[GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

Wed Jul 10 22:22:26 BST 2019

Hi all,

I will jump in on this thread being the past-chair of the Research4Life Executive Council. First, it's great to read both Heather's and Michelle's positive endorsements for Research4Life and here is some further context to this aspect of the discussion.

Research4Life was launched in 2001, long before Open Access became a mainstream business model for scholarly journals, and at the time was a break-through initiative to ensure equality of access for researchers in low-income countries. Since then, some 175 publishers have come on board and now offer all or some of their published content with no expectation of any revenue. They, and all the other collaborating partners, have collectively confirmed their commitment to Research4Life until 2025, by which time there will undoubtedly have been many changes in the way research outputs are generated and communicated. If not, Research4Life has extended commitments many times in the past, and will surely do so again. In addition to mediating access to peer reviewed content, we have provided extensive capacity development programs and helped librarians in registered institutions to improve the information literacy of many tens of thousands of their patrons.

Research4Life has evolved over time to offer over 23,500 journals, including the nearly 11,000 titles indexed in DOAJ, as well as over 80,000 ebooks and 130 other resources; we still believe it is critical to provide a unified interface to both subscription and open access content, for improved user experience.

Providing equality of access to content is of course only the first step, and we too are keen for Research4Life to be a more inclusive and multi-directional platform.  Indeed, African Journals Online (AJOL) is just one example where content from the Global South is included in the collection alongside that from the more developed North. However, while initiatives like Research4Life can address the challenge of access to content, there remains the challenge of creating a truly sustainable Open Access publishing model in and for the Global South.  A global transition to Open Access may remove some further barriers for researchers, scholars and students, but we must ensure that this does not simply shift the barrier to being one that prevents researchers contributing their own work to the scholarly communication ecosystem. We'd love to have a conversation with others interested in this concern.

Thank you Heather also for pointing out the broken internal link in the Research4Life website - we have fixed it!

Best regards,
Daniel

Daniel M. Dollar
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Yale University Library
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Von: goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org> <goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org>> Im Auftrag von Heather Morrison
Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Juli 2019 00:09
An: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal at eprints.org<mailto:goal at eprints.org>>
Betreff: Re: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

Thank you Michelle.

It is helpful to know that Scopus is included in research4life, and I note the good work of this initiative.

For the purposes of analysis of the appropriateness of CC-BY for open access, please note that CC-BY materials are likely being accessed today through a toll access service, Scopus, whether through fully paid services, or partially or fully subsidized services in select low income countries. In the latter case, these works are accessed not as open access, but rather as part of a service which requires registration and access provisions which I gather are similar to subscription services, i.e. reading requires providing evidence of being a member of a particular institution.

The difference in vision of open access and research4life is illustrated by the research4life answer to the FAQ question "are there other initiatives for accessing online journals"?
https://www.research4life.org/faq/<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.research4life.org%2Ffaq%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cdaniel.dollar%40yale.edu%7Cd9d1a190f8794158354b08d70451a716%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636982621114506751&sdata=hQQvfNQ%2BbnzJT14%2BO%2F8OBNQ3%2FSfiN%2BS2ztXLf5QAwvo%3D&reserved=0>

There is no mention here of open access. There are two links provided for other resources (scroll to the bottom). One link is to the Liblicense Developing Nations Initiatives webpage; the other (not working) is to the program pages. The Liblicense page does not mention open access and does not list major open access sources such as the Directories of Open Access Journals, Books, Repositories, the Bielefeld Open Access Search Engine, PubMed/PubMedCentral, arXiv, etc. etc.

Of course it is possible that this is an oversight and that research4life, if notified of the omission, would welcome an update of the FAQ to reflect open access and the widespread availability of OA resources.

Although research4life is doing good work, it may be worth noting that according to its website there is commitment on the part of partners to continue this work only until 2025. Also, while charity is wonderful, equity is better. My vision of OA includes a level playing field - everyone can access the resources (recognizing infrastructural and education inequities that also need to be overcome), and everyone qualified can contribute on an equal basis. The latter might be an interesting discussion for another time.

best,

Heather Morrison

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From: Leonard, Michelle M <mleonard at uflib.ufl.edu<mailto:mleonard at uflib.ufl.edu>>
Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 11:37 AM
To: Heather Morrison
Subject: RE: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

Attention : courriel externe | external email

Hello,

I encourage you to check out the Research4Life: https://www.research4life.org<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.research4life.org&data=02%7C01%7Cdaniel.dollar%40yale.edu%7Cd9d1a190f8794158354b08d70451a716%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636982621114516744&sdata=IJqKJbgNlKcSM55U5kcN%2B2wDWXS%2FLix1igeFh%2BGWCRQ%3D&reserved=0> and find that Elsevier DOES offer Scopus and thousands of other journals/book access to participating, under-represented countries (contrary to your statement below). Other publishers also offer thousands of journals/books to underrepresented counties. Here is a few videos that we developed for our faculty who are working on a USAID grant to Feed the Future. http://livestocklab.ifas.ufl.edu/events/webinars-on-literature-access/<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flivestocklab.ifas.ufl.edu%2Fevents%2Fwebinars-on-literature-access%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cdaniel.dollar%40yale.edu%7Cd9d1a190f8794158354b08d70451a716%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636982621114516744&sdata=ZXs%2BQrA2eroAgyoDdnRDVpsUg0LucSZkOObc3m7DXKs%3D&reserved=0>

Warm regards,

Michelle

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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org> <goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org>> On Behalf Of Christian Gutknecht
Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 11:14 AM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal at eprints.org<mailto:goal at eprints.org>>
Subject: Re: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

Hi Heather

Sorry, I can't follow you on that:

Increase in monopoly power for Elsevier: anyone can use the CC licensed material to create a competitor to Scopus, however only Elsevier can use their copyrighted work. CC-BY reduces the likelihood of successful competition.

The problem here is obviously not the CC-BY content, but the the non-open content of Elsevier. So forcing Elsevier also to use CC-BY for their "own" content would enable competition for analysis tools like Scopus.

Best regards

Christian

Am 08.07.2019 um 15:39 schrieb Heather Morrison <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca<mailto:Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>>:

In related news: Elsevier's toll access service Scopus now includes 5,393 open access journals. This is helpful to illustrate and analyze some of the implications of blanket downstream commercial re-use (e.g. CC-BY):

Extra profit for Elsevier: no need to pay CC-BY journals, and open licensing reduces their costs for clarifying permissions.

Increase in monopoly power for Elsevier: anyone can use the CC licensed material to create a competitor to Scopus, however only Elsevier can use their copyrighted work. CC-BY reduces the likelihood of successful competition.

Development of underdevelopment: authors from poor countries get the benefit of increased exposure with OA, but are locked out of the next generation of services built on this such as Scopus. CC-BY is not sufficient to achieve the vision of sharing the knowledge of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich; this license facilitates one-way sharing of the poor with the rich, as it lacks a means of ensuring reciprocity. (CC-BY-SA does not ensure reciprocity either; it means use the same license for derivatives, not share like I have. A re-used OA article with CC-BY-SA can be re-used in a TA environment).

I recommend against the use of licenses allowing blanket commercial re-use to authors, journals, OA advocates and policy-makers.

best,

Dr. Heather Morrison
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa
Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa
Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight Project
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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org> <goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org>> on behalf of Bernie Folan <bernie.folan at oaspa.org<mailto:bernie.folan at oaspa.org>>
Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 7:01:54 AM
To: Bernie Folan
Subject: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

Attention : courriel externe | external email

***With apologies for cross posting ***

OASPA has published a new blog post summarising the results of a recent OA article data collection exercise carried out with input from OASPA members.

You can find the post at MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "urldefense.proofpoint.com" claiming to be https://oaspa.org/growth-continues-for-oaspa-member-oa-content/<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__oaspa.org_growth-2Dcontinues-2Dfor-2Doaspa-2Dmember-2Doa-2Dcontent_%26d%3DDwMFaQ%26c%3DsJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg%26r%3DssCLXh87Rj41R5MsPHywthaoGsLJQ162PMxFJoppYoQ%26m%3DEgBlNnILDuyni7584cDV-iP1HPi2V5i-38m-BK4cSP0%26s%3D1iz0k9GTnyPsH87QuhyOVd8WGo0KCKJ8NgSsQA4PeOM%26e%3D&data=02%7C01%7Cdaniel.dollar%40yale.edu%7Cd9d1a190f8794158354b08d70451a716%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C636982621114536733&sdata=jKMBslwCzebCQjfOKeEU9xnr7eiAHYb0tZ2jrvpiYug%3D&reserved=0>

Some highlights:

  *   Total growth in output by OASPA members is 23%. This does include some new contributors but on the whole, they were small numbers so don't count much towards the total.
  *   Growth in CC BY articles published in fully OA journals is 18% so this is slightly higher than it has done for the past 5 years.
  *   Over a quarter of a million CC BY articles were published by OASPA members in fully OA journals last year.

Do feel free to share within your networks.

Best wishes,
Bernie

Bernie Folan
Events and Communications Coordinator, OASPA
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