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Committed to making the world’s
scientific and medical literature
a public resource
Donna Okubo, Institutional Relations Manager
Cheaper, Faster, Quicker
 Overview
of Open Access
 Open Access:
 Corporate
 Adding
What's New
Sector and Open Access
Value to the Research Team!
Definition: Budapest Open Access
Initiative (BOAI)
“
free availability on the public internet,
permitting any users to read, download,
copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the
full texts of these articles, crawl them for
indexing, pass them as data to software,
or use them for any other lawful purpose,
without financial, legal, or technical
barriers other than those inseparable from
gaining access to the internet itself. . . “
Open Access
Movement
Policy Initiatives at a Federal Level

NIH Policy: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
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CURES Act:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/0102-06.htm
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American Innovation and Competitiveness Act of
2006 http://www.thescientist.com/news/display/23575/requires
The Federal Research
Public Access Act 2006
Wellcome Trust
 New
policy introduced Oct 1, 2005
 Provides additional funds for authors
whose work is published in OA journals
 Papers must be deposited in PMC
 Must be publicly accessible within 6
months
The Ellison Medical Foundation
Specifically desires that all research results shall be
made available to the public as promptly as
possible in keeping with the foundation's
commitment to free and open publication of
research results to both validate findings and to
allow other scientists to further advance work in the
field. The foundation recognizes and endorses the
obligation of awardee institutions to take steps to
bring the practical applications of its research
forward to public use and benefit…
Publisher Initiatives - Hybrids
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Blackwell
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665 Societies, 805 journals
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Online Open (80 journals)
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Oxford University Press
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180 journals (2/3 with societies)
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Nucleic Acids Research fully OA from 2005
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Oxford Open (42 journals and rising)
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Springer
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Open Choice (all 1200+ journals)
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Open Access Option
The Landscape
is Constantly Changing
What is in it
for Us!
The Corporate
Sector
Benefits of Open Access Journals
 Cheaper
 Faster
 Quicker
Your Companies Marketing: Goals
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Promote Company and Product: Be the First!
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Market Product with a Broad Reach as Cheap
as Possible
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Positive Company Image
OA sets users free to make less common uses -without asking permission and without paying a fee.
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The World Health Organization Puts PLoS Article on
CD for Distribution
A neglected diseases article from PLoS Medicine,
"Rapid-Impact Interventions: How a Policy of Integrated
Control for Africa’s Neglected Tropical Diseases Could
Benefit the Poor" is being put on a CD that the World
Health Organization (WHO) is distributing free of charge.
The target audience for the CD includes Ministries of
Health, district and hospital managers; management,
medical, nursing and paramedical training institutions;
and non-governmental organizations in developing
countries, particularly where Internet access remains
limited or non-existent.
Adding Value
to the
Research
Team
“As data mining research progresses
and as we learn more about the nature
and the structure of scientific
knowledge, we will be able to extract
more complex and subtle information…”
 Data
Mining is a
Tough Job!
Open Access Journals
Makes it Easy!
Contributing to
your Companies
Team:
You are
Cheaper, Faster,
Quicker!
Open Access Journals
PLoS Biology
PLoS Medicine
PLoS Computational Biology
PLoS Genetics
PLoS Pathogens
PLoS Clinical Trials
Reference
 Open Access
Overview – Peter Suber
 PLoS
 Directory
of Open Access Journals
 Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition SPARC
 Federal Research Public Access Act 2006
 Donna
Okubo, [email protected]