08/16/2021
Challenge the future
Delft University of Technology
Open Access Symposium
Opening & An editor-in-chief’s perspective
Why NOT Open Access?
In 2014, no-one would invent ‘closed access’ publishing or data
• Only reason why OA is not reality, is a lock-in effect:
1. Given that most prestigious journals are non-OA, why publish OA?
2. Given that no-one shares data, why should I?
• Can’t get out due to ‘social dilemma’:
1. Choices that are optimal for each individual (e.g. publish in non-OA outlets)…
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Regret in Traveler Decision Making
Why NOT Open Access? (II)
Non-OA classical example of a ‘social dilemma’Who can solve such a dilemma?
• Governments / institutions (VSNU, NWO, TU Delft, …)
• New rules, incentives to align individual behavior with societal goals
• Idealist individuals (you)
• Break free from the status quo (and create snowball effect)
Today, a bit of both: inspiring stories from
• TU Delft Library
Program
• Caspar Chorus, Editor-in-chief Open Access Journal EJTIR TBM
• Just de Leeuwe, Publication-advisor, Research Support TU Delft Library • John-Alan Pascoe, Phd-candidate,Aerospace Structures & Materials LR
• Nima Tolou, Assistant professor Precision and Microsystem Engineering 3ME
Koffiepauze 15m
• Pauline van Roosmalen, Researcher History of Arch. & Urban Planning BK • Paul Suijker, Projectmanager, Research Support TU Delft Library • Frank van der Hoeven, director of research BK
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Regret in Traveler Decision Making
EJTIR – an editor-in-chief’s
perspective
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research
• 2005: shift to Open Access, internet-based
• First in our field; neither authors no readers pay
• Since 2008 included in Scopus, since 2009 in JCR
• First and still only OA journal with IF in our field
• Sponsored by TU Delft
• In kind + funding from Transport Institute, TU Delft Library
How do I know going OA has been a good decision?
Because we are being actively courted by the big publishing houses
EJTIR – some numbers
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About 20,000 pageviews per year
• Not that much, if you think about it
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From all over the world, including China (4%) and India (5%)
• But still 25% from UK, NL, DE
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Impact factor: 0.214 0.674 1.224 1.023
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• About median in our field
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Submissions: ~2 per week + 8 special issues in preparation
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Regret in Traveler Decision Making
EJTIR – success factors
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Lean and mean publishing
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Local Edit. Board + Global Edit. Adv. Board
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Connection to strong brand name (TU Delft)
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Indexation in Scopus, JCR (chicken & egg)
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OA-trend: NWO, H2020, UK gov’t, etc.
A business proposition (part I)
Imagine: there are no publishers (“it isn’t hard to do”)
I propose to you a deal:
• You do your research, write the paper (paid for by tax-payers’ money)
• Your peers review your work (“”)
• You revise your paper (“”) • I format it and put it online
• I charge you and your colleagues 40 euro for access to the paper (paid for
by tax-payers’ money), and by doing so build the highest ROI-industry worldwide
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Regret in Traveler Decision Making
A business proposition (part II)
Imagine a world where everyone shares data (“it isn’t hard to do”)
I propose a deal to my peers and the government:
• You (gov’t) continue to pay for my datacollection • I continue to collect the data, do my research
• I share my results, but not the data; these I consider mine
• If you (my peers) want to use my data to replicate my results, or do new
research, I either say “No” or demand to be a co-author
