Open Access Discussion
Alicia Wise, Director of Access and Policy
Elsevier and Open Access
We support sustainable access and work hard to provide a range of open
access options alongside our access initiatives to ensure everyone can read,
use and trust the latest research.
Facts and Figures:
Open Access Publishing
• Launched 63 open access journals and growing…
• Open Access options in 1,608 of our established journals
• We host 91 third party open access journals on ScienceDirect
• 97 journals give free access to archived material
Working with others
• SCOAP3
• Agreements in place with 15 funding bodies
• Agreements in place with 9 institutions/consortia
• Pilots with others
Open Access funded through APCs
Our Gold Open Access Options
include:
 Elsevier’s open access publication fees are
Open Access Journals
market based & provide competitive prices
Open Access Articles
which range from 500 - 5000 US Dollars.
 Elsevier receives an exclusive license to publish.
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Launched 63 open access journals
and growing…
Open Access options in 1,608 of our
established journals
We host 91 third party open access
journals on ScienceDirect
 Offer authors a choice of user licenses, including Creative
Commons Attribution CC-BY, CC BY-NC-SA and CC-BYNC-ND. The choice is dependent on the journal where the
author decides to publish.
No Double Dipping
 Two publishing services, priced entirely independently of one another:
 Subscription articles: Subscription fees are charged on a rolling basis and allow
the readers to receive the subscription articles.
 Open Access Articles: Open access publication fees are collected and allow
authors to broadcast open access articles to anyone. These are one-time
payments that support making the article available for free in perpetuity.
 For pricing, titles with open access articles are treated as two journals-
in-one: a subscription volume and an open access volume.
 Consequently, the 2014 journal price change accounts for subscription
articles and not open access article uptake.
Price adjustments for 2014
Title
2013 Price ($)
Adjusted Price
Increase 2014
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Prices of subscription journals can
rise or fall.
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For example, in 2014 we have
adjusted the list prices of 27 titles
downwards to reflect falls in
subscription article volume.
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In some cases, hybrid titles with
declining subscription revenue
and an increasing number of open
access articles will transition
towards a full open access model
as a result of this process.
2014 Price ($)
PROGRESS IN PLANNING
1,201
0.00%
1,201
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
9,273
-8.19%
8,513
Mechanisms of Development
3,472
-10.00%
3,125
CORTEX
2,082
-2.92%
2,021
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
5,561
-3.71%
5,355
DNA Repair
2,288
-6.22%
2,146
Biophysical Chemistry
5,375
-7.89%
4,951
Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis
7,403
-4.63%
7,060
BIOSYSTEMS
2,484
-5.32%
2,352
Theoretical Population Biology
1,516
-4.63%
1,446
Gene Expression Patterns
2,538
-5.50%
2,398
TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY (Pers Ed)
2,347
0.00%
2,347
MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY
4,568
-8.10%
4,198
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES
3,861
-4.50%
3,687
Toxicology
7,473
-4.98%
7,101
VISION RESEARCH
5,152
-2.75%
5,010
JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
6,381
-2.19%
6,241
Behaviour Research and Therapy
2,498
-5.60%
2,358
Clinical Immunology
3,366
-4.29%
3,222
Marine Chemistry
3,248
-6.48%
3,038
Virology
7,546
-5.12%
7,160
INT JNL OF MACHINE TOOLS & MANUFACTURE
4,430
-6.49%
4,143
INT. JNL. OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
9,837
-3.11%
9,531
JNL OF MATERIALS PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
7,688
-10.00%
6,919
Cancer Letters
7,987
-2.93%
7,753
Ecological Modelling
5,919
-2.61%
5,764
Creative Commons License Choices by Authors
SD Article: clearly labels full OA journals
Label for article in full
OA Journal
Funding and end-user
license information if
available
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Advanced search: addresses needs of expert users,
such as librarians
Allows for OA article
selection
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Open Access funded through
Subscriptions
Open Archive
Green Open Access
 17,288 articles made free to access in 2012
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Many questions:
•Agreements
•Embargos
•Licensing
•Monitoring compliance with policies
•Who deposits/links, when, and where
•Usage reporting
•Version
Chorusaccess.org
A broad coalition of scholarly journal publishers formed to develop, implement and steward a
partnership with the federal research funders for providing public access to the results of
federally-funded research including peer-reviewed publications, agency reports and associated
data.
• Evolved from an ad-hoc group of publishers who initiated partnership discussions with
several agencies in Spring 2011.
Goals:
• Fully meet all requirements of the February 22, 2013 OSTP memo
• Leverage existing infrastructure and investment of the agencies and publishers
• Preserve agency funds for mission critical activities/programs
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Discovery Service (website & API)
Discovery service for articles that report on agency-funded
research. Agencies can use API to feed their own
search.chorusaccess.org
powered by
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AIP Landing Page (Pre-Embargo)
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Elsevier Gold Open Access Landing Page
Elsevier Gold Open Access Version of Record PDF
API Integration with Agency Portals
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Key Performance Indicators Dashboard
(website & API)
System for monitoring and tracking publisher contributions to the CHORUS system
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Live CHORUS DOE dashboard:
http://dashboard.chorusaccess.org/usdoe
# Deposits
identifying
US DOE funding
# Records
having
agreeable
licenses
Content tested
for public
accessibility
# Deposits made
to dark archives
Text Mining
Using CrossRef’s Prospect Service
The Issue
• Researchers are increasingly interested in text and data mining (TDM) published scholarly
content
• Both Researchers and Publishers find it impractical to negotiate multiple bilateral
agreements
• All would benefit from technical standards to enable TDM (APIs and data representations)
The Solution
• CrossRef’s Prospect service provides:
◦ Common API
used by researchers to access the full text of content identified
by CrossRef DOIs across publisher platforms
◦ License Registry
• transparently shows what terms apply
• provides “click-through” agreement of TDM licenses if
needed
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Supporting Organizations (October 1, 2013)
Publishers
ACM
Acoustical Society of America
American Association for the Advancement of
Science
American Association of Anatomists
American Association for Cancer Research
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
American Association of Physics Teachers
American Astronomical Society
American Chemical Society
American Crystallographic Association, Inc.
American College of Chest Physicians
American College of Physicians
American Dental Association
American Diabetes Association
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Institute of Biological Sciences
American Institute of Physics
American Mathematical Society
American Meteorological Society
American Medical Association
American Nuclear Society
American Physical Society
American Physiological Society
American Psychiatric Publishing
American Psychological Association
American Society for Microbiology
American Society of Agricultural & Biological
Engineers
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Society of Plant Biologists
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology
AVS: Science & Technology of Materials,
Interfaces and Processing
Biophysical Society
Bioscientifica
Botanical Society of America
BMJ
Cambridge University Press
Columbia University Press
Duke University Press
Ecological Society of America
Elsevier
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
The Endocrine Society
Entomological Society of America
Fabricators and Manufacturers Association,
International
Genetics Society of America
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
IEEE
iMedPub. Internet Medical Publishing
Institute of Physics Publishing
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Journal of Rehabilitation Research and
Development
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Materials Research Society
McGraw-Hill
Mycological Society of America
New England Journal of Medicine
The Optical Society
Oxford University Press
The Physiological Society
The Royal College of Psychiatrists
The Royal Society
Royal Society of Chemistry
Society for the Advancement of Materials on
Process Engineering
Society for the Study of Reproduction
Springer Science+Business Media LLC
Taylor & Francis
Thieme Publishers
University of Chicago Press
John Wiley & Sons
Wolters Kluwer Medical Research
Service Providers and Other Organizations
Association of Learned and Professional Society
Publishers
CrossRef
DC Principles Coalition
International Association of Scientific, Technical
and Medical Publishers (STM)
Publishing Technology
Silverchair Science+Communications, Inc.
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What is the future of open access?
A successful transition to open access presents
challenges and opportunities for all stakeholders, it will
take some time (and goodwill, flexibility, and trust)