The event was held on February 19, 2013. Around 110 people participated.

Open Access (OA) supporting activities in the areas of high-energy physics and mathematics by libraries are just starting. We shall overview the activities of arXiv.org and SCOAP³, and consider how libraries/librarians work and collaborate with researchers on OA. We also generate additional ideas to supplement aiming to be the better understanding. We welcome contributions from all the participants. Interpreter services will be provided.

Title

Speaker

13:00-13:05

Opening Greeting

13:05-13:25

Mini Lecture about Open Access

[Abstract]

Yasuko Shibata
(Hitotsubashi University Library)

13:25-14:45

arXiv: Organizational and Business Perspectives on Open Access to Information

[Abstract]

Oya Y. Rieger
(Cornell University Library)

14:45-15:00

Break

15:00-15:25

Report of Activities of SCOAP³ Task Force: Towards Japanese University Libraries' Joining SCOAP³

[Abstract]

Hisao Sunaoshi
(Tokyo Institute of Technology Library)

15:25-15:50

Open-access Viewed by a Researcher

[Abstract]

Norisuke Sakai
(Tokyo Woman's Christian University)

15:50-16:50

Panel Discussion

[[ Moderator ]]
* Satoru Kinoshita
(Information Processing and Management Group, University Library, The University of Tokyo)

[[ Panelist ]]
* Oya Y. Rieger
(Cornell University Library)
* Hisao Sunaoshi
(Tokyo Institute of Technology Library)
* Norisuke Sakai
(Tokyo Woman's Christian University)
          and others

16:50-17:00

Closing

Yasuko Shibata has been working for Hitotsubashi University Library since 2007. She worked as a trainee in JUSTICE Secretariat for seven months in 2011, back to the university library, and now is in charge of serial section since 2010.

Oya Y. Rieger is the associate university librarian for digital scholarship and preservation services at Cornell University Library. She oversees the Library's digitization, repository development, digital preservation, electronic publishing, and e-scholarship initiatives with a focus on needs assessment, requirements analysis, business modeling, and information policy development. She has leadership in various open access initiatives that have explored and promoted new models of scholarly communication. As arXiv's Program Director, she oversees the repository, which is internationally acknowledged as a pioneering open-access distribution service for physics, mathematics, computer science, and related disciplines. Also included in her program area is Project Euclid, which is jointly managed by Cornell University Library and Duke University Press to provide affordable access to high-impact, peer-reviewed mathematics and statistics scholarly materials. Rieger has a B.S. in Economics (METU), an M.S. in Public Administration (University of Oklahoma), and an M.S. in Information Systems (Columbia University). She received her Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Cornell University.

Group Leader of the Information Management Group, Library Division.
He has worked for Tokyo Institute of Technology Library and then for Library of Education, National Institute for Educational Policy Research. He is now back in Tokyo Institute of Technology and working on materials acquisitions including e-resources.

The speaker's specialty is theoretical particle physics. He has received his Ph.D. in science in 1972 from the University of Tokyo. He worked at the Max-Planck Institute, the Rutherford Laboratory, Tohoku University, KEK, and then Tokyo Institute of Technology, before joining Tokyo Woman's Christian University in 2008. He has been studying supersymmetric theories, superstring theories, solitons and their nonperturbative effects, aiming at unified theories beyond the standard model. He has been the first editor-in-chief of Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP), which started as the open-access journal in 2012. PTEP is published by the Physical Society of Japan in collaboration with Oxford University Press as the successor of Progress of Theoretical Physics (PTP), to include experimental as well as theoretical physics, and covers mainly particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, cosmology, beam physics and instrumentation.

What is Open Access? Aiming to help attendees better understand and have a common view, I would like to overview Open Access and explain its details from the view point of types, financial basis and so on.

Since its launch in 1991, arXiv has achieved iconic status as an effective online distribution system and is often cited to illustrate digital repositories' potential role in transforming scholarly communication. One of the premises of arXiv has been making science more democratic by allowing for the rapid worldwide dissemination of scientific findings. In 2010, the Cornell University Library adopted a new business model to broaden the funding base for arXiv.org. Although this community-based interim model has garnered strong support, it also generated a range of questions in regard to the sustainability of open access online resources with a global user base such as arXiv. Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For open access information systems, sustainability entails long-term maintenance of responsibility, which has technical, socioeconomic, policy, and business dimensions and encompasses the concept of stewardship. Open access initiatives must have clearly defined mandates, governance structures, and strategic and business plans to reflect a commitment to the long-term stewardship of such information services.

SCOAP³ (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) is the international consortium which facilitates Open Access publishing in High Energy Physics. The consortium aims to change a traditional subscription-based model into the new business model that by re-directing subscription money, libraries make a financial contribution to journal publishing cost decided through CERN's tendering procedure. I will report the situation of Japanese university libraries and activities of Task Force for joining SCOAP³.

Open-access in the broad sense is defined as the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to research results. On the other hand, the unrestricted access should be possible to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles in the narrow sense of open-access. Open-access in the broad sense is almost achieved by the preprint arXiv.org already. It is remarkable that the advent of preprint arXiv.org in 1990 has drastically changed the everyday life of research practice. Open-access in the narrow sense is yet to be realized by the open-access journals. The acute problem today is to create a stable model of publishing open-access journals. SCOAP³ is initiated by CERN as a new possibility of international system to sustain the publication of open-access journals financially. It will affect the publication and research world-wide. The speaker will consider issues and possibilities of such an endeavor from the viewpoint of a researcher.