Selected OASPA 2024 quotes

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Selected OASPA 2024  quotes 

Hannah Heckner-Swain, Silverchair:
"OA content accounted for 48% of all scholarly articles in 2023. Overall market sizing of the scholarly publishing market in 2023 was around 10.8 BML USD. In 2022 OA business garnered about 15% of total revenue, aeons 1.6 billion USD."

Devika Madalli, INFLIBNET and OA India Forum:
"Transfer of rights from authors to publishers was gradual Commercial publishers developed a three-fold strategy:

1. Rather then focusing on the publication of scientific news and short research reports, they sought to be publishers of detailed primary research papers.
2. They focused on selling to institutions in contrast with the learned society tradition of giving copies of journals to many universities and libraries gratis...The new players recognised that institutions could be charged more per subscription than individual readers.
3. They focused on international market."

Devika Madalli, INFLIBNET and OA India Forum:
"There is no dedicated metrics on how to assess how open a journal is or how much an author has published as an Open Access author. Open Content Metrics, illustrating the calculation of O-factor as a measure of of the contribution of an author in open access is necessary."
" This is not a call for action, but a call for disruption: disruption in the way knowledge is published and distributed. Disruption in citations and counting scientific contributions. Disruption in Evaluation of research"

Maurice York, Big Ten Academic Alliance
"In 2013 the relation of Open Access vs Non Open Access was 40 % vs. 60%. In less then 10 years (2022) it changed to 60% vs. 40%"

Christina Lembrecht, De Gruyter-Brill:
Using the term "sponsored journals" for Diamond journals.
80% of all De Grill :-) journals should belong to "Subscribe to Open" program by 2028. If a sufficient number of libraries renew their subscriptions, the publisher converts the journal to open access.

Joe Deville, Lancaster University / Open Book Collective / Mattering Press:
The term para-academic: "including those who not working in academia, but still want to be a part of the discussion". I have to admit I like "participatory science" better.