Open Access: A Library Service Provider’s Perspective Jess Wallis, MLS | STEM Product Manager 1 | www.ebsco.com
EBSCO brings high-quality Who are we? research databases to academic, school/public, corporate, medical, and government libraries Staff includes many librarians, veterans of the publishing industry, thought leaders Partner with libraries to create tools like FOLIO 2 | www.ebsco.com
We want the best resources Why EBSCO cares about Open Access Publishing industry and libraries are currently changing in response to OA trends How can we help libraries and publishers deal with what’s coming? 3 | www.ebsco.com
There is high- quality, peer- State of OA at reviewed scholarly OA EBSCO now content in databases We have convened a task force to look at future of OA 4 | www.ebsco.com
26 16 99 WHO 3 70 Library Directors 80 Individual Contributors or 6 Middle Managers SUBSCRIPTION FACTORS OA EDUCATION About a third are # of Gold OA resources in database OA LEARNING responsible for OA the least important factor when education. Top 4 ways librarians subscribing learn about OA trends: 30% do not feel very Colleagues, scholarly Cost is most important, followed comfortable with teaching articles, conferences, by # of peer-reviewed journals colleagues or students listservs regardless of OA status . about OA resources 5 | www.ebsco.com
Many countries in EU With more OA Students, faculty, other Starting with pre-print and South America mandates, more researchers, librarians servers in STEM now have partial or full papers are being just want content they disciplines, the field has OA mandates, either published in an open can find. grown to law and even already in place or to format, either pre-print humanities. be realized in the near repository or journal. future. More funders also mandate OA publishing for funded papers Pre-print More OA More OA Desire for servers on the mandated published discoverability rise 6 | www.ebsco.com
OA Uncertainty Librarian Publisher • How can we find it all? • How will this affect our revenue? • What’s good? • What is the impact on the foll- • What’s predatory? access journal? New model? • Article Processing Charges • Who is paying for publication? • Where’s the best place to publish? 7 | www.ebsco.com
Why is SciHub model so popular? Open Questions How can EBSCO bring same experience of SciHub to researchers? What are they now bringing to the game and what are we doing that’s now not the best for users anymore? How can we use metrics to prove value of OA? 8 | www.ebsco.com
PRODUCTS ADVOCACY New products that fill Making sure the market need for discoverability, knows the value of OA, convenience and how we support it SERVICES RESEARCH What’s really important to Widgets or apps that enhance accessibility librarians and and usage of OA researchers? 9 | www.ebsco.com
“Not only does EBSCO support DOAJ with a generous financial donation every year, their EBSCO Discovery Service and EBSCOhost platforms generate a lot more referrals to DOAJ than any other online platform. EBSCO’s strong support of both open access and open source make them unique among library vendors worldwide .” - DOAJ, 2017 10 | www.ebsco.com
Thank You Jess Wallis | STEM Product Manager jwallis@ebsco.com 978 356 6500 ext. 3655 11 | www.ebsco.com
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