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Experiences with an Open Access Journal

Experiences with an Open Access Journal. Professor Jerry Roberts Head of Biosciences Editor-in-Chief Journal of Experimental Botany. Journal of Experimental Botany. First published in 1950 Institutional subscriptions ~ >600 Impact Factor in 2007 ~ 3.6 Open Access option since July 2004

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Experiences with an Open Access Journal

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  1. Experiences with an Open Access Journal Professor Jerry Roberts Head of Biosciences Editor-in-Chief Journal of Experimental Botany

  2. Journal of Experimental Botany • First published in 1950 • Institutional subscriptions ~ >600 • Impact Factor in 2007 ~ 3.6 • Open Access option since July 2004 (The first plant sciences journal to offer authors the opportunity to publish under OA)

  3. Opportunities for publishing under Open Access Journal perspective: • Boosts Impact Factor • Attracts the best authors • Politically correct

  4. Opportunities for publishing under Open Access Author perspective: • Boosts citations • Accommodates requirements of funding agency • Politically correct

  5. Threats for publishing under Open Access Journal perspective: • Reduced number of institutional subscribers • Reduced subscription cost • Reduced revenue leading to journal closure

  6. Threats for publishing under Open Access Author perspective: • Costs of publishing (to author) increased • Learned Societies lose critical revenue stream • Reduced journal outlets for publication

  7. JXB Open Access Experiment Commenced in 2004: • Open Access publication ~ £250 • UK authors free ~ funded through a grant from Joint Information System Committee of the UK (JISC) Approximately 29% Open Access publications 2004-2006

  8. Countries of non UK Open Access authors (2004-6) Argentina Canada Germany Australia China Greece Belgium Czech Repub India Brazil France Italy Japan* Slovenia Taiwan Netherlands Spain USA* Norway Sweden Portugal Switzerland * >35% of total

  9. Downloads of Open Access vs Non Open Access papers Full text of Open Access papers gets downloaded more than Non Open Access papers (per Abstract) July 04 – Sept 06 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6 6-7 7-8 8-9 Full text downloads per Abstract downloads

  10. Citations of Open Access vs Non Open Access papers Average citation per paper: Non Open Access ~ 1.7 Open Access ~ 1.9 (12% increase) July 04 – Sept 06 1 2 3 4 5 6-7 8-9 10-11 Number of citations

  11. JXB 2007 - A sustainable model for Open Access Launched in April 2007 • Corresponding authors whose institutions have a subscription to the journal can publish Open Access for free • Authors whose institutions do not have a subscription to the journal can publish Open Access for £1500 • Some material remains under subscription control (eg. Reviews)

  12. JXB 2007 - A sustainable model for Open Access Challenges of model • Time consuming as institutional addresses of all corresponding authors have to be checked for subscriptions • Up to 70% of papers may become Open Access and librarians may expect a reduced subscription cost as a consequence • Plan B if Plan A fails????

  13. JXB 2007 - A sustainable model for Open Access Opportunities presented by the model • Identification of non-subscribing institutions and encouragement to re-engage with authors and librarians • Identification of novel publishable material (teaching aids/large data sets/techniques information etc) to remain under subscription control

  14. Conclusions • Open Access is going to become increasingly important to funding agencies and authors • Journals (publishers) will have to develop a sustainable model to accommodate Open Access • Funding agencies/Institutions will have to provide resources to support Open Access

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