Different styles of Open Access andtheir value against information
explosion
Jeong-Wook SeoSeoul National University Medical Library
JW Lee center for Global Medicine

Open Access is?

Open Access is??
• Philosophy: Sharing knowledge• Agreement: Free use for all• Economy: Authors or somebody pay
costs• Technology: Publishing articles on line
• Practice: Self archiving or Open accessjournal• Value!!

Information Explosion• Fact? Expansion more than what?

– Growth of information– Information grows faster than research/knowledge
production• What?

– New production– Copied or fabricated production• How?

– Better availability– Increased costExplosion of scholarly information

Growth of Amount of Information measured
by No. of Articles indexed in WoS or Pubmed
16,000,000

14,000,000

12,000,000

10,000,000

8,000,000

6,000,000

4,000,000

2,000,000

0WoS

PubmedExplosion of scholarly information

Journal crisis !  ?
Graph 4

Expenditure Trends
in ARL Libraries, 1986-2010
Serial Expenditures(+379%)

395%
375%

325%
LibraryMaterials(+289%)% Change Since 1986

275%

225%
TOTAL
Expenditures(+172%)
TotalSalaries(+158%)
OperatingExpenditures (+110%)

175%

125%

CPI (+99%)

75%

MonographExpenditures (+73%)

25%-25%
1986

1989

1992

1995

1998

2001

2004

Source: ARL Statistics 2009-10 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.

2007

2010

Explosion of scholarly information

No of SCI articles & % contribution of articles in 1996-2011

by 1-5 Countries USA, China, UK, Germany, Japanand Korea
US: 1.3 times increase

US: 33.7%  28.8%

China: 11 times increase

China: 1.4%  9.9%

Who gets benefits
from information explosion?
• Publishers?
• Authors?
• Users of information?

What kinds of additional
information are beneficial?
• Covert unpublished information• Rare information• Information of poor quality

Consortia / HINARI
Good

Quality of articles

OpenAccess
Journals

Subscribed
JournalsGrayliterature
Regional
Regional
journals
journals

PoorLow

Cost of USERSHighMembership / Public support
GoodOpen
AccessJournals

Quality of articles

Subscribed
JournalsGrayliterature
Regional
Regional
journals
journals

Poor
Low

Cost of AUTHORSHighAggregators and Indexers• Journals aggregators & Indexers:– Ovid, Science Direct, Springer online– DOAJ– PMC, APAMED central– Koreamed Synapse, J-stage, CNKI, MongolMed• Articles aggregators: Public or private– PMC– Institutional repositories• Articles indexers:– WPRIM, PubMed– KoreaMed,– Google scholar

China National Knowledge InfrastructureHigh

Value for USERS

Subscribed
Journals

Low
Poor

Accessibility (Index + Full text)

GoodAggregators and Indexers• Journals aggregators & Indexers:– Ovid, Science Direct, Springer online– DOAJ– PMC, APAMED central– Koreamed Synapse, J-stage, CNKI, MongolMed• Articles aggregators: Public or private– PMC– Institutional repositories• Articles indexers:– WPRIM, PubMed, KoreaMed,– Google scholar

Production divide vs Accessibility divideMedline
LegenJournals
d1 - 10
11 - 50
51 - 100
101 - 500
501 - 1700
No Data

WPROEUROhttp://www.wprim.org/

WPRIM Articles / Journals(July 2013)

How are articles accessed better?
• Journals access– Subscription based access• On-line vs. off-line access– Open access• Open access in the narrow sense (online)• Free access either online or offline• Articles access– Hybrid models– Repositories, institutional or subject based– Borrowed access: document delivery services

High quality PRODUCTION of XML based full text article

Developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
DSPACE (www.dspace.org) is a software to build open
access repositories - for academic and non-profit
organizations . The software is free/downloadable fromthis site, can be installed ‘out of the box’ and customized
locally.

From this DSPACE page, you candownload the software anddocumentation plus learn about
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Inequitable exposure of published articles:
Rare articles by Laos authors is exposed /used less than Japanese articles.

Equitable search / access /production?
• Access to global information: improvedby HINARI• Search for regional information: WPRIM• Access to regional information: APAMED
Central + Repositories + Document
Delivery Services• Production for availability online onregional information: Repositories

OPEN ACCESS• Open Access Journal (Gold Road)– Publishing online by XML technology– BioMedCentral, MedKnow, Public Library of Science (PLoS)– Directory of Open Access Journals (www.DOAJ.org)– "low-hanging fruit" of journals, "higher-hanging fruit" of books(HIFA2015)• Institutional Repository (Green Road)– Dspace, S-space, Laos-space– Directory of Open Access Repositories (www.opendoar.org)– Journal articles and gray literature• Document Delivery Services (“Gray Road”)–––

Based on WPRIM and related databases
WPRIM library network
Both royalty-free and royalty-producing literature