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Open Access to Scientific Information Public Library of Science, et. al

Open Access to Scientific Information Public Library of Science, et. al. by Dr. Esther R. Dyer Executive Director American-Italian Cancer Foundation New York, NY. Bielefeld 2002 Conference. High Quality Information for All And What It Costs.

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  1. Open Access to Scientific Information Public Library of Science, et.al by Dr. Esther R. Dyer Executive Director American-Italian Cancer Foundation New York, NY Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  2. Bielefeld 2002 Conference High Quality Information for All And What It Costs Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  3. If you have an apple and I have an apple and if we exchange these apples then you and I will still have an apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas, ….George Bernard Shaw Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  4. The worldwide web and electronic journals are deconstructing the traditional serials landscape, changing the role of libraries, scholars, indexers and more. Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  8. Physics ePrint Archives Average Daily Usage ArXIV.org Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  10. Open Archives Goals • Develops and promotes interoperability standards • Facilitate the efficient dissemination of content • Enhance access to e-print archives • Increasing the availability of scholarly communication Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  11. Open Archives • Long-term trends towards primary information being openly accessible • Discipline variation – central archives vs. distributed web sites • OAI can used across distributed systems independent of content and economic mechanisms Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  13. Source Ulrichs Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  16. Declining costs of access to information is a crucial factor in the progress of humanity. Now feasible to provide and properly organize a freely available scientific knowledge. Scientists’ responsibility to work toward this goal. It can only be achieved by changing attitudes toward scientific publishing. One More Revolution… Free Scientific Publishing R. Krzysztof, Association for Computing Machinery, May 2001 Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  17. The Journal WarsPurdue UniversitySPARC Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  18. Between 1986 and 2000 Average Cost of Subscriptions increased 226% Number Bought by Libraries Decreased 6% Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  22. SPARC Publisher-Partnerships Goals • Create competitive scholarly communication marketplace • Reduce cost of journal acquisition, production and distribution • Reward responsive publishers • Ensure fair use of electronic resources • Strengthen proprietary rights and privileges of authorship • Use technology to improve scholarly communication Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  23. www.sparceurope.com Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  24. Premise: Nonprofit journals are more cost effective than commercial ventures Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  25. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming Alternative Journals Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  26. SPARC Titles are Less Expensive www.sparceurope.org Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  28. Digital archive of life sciences journal literature • Developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)/NLM • PubMed Central aims to fill the role of a world class library in the digital age. • Access to PubMed Central is free and unrestricted. Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  30. BioMed Central Traffic (November 2001) • 1 million impressions per month • 4000 individual users daily • 50,000 registered users • 10 research papers submitted daily • users originate from 55,000 distinct IP addresses per month Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  31. BIOMED CENTRAL TOP 10 SOURCE COUNTRIES Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  32. Articles published on BioMed Central are: • Available free without barriers to access of any kind • Supported by advertising, sponsorship, author charges • Subject to full, high-quality peer review • Published rapidly, average 35 days • Permanently available online in full text through PubMedCentral, indexed by PubMed Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  33. Online Journals & Peer Review • Finding and managing reviewers is a major challenge • A recent task force on peer review noted that :to maintain benefits of current system, any new replacements will be at least as expensive in terms of money or referee resources • Money may have to come from government funding unless institutions can redirect library savings Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  35. Let the Archives Go! Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  36. Open Letter Top 10 Source CountriesCountry Signatures United States 3142France 2485Spain 1405Brazil 1374United Kingdom 1001Germany 969Italy 878Belgium 732Portugal 623Argentina 612 Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  38. Non-profit organization of scientists • Committed to making scientific and medical literature • Freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world • For the benefit of scientific progress, education and the public good Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  40. A Guide to Creating Community-controlled Science Journals DECLARING INDEPENDENCE www.createchange.org Public Library of Science Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  42. Total Accesses: 31,953,979 Searches Performed: 7,979,862 Articles Viewed: 6,677,748 Articles Printed: 4,110,051 Pages Viewed: 12,177,930 Total Issues Available: 53,264 Total full-length articles available: 611,478 Total articles: 1,302,910 Total pages currently available: 7,809,852 Number of participating institutions: 1,130 Number of participating journals: 273 Number of journals available online: 169 Number of participating publishers: 148 JSTOR FACTS Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  43. Major Medical Publishers make Journals Available Freely Developing Countries via Internet • Blackwell Science • Elsevier Science • Harcourt Worldwide • Lippincott Williams & Wilkins • Springer Verlag • Wolters Kluwer Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  44. Project of the Human Info NGO • More than 100 partners • Provides universal free or low-cost information access • Cooperates with UN Agencies, Universities and NGOs  Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  45. • Essential Information readily available• Solve local development problems• Equivalent of 16 full university degrees in 1 “library”• Create ready-to-upload libraries for servers in developing countries Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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  47. Dedicated to facilitating scholar-led innovations in scholarly communication • Supporting experiments in alternative production and dissemination of scholarship • Program commitment University of California • University of California Hosted Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  48. Open Access to Information Libraries and Nonprofit Alliances Scientists and Scholars Electronic Journals Online Access Authors Readers Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  49. Open AccessOptions for Cost Recovery • Charge for rejection • Author Charges • Institutional support for authors • Self-archiving windfall savings – yields library subvention • Government Support • Advertisements Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

  50. Change in Scholarly Communication • Economic and organizational barriers to entry in digital publishing • Creation of innovative alternatives • Increased volume and escalating costs • Adequate signals of quality within burgeoning literatures • Efficient dissemination among peers • Opportunities for review and protection of intellectual property • Enduring availability for the future Bielefeld 2002, Dr. Esther R. Dyer

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