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AdriaanB — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:56:48 CST

Open Access Wiki wants to become the place to be to read about and discuss open access in scientific communities

In the news:

New Open Access website encourages exchange of research data - 20 October 2009
Win an OA-donation for you and your research group!- 19 October 2009
Netherlands active in Open Access Week 2009 - 9 October 2009
"Open Access publication can save the Netherlands up to 133 million euros" (June 10, 2009)
10 University-Press Directors Back Free Access to Scholarly Articles (June 5, 2009)
Open-access publishing gains another convert (June 3, 2009)
Enhance the debate on Open Access (May 26, 2009)
New Open Access E-Journal JALC (The Journal of Archeology in the Low Countries)introduced (May 15, 2009)
Long-term preservation of Open Access Journals- (April 1, 2009)
Now there are 4000 journals in DOAJ- (April 1, 2009)

Propositions for the public discussion

Give your opinion!

Scientific merit

- Open Access will improve the quality of scientific publications.
- Peer review is guaranteed in an Open Access publishing model.
- A journal’s “impact factor” will no longer be relevant; an article will be judged on its own citation rating.

Accessibility

- Open Access will be analogous to Open Source.
- Open Access will make intermediaries or document delivery services obsolete.
- Governments should ensure maximum accessibility of the results of publicly funded research.

Cost structure

- Publishers’ pay-per-view model will demonstrate that there is only a limited market for a small number of widely read articles.
- Authors will be prepared to pay for peer review and the publication of their research results.

What is Open Access Publishing?

Who is involved? Read more about who's active in the Open Access Community.
What do publishers think and do about it?
OA Business models
Best practices and experiences

About book worms and snakes in the grass: Open access deserves open debate

by Maria Heijne

In 2001 I published a column in the SURF journal SURF Cahier (nr.30;November 2001).
I referred to an article in a Dutch Elsevier weekly where librarians (and researchers) were pictured as book worms in their “marginal struggle” for new (business/technical) models for publication of scientific output. Our pleas for alternative models were then and now received with a bantering tone by publishers.
In the column I predicted that the book worm could turn out to be a snake in the grass!

And indeed we DAREd to bite: the DARE project was the basis to start institutional repositories, and in 2007 it turns out to be a success with international standing: the discussion around new publication and business models appears high on all important agenda’s. Funding agencies join the debate and the EU, although impressed by the lobby of the publishers, supports openly the idea that public funded research should be published in open access.
In the mean time, publishers individually started open access ‘experiments’: they preserve the precious subscription model (paid for by the library) and offer in conjunction open access paid for by individual authors. It is not very surprising that this model will never succeed without a perspective on cost saving to the parties involved: libraries and authors.

And the publishers now think the best antidote to the snakebite is to hire a ‘pit bull’: they hired a well known aggressive PR agent (Dezenhall Resources) to take on the free-information movement’ (www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/445347a.html).
The article states ‘The publishers' link with Dezenhall reflects how seriously they are taking recent developments on access to information’.

I think we could see this as a victory for the book worms. And we really should welcome this because it could mean that publishers finally realize that the efforts from the bookworms have impact. Only now they may be ready to take serious steps in thinking with us about the real changes that have to be made to opening access to publicly funded information.

Researchers, Libraries and publishers together can now start the open debate that open access deserves.

And please let the very first step be unity in terminology: open archiving, self archiving, open access, open choice, Gold OA, Green OA, pay-to-publish, hybrid models…..
Only a clear understanding of what we are talking about can open up the discussion.

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Events Calendar

AdriaanB — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:54:08 CDT

open access conferences, events

2009

Past conference proceedings

August 23-27, Milan:World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly. One session will be devoted toResearch into open access.
June 9, Sudak, Crimea, Ukraine:Seminar about Open Access at the Sixteenth International Conference Crimea 2009
June 10-13, Pittsburgh:Open Access, New Trends, Platforms, Collaborations, and Global Outreach.12th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
June 17-19, Geneva:CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication(OAI6)
June 24-26, Paris:International Conference on Digital Libraries(ICDL 2009)
July 8-10, Vancouver:International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference.
May 18-21, Atlanta, Georgia: 4th annual internationalOpen Repositories 2009Conference
May 6-8, Indianapolis:Opening Doors, Opening Minds: The Impact of Open Access & Open Source.Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians 2009 Conference
May 11-14, Liverpool:Open models in knowledge intensive sectors: Free/Open Source Software and beyond. A track withinEURAM 2009.

May 14, Pretoria:Gaining the momentum: Open access & advancement of science and research.
March 28, London:Open Knowledge Conference 2009. (OKCon 2009)
January 29-30, New Delhi: National Seminar on Open Access to Textual and Multimedia Content: Bridging the Digital Divide
January 5-9, Big Island, Hawaii: Open Science: Developing tools and approaches to facilitate open exchange between scientists and data
December 15-16, Athens: Open Access Infrastructures: the Future of Scientific Communication
November 11-13, Düsseldorf: Changing Scholarly Communication in the Knowledge Society (Berlin 6 Open Access Conference)
November 12-14, Lilongwe, Malawi : 6th International Open Access Conference
December 4-5, Sydney: Open Access Publishing: A two-day Public Knowledge Project Workshop
December 5, Linz: International Symposium on Open Access.
September 24-25, Brisbane: Open Access and Research Conference 2008
September 4-6, Oslo : 2nd European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine & Medicine - Researchers and Open Access
July 18-22, Barcelona: EuroSciece Open Forum 2008
June 25-27, Toronto: Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0 (12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing)
July 7-16, Trieste: Workshop on Using Open Access Models for Science Dissemination
May 21-24, Vancouver: Libraries & Publishing 3.0: connecting authors to readers in the digital age (CLA Annual Conference 2008)
April 14, Thessaloniki: Open Access: New Trends in Scholarly Communcation
April 21-24, Lund: Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication (NCSC 2008)
April 1-4, Southampton: Open Repositories 2008
January 21-23 , Berlin: Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) 2008
January 28-30, Zadar: Providing Access to Information for Everyone 2008
January 30-31, Osaka: Open Access and Institutional Repository in Asia-Pacific (DRF international conference 2008)
October 19-24, Milwaukee: Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science (ASIS&T 2007 Annual Meeting)
October 30-31, Milton Keynes: Researching open content in education
November 2-4, Pittsburgh: 3rd annual International Conference on the Universal Digital Library
November 4, South Hadley, Massachusetts: Open Access and Free Scholarly Resources: What Are They and How Can You Find Them?
September 26-29, The Hague: The relevance of Open Acces for Global Development, Development Cooperation and Research (EADI IMWG Conference 2007), Live video stream
19-21 September, Padova, Italy: Berlin 5 Open Access Conference
16-21 September, Budapest: ECDL (European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
27-31 August, Tilburg: Digital Libraries à la Carte 2007
1-3 August, Sydney: Open Publish 2007, 7th annual conference on Open Publish
11-13 July, Vancouver: PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007
21 or 22 June, London: Experience of Open Access - looking at the data
June 23, Washington: Forum to Explore Progress of Open Access Journal Publishing Models
June 6-8, San Francisco: Imagining the Future: Scholarly Communication 2.0 (SSP 2007)
June 11, London: Open Research: Third London Conference on Opening Access to Research Publications
June 11-14, Stockholm: Global Access to Science: Scientific Publishing for the Future (IATUL 2007)
June 13-15, Vienna: Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access
May 24, London: Evolving Business Models in Academic Publishing
May 30 - June 1, Cologne: Open Innovation – New Perspectives in the Context of Information and Knowledge? (10th International Symposium for Information Science)
May 15-18, Montreal: Building Global Knowledge Communities with Open Data (IASSIST 2007)
May 17-18, Hong Kong: Promoting 21st Century Scholarly Communication: The Role of Institutional Repositories in the Open Access Movements
May 23, Philadelphia: The Challenges and Opportunities
Facing Libraries in an Open Access Environment (MLA Symposium)
April 24-26, Maseru, Lesotho: Open Access and Institutional Repository: New Models for Scholarly Communication
April 18-20, CERN, Geneva: 5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
April 19, Delft: TU Delft Library Symposium Open Access: heading for a difficult position or a pas-de-deux? About the accessibility and costs of scholarly information in digital form..
April 19, Vancouver: Beyond Limits: Building Open Access Collections
April 20, Philadelphia: Drexel University Libraries 2007 Scholarly Communication Symposium: Intellectual Property Rights
April 23-24, Elsinore: Nordbib workshop on Open Access
April 17, London: International Scholarly Communications Conference: The transformation of research communication
April 12, Washington: All Together Now: Scholarly Communication and the Power of Online Communities
March 20, Edmonton: Open Access: the Sea Change in Scholarly Publishing
February 13th - How to increase your impact with Open Access (DRIVER, Belgium)
February 5th - Open Access Symposium: Not one size fits all (Winnipeg)
February 8th - Open Access: How Can We Achieve Quality and Quantity? (London)
January 23-24 - Innovation & Publishing / Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) (Berlin)
January 23-26 - Open Repositories 2007 (San Antonio, Texas)

News Archive

AdriaanB — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:46:00 CDT

The Dutch higher education sector has declared 2009 to be ‘Open Access Year’ (February 26, 2009)

Cell Transplantation Now Open-Access, The Regenerative Medicine Journal , the number two journal ranked by impact factor in the field of transplantation, has become an "open access" journal from the 1st January 2009 (January 7, 2009)

EU supports open access to scientific and scholarly information(October 29, 2008)

Open Access in Nederland: de volgende stap - UKB September 2008(October 29, 2008)

Open Access Moves Into the Mainstream: BioMed Central Purchased by Springer(October 16, 2008)

Open Access fund stimulates world-wide propagation of knowledge; (July 1 2008) from 1 April 2008 until the end of 2008, researchers can utilise a Publishing Fund to finance OA publishing costs (Order form)

Release of software enables European portal for scholarly research; (June 19 2008)

Launch of the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals; (April 23 2008)

Leo Waaijers Receives SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications (April 22 2008)

Op weg naar vrije toegang tot wetenschappelijke publicaties; Maria Heijne (Informatie Professional, 2007, 12, pp.12-15)

Council of the European Union conclusions on scientific information in the digital age: access, dissemination and preservation (November 2007)

OA, OK? How far has open access come in a decade? And where will it go in the next? (November 2007)

The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands; Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead. (October 2007)

International Institute Social Studies confrence Open Access Videopresentaties 2 october 2007

Open Access and the Progress of Science (October 3 2007)

Flipping a journal to open access (October 2 2007)

Publishers prepare for war over open access (September 20 2007)

Launch of an anti-open access lobbying effort (September 6 2007)

Symposium Bibliotheek TU Delft, Thursday April 19 2007 Open Access: heading for a difficult position or a pas-de-deux? About the accessibility and costs of scholarly information in digital form. Presentations available on this site.

EU Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results

References

AdriaanB — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:39:41 CDT

Read About Open Access

In this section you can find some key publications about open access publishing.

Waaijers, Leo, Savenije, B., Wesseling, M.
Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access
Ariadne 57, October 30, 2008
Davis, P. M.
Author-choice open access publishing in the biological and medical literature: a citation analysis
arXiv.org, arXiv:0808.2428v1[cs.DL], 18 Aug 2008, forthcoming in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology

Sheikh Mohammad, S.
Research impact of open access contributions across disciplines
12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub 2008), Toronto, June 25-27, 2008

Heijne, Maria
Op weg naar vrije toegang tot wetenschappelijke publicaties
Informatie Professional, 2007, 12, pp.12-15
Waaijers, Leo
The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands
Ariadne 53, October 30, 2007
Henty, M
Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities
D-Lib Magazine 13 (5/6), June 2007

Björk, B. -C. 2004.
Open access to scientific publications - an analysis of the barriers to change?
Information Research 9, (2), accessed April 13, 2007.
Harnad, S., and T. Brody. 2004.
Comparing the impact of open access (OA) vs. non-OA articles in the same journals.
D-Lib Magazine 10, (6), accessed April 13, 2007.
Velterop, J. 2003.
Should scholarly societies embrace open access (or is it the kiss of death)?
Learned Publishing 16, (3): 167-169, accessed April 13, 2007.
Willinsky, John. 2006
The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship
MIT Press (free acces after easy and fast registration), accessed April 13, 2007.

More references on del.icio.us

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Good Practices

jleeu — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:37:43 CDT

SURF Flyer over beeldmateriaal en open access
www.surf.nl/surfdirect

TU Delft zet eerste onderwijsmateriaal online
Bij de TU Delft is sinds 15 oktober jl. gratis digitaal onderwijsmateriaal te vinden. Het gaat daarbij om de eerste fase van de pilot met cursussen van de Master of Science programma's 'Civil Engineering', 'Electrical Engineering' en 'Offshore Engineering'. Het materiaal wordt verspreid onder een Creative Commons-licentie.
Delft Open Course

How Hindawi became an open access publisher
read about the conversion of Hindawi Publishing Corporation, with over 70 titles, to an open access publication model
http://www.hindawi.com/going_all_the_way.pdf

ROARMAP
Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies

http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

UKB en Springer tekenen open access intentieverklaring

SPINGER UKB en Open Access
Als eerste grote commerciele uitgever heeft Springer met de Nederlandse universiteiten afgesproken dat er onderhandeld kan worden over publicaties in de vorm van Open Access.
Lees het persbericht
http://www.ukb.nl/welkom.htm

Symposium 2007

AdriaanB — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:26:59 CDT

TU Delft Library Symposium, Thursday 19 April 2007, in Delft, The Netherlands

Presentations:

- Drs. Maria Heijne - Librarian TU Delft - DAREafter: open access? Toegang, kwaliteit en kosten van wetenschappelijke informatie
- Ad Stam – Licensing Manager Springer - Pas de Deux: ... daar zit muziek in
- Mr. Popke Huizinga – Deputy Director IOS Press - Open Access: Spagaat of Pas de Deux?
- Prof.dr.ir. Peter van Oosterom – Section GIS Technology, OTB TU Delft -
Accessibility of scientific information: GDMC/GISt research vision: geoserving the networked society

Open Access: heading for a difficult position or a pas-de-deux? About the accessibility and costs of scholarly information in digital form

The traditional relationship between publishers, scholars, readers, libraries and financial backers has long been a subject of discussion. The digitising of scholarly information has increased at an exponential rate. Theoretically, the accessibility of this information should be increasing. Yet the traditional business model entailing licences on a publisher’s total offering of information (the “big deals”) usually paid for by a library leave little potential for wide accessibility. As an example, this model allows scarcely any reuse of licensed information. This is why university libraries in the Netherlands have been working on the DARE project: the development of institutional repositories intended to make scholarly output produced by their own academic authors widely available.
Publishers, too, are launching alternative business models such as pay-per-view and open access, but only on a small scale. Although the open access model in particular guarantees accessibility, it also raises a lot of questions about guaranteeing the interests of all those involved in this model and about the underlying cost structure. Will it ultimately lead toward a difficult position or a pas-de-deux?

During this symposium, publishers, academic authors and librarians gave their own views on this.

Download the report of the Symposium ‘Open Access: heading for a difficult position or a pas-de-deux?'(available in Dutch only)

Download the programme of the Symposium 2007.

Central question:

The present business model is coming to an end — which conditions must be met for new business models, like Open Access, to be used at a large scale?

Propositions for the public discussion

Scientific merit
- Open Access will increase the visibility of research results.
- Open Access will improve the quality of scientific publications.
- Peer review is guaranteed in an Open Access publishing model.
- A journal’s “impact factor” will no longer be relevant; an article will be judged on its own citation rating.

Accessibility
- Open Access will be analogous to Open Source.
- Open Access will make intermediaries or document delivery services obsolete.
- Governments should ensure maximum accessibility of the results of publicly funded research.

Cost structure
- Publishers’ pay-per-view model will demonstrate that there is only a limited market for a small number of widely read articles.
- Authors will be prepared to pay for peer review and the publication of their research results.

About Open Access

jleeu — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:34:17 CDT

What is Open Access?

The term Open Access (often abbreviated to OA) is used for freely accessible online scholarly information. In traditional publishing models for academic or scholarly content, the reader usually pays for a copy of the article or a subscription to a journal or database. In OA, publishing costs are paid by the publisher, the writer or some other organization and the reader can access the information without any charges.

Please read the elaborate entry for open access in Wikipedia.

Information platform open-access.net now online! Open-access.net, an online information platform on open access issues is going online now. The Universities of Bielefeld, Goettingen, Constance and the Free University of Berlin jointly operate the platform and have received funding from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The platform intends to inform on the growing scientific and political significance of open access issues. At the German E-Science Conference 2007 hold on 2 May 2007 in Baden-Baden the online information platform was launched to the public for the first time.
The new platform enables not only scientists to gain comprehensive information about open access.
Open access literature is defined as free of charge for users providing online access to digital scholarly material worldwide. Since the <http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html>Berlin

Launch of the Depot in UK
The purpose of the Depot is to enable all UK academics to share in the benefits of open access exposure for their research outputs. As part of JISC RepositoryNet, the Depot is provided as a national facility geared to support the policies of UK universities and national funding agencies towards Open Access, aiding policy development in advance of a comprehensive institutional archive network.

http://depot.edina.ac.uk/

EPrints for Digital Repositories
Within this site you will find information and resources to make open access a reality within your own institution.

http://www.eprints.org/

Sandbox

AdriaanB — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:48:01 CDT

This area can be used by anyone who wants to contribute, but is unsure of how this wiki will work.

After logging in, just click EasyEdit on this page, and you can experiment with the wiki editor without worrying about messing up someone's entry.

Try making a header

and maybe add a link, image or a video...

Code of Conduct

lmantel — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:23:47 CDT

To foster the best possible experience for all, the Open Access Wiki community respectfully requests that its visitors and contributors honor this code of conduct. Failure to follow these rules will result in a deletion of your comment and/or content.

(1) Play nicely with others

Respect your peers — Treat others and their contributions with respect and foster considerate dialogue.
Do not use offensive language — Inappropriate, crude, or abusive language is not acceptable.
Remember, there are no stupid questions— Everyone’s input is welcomed and honored. “Flaming” others or demeaning their participation won’t help build this community.
Report inappropriate behavior — Remove and/or report to the moderators disrespectful or provocative content, but refrain from seeking vigilante justice.

(2) Act in good faith

Don’t pilfer material — Don’t publish content to which you have no rights.
It’s about you, but not about YOU — This site exists to support an organic and communal body of information. Shameless self-promotion and hawking of wares are not allowed.

(3) Promote the community spirit

Use the Moderators as a resource — Reach out to the Moderators for guidance or advice on how best to leverage the site. They are there to help.
Share the experience — Be an ambassador of the community by enrolling others in the discussion, sponsoring a good debate, and setting a good, collaborative example.

For a more exhaustive list of legal do’s and don’ts, refer to the site’s Terms & Conditions.

Business Models

lmantel — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:31:39 CDT

by Just de Leeuwe

Introduction
The Open Access movement has passed beyond the pioneering phase. Almost 230 organizations, including the TU Delft, have now endorsed and signed the Berlin Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, which lays down the basic principles of Open Access. In this international declaration (initiated by the German Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), many universities in and outside Europe express their intention to publish all their academic articles via open access, a facility that opens up the results of publicly-funded research to anyone interested via online databases, free of charge. Practical solutions to ensure success have been developed at both national and international level. Academic information will now be more accessible than ever before. The financiers of academic researchers are staunch supporters of Open Access. More and more financiers (a recent addition being the European Commission), are making a stand against the traditional subscription models that confine access to academic research results to a limited group. Financiers are demanding that publishers provide unrestricted access to academic findings, with due regard for an embargo period where necessary. The publishers themselves are also doing their best to modify their business models in line with the changing world of Open Access. They are experimenting with models in which the publishing costs are transferred from the organization (often the libraries) to the authors of academic research. The Open Access publishing model is one of the two most important moves within the Open Access movement in terms of achieving the goals: setting up Open Access Repositories is the other.

Repositories
Open Access Repositories, such as the TU Delft Repository, are used for storing and providing access to dissertations, articles and conference proceedings. Repositories do not organize peer reviews, but provide access to academic material. The repositories store academic articles that have not yet undergone peer review (the so-called 'pre-prints'), and articles that have already passed through the peer review ('post-prints') or both. These archives can be organized and maintained at the level of the individual organizations, universities, laboratories, but they can also be arranged so that they cover entire disciplines, such as physics, economics or history. Authors are free to deposit 'pre-prints' themselves without having to ask permission, and the vast majority of publishers already allow authors to deposit the 'post-print' in the repositories too. Archives that endorse the metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative are interchangeable, so readers are able find everything in the archives via popular search engines such as Google, without having to know exactly which archive to access or where they are. There is a range of open-source software for setting up repositories that satisfy the OAI-metadata requirements, and the number of people using the facility world-wide would seem to be rising sharply. At national level, the Dutch repositories have experienced considerable growth. Starting in 2003 with the DAREnet, the joint Open Access database of the Dutch universities now provides access to 120,000 online publications, including 14,000 Theses. On a world-wide scale, OAIster, the most comprehensive database of the Open Access Repositories, contains 11,000.000 objects emanating from more than 750 organisations.

Open Access journals
Unlike the repositories, Open Access journals have a direct link with the organization and supervision of peer review. They also have a task in making the articles, after they have withstood this quality assessment, freely accessible without charge. The costs of organizing and supervising peer review, making the manuscripts suitable, and keeping their internet servers in the air are their own responsibility. Open Access journals are de facto and therefore not free of charge, but they do not recoup the costs from their readers.

Directory of Open Access Journals-DOAJ
Almost half of the Open Access journals are fully subsidized by a university or a learned society. Most of these journals can be found in the Directory of Open Access Journals, which is hosted by the University of Lund in Sweden and which currently contains 2,600 titles. The titles in DOAJ are of the same quality as journals that are purchased as paid models after quality controls and peer review. The journals on this platform that receive sufficient funding are able to waive the author’s contribution. Other sources of income such as advertising and other services can sometimes help to distribute the journal free of charge.

Business model
Established publishers with commercial interests deploy a different Open Access model. The principle in which the publisher asks the author for a contribution as part of the research funding (which is reimbursed by the university or the research fund in practically all cases) is becoming increasingly popular. Open Access journals asking for a contribution from the author will usually grant an exemption to authors who can prove that they are unable to pay or recoup the costs elsewhere. A number of institutes and consortia stipulate (quantity) discount on the author’s contribution, and some Open Access publishers offer institutional ‘membership', so that individual authors attached to the institution in question are not faced with a request for a financial contribution if they want to publish in one of the publisher’s journals. These business models are still in their infancy when it comes to finding sources of income for Open Access. Only a very limited number of publishers currently have a working business model. The majority are still at the exploratory stage. Non-profit organisation Public Library of Science is already working with an open access model. The best-known representative from the commercial publishers is without doubt BioMed Central. Many large commercial publishers are hesitant and sceptical about replacing the business models that they still consider to be so profitable. The academic journal market has always deviated from conventional economic market forces. The monopoly of the publishers prevented supply corresponding with demand. As a result, in practice the relationship with customers became disparate. This can be seen in the years of systematic price rises for the journals, which far outstripped the rate of inflation. Their unique position discourages many publishers from changing their lucrative business models. The model in which the author pays for his/her inclusion reduces the publisher’s power and control over the publication cycle. There is little doubt that increasing pressure from the clients (universities), financiers, political circles and the authors themselves will alter the publishers’ position, but it is currently difficult to predict how fast this will happen and what the long-term implications of the changes will be.

TU Delft Library Users' Foundation

kclavel — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:37:38 CST

TU Delft Users’ Foundation
The TU Delft Users’ Foundation represents the Library’s external customers. The Foundation aims to back the interests of external customers, especially when it comes to Library product and service development. The Foundation also strives to foster communication among users by organizing activities. The Users’ Foundation was established in 1987, evolving from the earlier Friends of the Delft College Library Association, which was founded in 1935. More info on TU Delft Library Users' Foundation

TU Delft Library

cberg — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:59:29 CST

Hub of Knowledge

The TU Delft Library is the hub of knowledge for technical and scientific information in the Netherlands. We support research and education within TU Delft and at the national level. We welcome everyone who is in search of technical or scientific information to our Central Library and the faculty libraries.
The Library is continually working to improve the quality of its information supply services. This means, for example, that we think about how we archive and supply digital information (also for the long term). We also think on new ways to communicate with our customers. A wiki might be a tool in this arena, therefore it is interesting for us to participate in this experiment.
More info on TU Delft Library

Open Access - Recently Updated Pages

Open Access Wiki

Open Access Wiki wants to become the place to be to read about and discuss open access in scientific communities

In the news:

Propositions for the public discussion

Give your opinion!

Scientific merit

- Open Access will improve the quality of scientific publications. - Peer review is guaranteed in an Open Access publishing model.- A journal’s “impact factor” will no longer be relevant; an article will be judged on its own citation rating.

Accessibility

- Open Access will be analogous to Open Source.- Open Access will make intermediaries or document delivery services obsolete.- Governments should ensure maximum accessibility of the results of publicly funded research.

Cost structure

- Publishers’ pay-per-view model will demonstrate that there is only a limited market for a small number of widely read articles.- Authors will be prepared to pay for peer review and the publication of their research results.

What is Open Access Publishing?

About book worms and snakes in the grass: Open access deserves open debate

by Maria Heijne

About us

Contribute to this wiki

Events Calendar

open access conferences, events

News Archive

References

Read About Open Access

More references on del.icio.us

Good Practices

Symposium 2007

TU Delft Library Symposium, Thursday 19 April 2007, in Delft, The Netherlands

Presentations:

Open Access: heading for a difficult position or a pas-de-deux? About the accessibility and costs of scholarly information in digital form

Central question:

Propositions for the public discussion

About Open Access

Sandbox

Try making a header

Code of Conduct

(1) Play nicely with others

(2) Act in good faith

(3) Promote the community spirit

Business Models

by Just de Leeuwe

TU Delft Library Users' Foundation

TU Delft Library

Hub of Knowledge

- Open Access will improve the quality of scientific publications.
- Peer review is guaranteed in an Open Access publishing model.
- A journal’s “impact factor” will no longer be relevant; an article will be judged on its own citation rating.

- Open Access will be analogous to Open Source.
- Open Access will make intermediaries or document delivery services obsolete.
- Governments should ensure maximum accessibility of the results of publicly funded research.

- Publishers’ pay-per-view model will demonstrate that there is only a limited market for a small number of widely read articles.
- Authors will be prepared to pay for peer review and the publication of their research results.