You are invited to attend: The Facts about Open Access: Results from the ALPSP/AAAS/HighWire Study
Cara Kaufman, Co-founder of the Kaufman-Wills Group Monday 14 March 2005, 12-1pm E Content Theatre, Academic/STM wing, West Hall, Olympia, London Book Fair 2005 Abstract: This presentation will outline, for the first time, the results of one of the most important factual studies of Open Access which has taken place to date. Through surveys and in-depth interviews, the researchers investigated both the financial and the non-financial impact of different forms of Open Access. The findings cover such key issues as the detailed composition of the 1,325 DOAJ list of journals; the place of author-side payments in the revenues of Open Access journals; publishers' experience with their open access experiments; varying approaches author copyright and permissions; and the views and opinions of a wide variety of publishers. The study: To help augment the slim body of factual information on the subject, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, together with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and HighWire Press, funded a major study by Kaufman-Wills Group, LLC. The study's objective was to determine the impact of open access on scholarly journals' financial and non-financial factors. The study was conducted in two parts. In phase 1, the researchers surveyed two important groups rarely if ever surveyed before 1) 248 'Full Open Access Journals' as listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals; and 2) 85 'Delayed Open Access Journals' hosted by HighWire Press and subscribing to the DC Principles. In Phase 2, the researchers interviewed 22 non-profit and for-profit publishers of scholarly journals of all sizes, resulting in a series of fascinating case reports highlighting the publishers' access and business models, experiments, perspectives, and predictions. Speaker biography: Cara Kaufman is a co-founder of the Kaufman-Wills Group, LLC (www.kaufmanwills.com), a consultancy offering the scholarly publishing community a broad spectrum of services including strategic planning, publications development, process improvement, and market research. Kaufman-Wills' clients include the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Health Affairs/Project Hope, AAAS/Science Online, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Previously, Cara was executive director of an online publishing service at Wolters Kluwer; publisher of scholarly periodicals such as The Lancet and the American Heart Association journals; and executive editor at Williams & Wilkins, developing new biomedical publications. This presentation is free and is part of the seminar programme in the e Content Theatre at the London Book Fair 2005. You need a pass for LBF at Olympia. Suzy Fotheringham Membership and Advertising Coordinator Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Tel: +44 (0) 20 8351 1658 E-mail: memb...@alpsp.org ALPSP Website: www.alpsp.org