“One Year (Almost) with the Open Access Authors Fund”

Andrew Waller has self-archived his "One Year (Almost) with the Open Access Authors Fund" presentation in E-LIS.

Here's the abstract:

This presentation described the origin of and policies and procedures relating to the Open Access Authors Fund at the University of Calgary. The activities of the Fund in its first year were presented and discussed. Other Open Access activities at the University of Calgary were also briefly discussed.

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Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

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  1. 12 OA STATISTICS AND SOME CONCLUSIONS

    (full text: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/591-guid.html )

    #1:   The vast majority of current (peer-reviewed) journal articles are not OA (Open Access) (neither Green OA nor Gold OA ).

    #2:   The vast majority of journals are not Gold OA.

    #3:   The vast majority of journals are Green OA.

    #4:   The vast majority of citations are to the top minority of articles (the Pareto/Seglen 90/10 rule).

    #5:   The vast majority of journals (or journal articles) are not among the top minority of journals (or journal articles).

    #6:   The vast majority of the top journals are not Gold OA.

    #7:   The vast majority of the top journals are Green OA.

    #8:   The vast majority of article authors would comply willingly with a Green OA mandate from their institutions and/or funders.

    #9:   The vast majority of institutions and funders do not yet mandate Green OA.

    #10:   The vast majority of Gold OA journals are not paid-publication journals.

    #11:   The vast majority of the top Gold OA journals are paid-publication journals.

    #12:   The vast majority of institutions do not have the funds to subscribe to all the journals their users need.

    CONCLUSION 1: The fact that the vast majority of Gold OA journals are not paid-publication journals is not relevant if we are concerned about providing OA to the articles in the top journals.

    CONCLUSION 2: Green OA, mandated by institutions and funders, is the vastly underutilized means of providing OA.

    IMPLICATION: It is far more productive (of OA) for universities and funders to mandate Green OA than to fund Gold OA.

    Stevan Harnad
    American Scientist Open Access Forum

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