the
first step
Flickr CC-BY Robble Shade
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Ultimate Aim: Maximizing Impact through
Reuse
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Measuring Reuse:
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Article-Level Metrics (ALMs): measures which might provide insight into
‘impact’ or ‘reach’ of individuals articles
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ALMs are used for discovery and filtering
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ALMs can be used to demonstrate the impact your work has had on the field,
in the media, even among the general public
wwww.article-level-metrics.plos.org
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Measuring Reuse
Usage
PLOS : views
PDF downloads
XML downloads
PMC views
PDF downloads
Social Network
CiteULike
Mendeley
Twitter
Facebook
Citations
PubMed Central
CrossRef
Scopus
Web of Science
Blogs & Media
Nature Blogs
ScienceSeeker
Research Blogging
Wikipedia
Trackbacks
PLOS
Comments
Notes
Ratings
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Moving beyond the article: Data Availability
Data underlying the findings and conclusions
made available without restriction, with rare
exception.
• Repositories – subject specific e.g. GEO or
broad e.g. Figshare
• Supplementary information – e.g. data
underlying means & SD in machine readable
format e.g. MS Excel
www.plosone.org/static/policies#faqs
www.plosone.org/static/policies#sharing
…& many more!
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Congressional Ebola debate invokes PLOS paper
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Don’t Miss an Opportunity
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