Liz Allen's Posts - Open Access Week2024-03-29T06:24:55ZLiz Allenhttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/LizAllen430http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2991349091?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blog/feed?user=3jmh78q3rt05l&xn_auth=noScientific Knowledge For Everyone - first OAW event from nonprofit publisher Annual Reviewstag:legacy.openaccessweek.org,2021-10-13:5385115:BlogPost:2908302021-10-13T01:12:35.000ZLiz Allenhttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/LizAllen430
<p>When I joined <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ann</a><a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ual Reviews</a><a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"></a> 5 years ago as a PLOS alum, I was hopeful (but not certain) that we could create a business model to convert our subscription journals, which publish expert reviews in the life, biomedical, physical, and social sciences, to open access.…</p>
<p>When I joined <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ann</a><a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ual Reviews</a><a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a> 5 years ago as a PLOS alum, I was hopeful (but not certain) that we could create a business model to convert our subscription journals, which publish expert reviews in the life, biomedical, physical, and social sciences, to open access. You can chart our <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/introducing-knowable-magazine-launching-with-a-cc-license-during" target="_blank" rel="noopener">progress</a> <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/developing-a-new-oa-funding-model-called-subscribe-to-open-s2o-oa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">towards</a> <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/annual-reviews-journey-toward-open-access-the-evolution-of-a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open</a> <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/open-with-purpose-empowering-functioning-democracies-through" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on this blog</a>. </p>
<p>Today, that model, called <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/page/subscriptions/subscribe-to-open" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe to Open</a><a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/page/subscriptions/subscribe-to-open" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a>, is a reality. We've piloted it on eight of our journals and there's even a <a href="https://subscribetoopencommunity.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Community of Practice</a> for wider publisher adoption. We want to recognize this milestone by fully participating in Open Access Week and are hosting the following event which we <a href="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/OAScienceEveryone?utm_campaign=OAWeek&utm_source=AR_RG_list&utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">invite you to join</a>. </p>
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<p>Tune in to three one-to-one conversations, exploring issues ranging from the societal — such as the need for scientific findings to inform sound policy responses to the pandemic and climate change — to the personal, through stories from the speakers’ working lives where unlocking knowledge helped guide individual decisions or spark an appreciation of the natural world. </p>
<p>The participants are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Harmit Singh Malik, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Editorial Committee Member of the <em>Annual Review of Virology</em></li>
<li>Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Central European University, Budapest, Editorial Committee Member of the <em>Annual Review of Environment and Resources</em></li>
<li>Rosie Mestel, Executive Editor of<span> </span><em>Knowable Magazine</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Moderated by: Richard Gallagher, President and Editor-In-Chief, Annual Reviews.</p>
<p>We look forward to welcoming you on October 27 2021. <a href="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/OAScienceEveryone?utm_campaign=OAWeek&utm_source=AR_RG_list&utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sign up today</a>. <a href="=https://www.crowdcast.io/e/OAScienceEveryone?utm_campaign=OAWeek&utm_source=AR_RG_list&utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a></p>Open with purpose – empowering functioning democracies through expert knowledgetag:legacy.openaccessweek.org,2020-10-20:5385115:BlogPost:2050192020-10-20T15:00:00.000ZLiz Allenhttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/LizAllen430
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Nonprofit publisher <a href="http://www.annualreviews.org" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Annual Reviews</a> (where I work) has developed a new business model for open access, called <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/page/subscriptions/subscribe-to-open" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Subscribe to Open</a> (S2O). Today,…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Nonprofit publisher <a href="http://www.annualreviews.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Annual Reviews</a> (where I work) has developed a new business model for open access, called <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/page/subscriptions/subscribe-to-open" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe to Open</a> (S2O). Today, <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/pb-assets/assets/documents/press-release/AREN-ARNS-S2O-announcement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we announce</a> the successful completion of the S2O pilot program, in which 5 Annual Reviews journals have converted their 2020 volumes to open access.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My previous blog posts for OA week have charted the development of nonprofit Annual Reviews from a toll access publisher of 51 review journals to an organization that is focused on increasing the public benefit that can be derived from its treasure trove of expert knowledge, painstakingly built over nearly 90 years.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/introducing-knowable-magazine-launching-with-a-cc-license-during">In 2017</a>, I covered the launch of Knowable Magazine published under a CC BY-ND License. In <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/developing-a-new-oa-funding-model-called-subscribe-to-open-s2o-oa">2018</a> I outlined the early development of the pilot S2O program. In <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/annual-reviews-journey-toward-open-access-the-evolution-of-a">2019</a>, I was able to share the details of how S2O could work if current institutional subscribers got behind it (spoiler: they did).<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8039273262?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8039273262?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-left" width="305" height="170"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This year, I am able to report that the librarian community came through for S2O. We finished our first cycle of journal conversions today, 20 October 2020. You can find our <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/pb-assets/assets/documents/press-release/AREN-ARNS-S2O-announcement.pdf">Press Release here</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>How did this happen?</strong> Librarians committed to their subscriptions and, in doing so, to Open Access. With their support in the form of subscription renewals, we were able to convert the 2020 volumes (and make the back volumes free to read) for the following journals:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Annual Review of Political Science</em> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Annual Review of Public Health</em> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Annual Review of Cancer Biology</em> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Annual Review of Environment and Resources</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science</em></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What happened to usage when we did this?</strong> Not surprisingly, usage increased dramatically, but the audience also broadened, not just geographically, with more low and middle-income countries, but also in terms of the range of people who could now read the articles. We saw increased readership in banks, offices of education, defense, treasury, patent and trademark, airlines, rural health clinics, and prisons.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What else became easier?</strong> Open content travels further, especially if you give it a helping hand. This year, Annual Reviews hired a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elysia_(AR)">Wikipedian-In-Residence</a> to increase the citations to our reviews in the Encyclopedia. By focusing on adding relevant articles from our S2O journals, we were able to offer interested users a deep dive into reviews that were previously closed to them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Finally, other publishers, funders, subscription agents, and librarians have also joined the effort to encourage adoption of the Subscribe to Open model. Together they have formed the <a href="https://subscribetoopencommunity.org/">Subscribe to Open Community of Practice</a>. This site lists all their current members, more are always welcome. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">If you believe, as we do, that the theme of this year’s Open Access Week, “open with purpose”, means empowering functioning democracies by enabling citizens to gain access to, and a working understanding of, research, then 2020, by every objective measure a terrible year, is not entirely lost. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We wish everyone a virtual and safe OA Week 2020.</span></p>Annual Reviews’ journey toward open access: the evolution of a nonprofit missiontag:legacy.openaccessweek.org,2019-10-21:5385115:BlogPost:1854222019-10-21T17:17:56.000ZLiz Allenhttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/LizAllen430
<p>OA Week has always meant a great deal to me personally because I helped to create the first ever event during my tenure at PLOS. For the last couple of years, I’ve posted my <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/introducing-knowable-magazine-launching-with-a-cc-license-during" rel="nofollow">annual</a><span> …</span></p>
<p>OA Week has always meant a great deal to me personally because I helped to create the first ever event during my tenure at PLOS. For the last couple of years, I’ve posted my <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/introducing-knowable-magazine-launching-with-a-cc-license-during">annual</a><span> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/developing-a-new-oa-funding-model-called-subscribe-to-open-s2o-oa">personal</a><span> </span>perspective on OA Week here.</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3672933257?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3672933257?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="338" class="align-left"/></a>This year, I want to share what happened when my employer, nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews (AR), asked itself the question “open for whom?” and how the answer changed our mission which is<span> </span><em>synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society.</em></p>
<p>The addition of the three words “<em>benefit of society</em>” to our mission gave rise to programs that seek to provide equity in knowledge because content behind a paywall can only be read by those who can afford a subscription.</p>
<p>Finding transitional business models to support resources such as the commissioned reviews that AR publishes, isn’t simple. AR invites experts to synthesize primary research, and commissioned content is not suited to APCs. Funder mandated OA excludes reviews, so AR’s choice to adopt a new business model created in support of OA (Subscribe to Open) is an exciting development, and the chance to introduce new audiences to our articles.</p>
<p>Here are three examples of initiatives from Annual Reviews that represent significant milestones on our OA journey:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.knowablemagazine.org/">Knowable Magazine</a>, launched in 2017 with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is a freely available (CC licensed) online publication that reports on established evidence across a variety of disciplines and makes scientific knowledge accessible to all. For those who want to take a deeper dive into the literature, free access to the HTML of relevant Annual Reviews articles is available.</p>
<p>Two additional programs include:</p>
<ul>
<li>The<span> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.annualreviews.org/journal/publhealth">Annual Review of Public Health</a><span> </span>(2017 and 2018 volumes) are Open Access with funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.annualreviews.org/page/subscriptions/subscribe-to-open">Subscribe to Open</a><span> </span>redirects library subscription budgets to the costs of making journals available to all, if all libraries participate. Five journals are included in the 2020 pilot for this new model including the Annual Review of Public Health.</li>
</ul>
<p>I am happy, as ever, to share this update for Open Access Week 2019 and wish everyone a good one.</p>
<p> </p>Developing a new OA funding model called Subscribe to Open (S2O) - OA week 2018tag:legacy.openaccessweek.org,2018-10-22:5385115:BlogPost:1758292018-10-22T17:48:12.000ZLiz Allenhttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/LizAllen430
<p>It's OA week once more - time to offer up my <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/introducing-knowable-magazine-launching-with-a-cc-license-during" rel="noopener" target="_blank">annual personal perspective</a> because for me, this week represents eleven years of commitment to our collective efforts to liberate knowledge. <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001479197?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" height="182" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001479197?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="364"></img></a></p>
<p>This time last year,…</p>
<p>It's OA week once more - time to offer up my <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/introducing-knowable-magazine-launching-with-a-cc-license-during" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annual personal perspective</a> because for me, this week represents eleven years of commitment to our collective efforts to liberate knowledge. <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001479197?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3001479197?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="364" class="align-full" height="182"/></a></p>
<p>This time last year, nonprofit Annual Reviews (where I work, following stints at PLOS and Nature) was about to launch <a href="https://knowablemagazine.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowable Magazine</a> under a CC license to broaden the reach of our expert reviews. This new kid on the schol comm bloc has gone from strength to strength and is regularly republished in the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-scientists-are-working-to-unlock-these-ve-puzzles-about-mothers-milk/2018/10/05/cf9a9c8c-c346-11e8-97a5-ab1e46bb3bc7_story.html?utm_term=.3580929b5555" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a> among other illustrious titles. </p>
<p>Today feels like a good moment to explain a new OA funding model that we're developming at Annual Reviews - called Subscribe to Open (S20). It will be introduced for a pilot subset of its journals for 2020. This program maintains existing library relationships and payments, with subscription revenue used to publish journals OA</p>
<p>The conventional business model that supports OA to many original research articles, the APC (Article Processing Charge), is not applicable to review content because it is invited. We can’t ask someone to write a review, no small undertaking, and also ask them or their institutions to pay for the privilege! Additionally, our content is not the primary output of grant funded research, rather we synthesize it. Therefore it does not fall under OA mandates. </p>
<p>The key features of <em>Subscribe to Open</em> for library participation include:</p>
<ul>
<li>A <strong>commitment</strong> to OA for a key scholarly resource;</li>
<li>Financial <strong>incentives</strong> for institutions to participate;</li>
<li>A <strong>sustainable</strong> long-term plan for OA journal publication; and</li>
<li>A process consistent with institutional <strong>procurement</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>A very happy OA week to one and all! </p>
<p></p>Introducing Knowable Magazine - launching with a CC license during OA Week 2017!tag:legacy.openaccessweek.org,2017-10-25:5385115:BlogPost:1643592017-10-25T02:30:00.000ZLiz Allenhttp://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/LizAllen430
<p>I wanted to offer a quick personal perspective on OA week. I've been involved since the very first one 10 years ago, when a team of us at PLOS (where I worked back in the day) brainstormed the logo in its distinctive color of orange largely because we could see the SF Giants stadium from our offices! I couldn't be prouder of how far the movement has come, so far indeed, that it seems more like a giant business than a grass roots effort to change the way science is communicated. I still…</p>
<p>I wanted to offer a quick personal perspective on OA week. I've been involved since the very first one 10 years ago, when a team of us at PLOS (where I worked back in the day) brainstormed the logo in its distinctive color of orange largely because we could see the SF Giants stadium from our offices! I couldn't be prouder of how far the movement has come, so far indeed, that it seems more like a giant business than a grass roots effort to change the way science is communicated. I still believe that this community spark lies at the heart of its success. </p>
<p>Although I moved on from PLOS, and joined another nonprofit, Annual Reviews (together with another PLOS alum, Katie Fleeman), it's a huge honor to continue to work at the forefront of making scientific knowledge more understandable and accessible. In this regard, I am happy to announce the arrival of a new digital publication, <i><a href="https://knowablemagazine.org/">Knowable Magazine</a>,</i> which launches this Thursday at the <a href="https://annualreviewsnews.org/2017/10/18/knowable-launch-wcsj17/" target="_blank">World Conference of Science Journalists</a> (#WCSJ17), October 26–30 in San Francisco and during Open Access Week 2017, October 23-29. </p>
<p>“The name <i>Knowable</i> reflects our belief in the power of the scientific process to reveal more about how the world works,” says Editor Eva Emerson. “We want to empower readers with this knowledge by making it more accessible and freely available.” Magazine articles are published under a CC BY-ND license. Review articles written by leading scholars from the 50 Annual Reviews journals serve as springboards for stories in <i>Knowable Magazine </i>and are also freely available for a limited time. </p>
<p>Our new digital magazine is supported by generous grants from the <a href="https://www.moore.org/">Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation</a> and the <a href="https://sloan.org/">Alfred P. Sloan Foundation</a>. To find out more, connect with <em>Knowable Magazine</em> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KnowableMagazine/">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/knowablemag">Twitter</a>. </p>