SHERPA/RoMEO
for Publishers
British Computer Society,
5 Southampton Street,
London
20th July 2011
Today’s speakers
Open Access - Threat or Opportunity for Publishers?
•
Bill Hubbard, Centre for Research Communication
Introduction to SHERPA/RoMEO and its Significance for Publishers
•
Azhar Hussain, SHERPA Services
RoMEO from a Publisher's Perspective
•
Mark Simon, Publishing Director, Maney Publishing
RoMEO and Interpreting Publishers' Policies - the Repository Administrator's
Perspective
•
Marie Cairney, University of Glasgow
Unmuddying the waters for RoMEO = Unmuddying the waters for publishers
•
Jane Smith, SHERPA Services
RoMEO from a Publisher's Perspective
•
Emily Hall, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
A RoMEO Policy Generation Tool for Publishers Services
•
Peter Millington, SHERPA Services
Open Access Threat or Opportunity for Publishers?
SHERPA/RoMEO for Publishers
20th July 2011
Bill Hubbard
Centre for Research Communications
University of Nottingham
What is Open Access - #1
Open to read?
Open to use?
Open to re-use?
What is Open Access - #2
Publications
• pre-prints
• post-prints
Data
Grey literature
Conference papers
Theses
Arts multimedia
Teaching and Learning materials
. . . what else?
What Open Access is not . . .
a subversion of peer-review
• but academics may want to modify current models
a replacement for publication
• but the world may move that way
an invitation to plagiarism
• and it might become the norm to prevent plagiarism
an attack on copyright
• but it does throw up some anomalies which
stakeholders are starting to question
Where we are so far . . .
Repositories
• 1997 worldwide, 195 UK-based
Journals
• 6744 journals worldwide - plus hybrids
Funder policies
• Publications: 55 - Data: 25 - Journals: 22
Institutional policies
• 130 policies reported, plus etheses
Services and processes
source: OpenDOAR, DOAJ, JULIET, ROARMAP, 19/07/11
Buying into Open Access
Academics are in favour
Institutions are in favour
Funders are in favour
Publishers . . . are split
Change is coming . . .
Mendeley
1,063,841 People
92,221 Groups
25,799 Institutions
99,061,238 Papers
Change is coming . . .
10 years - what changes are coming down the
track and what responses are needed?
What is inside your control and what is outside?
Irrespective of repositories, author-side
charges, open access - what will develop?
Developments in the web and ICT alone will
produce substantial change and may be the real
threat to current practice . . .
Some themes . . .
Journals
Governments will not loosen the purse strings
Subscriptions per journal will continue to decline
Continued agglomeration of publishing concerns
Smaller publishers will continue to be squeezed
and have to react
The big and the nimble will survive
Editorial and peer-review process will be
technologically mediated
Unbundling of products, processes and services with a global marketplace for service provision
Academics and IT
Increasing connectivity
Increasing demand for rapid, permanent access,
everywhere
Increasing demand for more information
Increasing demand for free access
Information per se will be more freely available and
the links between information will become the
valued commodity
Research
Full Economic Costing and Value For Money
Public awareness and public availability
Raised awareness of IPR issues
Institutions being pressured to capitalise on assets
Cross-disciplinary research
Synthesis - evidence based research - data mining
Emergence of global standards - quality control? with a global marketplace for service provision
So . . .
Change is coming - but OA repositories and
journals offer control, authority, transparency
and commercial clarity
Buying into an OA world awash with different
types of outputs, different connections between
different players, increased need for true
metadata, and different uses of material . . .
Is Open Access a threat or an opportunity?
. . . or can you choose the way to see it?
Bill Hubbard
bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk