ALPSP and SSP Jointly Organised Seminar





Open Access: does it really work in practice?


Washington DC, Monday 8 November 2004



Chair: Bob Kelly, American Physical Society

Venue: American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington
DC, USA



The Open Access journal publishing model - where there is no charge for
access to primary research papers - is being strongly hyped by its
supporters. But many learned societies and other publishers are anxious
about its effects - will they be forced to go down this path? And if
they do, what will the consequences be?



Open Access is not all or nothing; there is a spectrum, from delayed
Open Access (making backfiles available after a - relatively short -
period), via partial or hybrid Open Access (where some primary research
articles, but not all, are immediately freely available) to full,
immediate Open Access. Publishers may wish to test the waters before
deciding whether or not to go all the way. Whichever variant is chosen,
the costs of publication have to be, to a greater or lesser extent,
funded from sources other than subscriptions - either by payments on
behalf of authors (e.g. from research or institutional funds) or from
third-party sources such as grants.



In this seminar, hosted jointly by the Association of Learned and
Professional Society Publishers and the Society for Scholarly
Publishing, we learn from the real-life experience of publishers who are
actually testing various different variants of Open Access. These
publishers will share with us what really happened - to their finances,
to their submissions, to their citations - when they tried to adopt
their own form of Open Access.



>From the experiences shared by fellow publishers, from the data
collected more widely by OSI, and from the experience of the University
of British Columbia in providing practical tools to enable partial or
full Open Access, we hope to help our audience to answer the question
'Does it work?' and, thus, to consider 'Might it work for us?'



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Programme



09.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE



10.00 Introduction from the Chair
Bob Kelly, American Physical Society



10.20 Overview - what's Open Access all about?
Peter Suber, Earlham College



10.50 The economics of Open Access
Mark McCabe, Georgia Institute of Technology



11.20 COFFEE



11.50 The effects of Open Access: preliminary results of
ALPSP/AAAS/HighWire study
Cara Kaufman, Kaufman-Wills LLC



12.20 Questions and discussion



12.30 LUNCH



13.30 Real-life experience with models of Open Access:



            Delayed Open Access
            Ray Everingham, American Society for Cell Biology



            Partial (or 'hybrid') immediate Open Access
          Margaret Reich, American Physiological Society



            Full, immediate Open Access
          John Hawley, Society for Clinical Investigation



15.00 Practicalities of moving to Open Access
John Willinsky, University of British Columbia



15.30 Panel discussion



16.30 TEA, COFFEE AND CLOSE



This event is sponsored by: American Physiological Society, Open Society
Institute, Public Knowledge Project - University of British Columbia,
Science and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest - AAAS



Seminar fees, including lunch:  ALPSP/SSP member $249, Non-member $399



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