Events
Events
2016
 
The 1st SPARC Japan Seminar 2016
"Roads to Open Access for Japan"
Date&Time September 9, 2016 / 13:00-16:40
Place National Institute of Informatics, 12F 1208 & 1210 Meeting room

The event was held on September 9, 2016. 119 people participated.

Please see SPARC Japan NewsLetter, No.30.
Documents, slides and videos are available only on Japanese version page.

Outline
As a response to the “serials crisis” caused by the chronic subscription cost increases of scholarly journals, Japanese university libraries have formed a consortium for electronic resources and signed up the Big Deal of the scholarly journals, in parallel have led an open access movement over institutional repositories, and recently have been implementing open access policies of their institutions.

The present well-recognized open access methods are two ways. One is so-called the green OA (open access) in which, against the publishers’ subscription based and access controlled journals, authors or institutional staff store the copy or author version of the articles written by the authors of their institutions in institutional repositories and make a free access of them. The other is the gold OA in which authors pay publishers APC (article processing charges) for open access publishing from originating journal sites.

After the UK government announced the acceptance of Finch report in 2012 that will make all-publicly funded research in the UK open access via gold OA journals, several amount of bipolar debates on the green OA versus the gold OA arise in the EU countries. In the UK, Jisc (formerly the UK Joint Information Systems Committee) promotes changing hybrid journals that consists of both subscription based and APC based business models to gold OA, and made some pilot agreements with publishers of hybrid journals to develop the offsetting systems to cap the total amount of expenditures of institutions. The Netherlands VSNU (The Association of Universities in the Netherlands) renewed its subscription to a bundle of 2,000 paywalled journals from the publisher Springer, but with terms that made papers by corresponding authors at subscribing Dutch universities OA, for no extra charge, and made a similar agreement with Elsevier. The European Commission announced the launch of an ‘Open Science Policy Platform’ with a remit that includes investigating how subscription publishers can best transition to OA. In a particular research field, the high-energy physics community formed a consortium SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) to make a business model in which major disciplinary journals are transitioned to gold OA. However, an opinion leader of OA and a promoter of self-archiving, Stevan Harnad expressed a warning of blindly devotion to the gold OA among scholarly communities. COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) also announced the statement of the same alert jointly with UNESCO. Moreover, a variety of stakeholders are blogging their opinions to express their thought of warning on imminent transition to gold OA.

Along with these events of OA, how should we act for OA in Japan? Since we have been deeply surrounded with substantial amount of journals originating from European countries and US, we cannot ignore the OA movement. As for Japanese academic community, urgently we have to discuss about how we can deal with the gold OA and retrospectively think of the green OA. In this seminar, those of practitioners and researchers who are interested in OA movement in Japan are welcome to get together and discuss on the topic.
Program
Moderator:Kei Kurakawa(National Institute of Informatics)
Time

Title

Speaker

13:00-13:05

Opening Greeting

Shigeo Urushidani
(National Institute of Informatics)

13:05-13:10

Outline

Kei Kurakawa
(National Institute of Informatics)

13:10-13:35

Two roads to open access revisited: Green and gold

[Abstract]

Syun Tutiya
(National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education)

13:35-14:00

Flipping cash flow for scholarly journals: report of the preliminary results of the survey conducted jointly by JUSTICE and SPARC Japan

[Abstract]

Koichi Ojiro
(Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE)
/ The University of Tokyo Library System)

14:00-14:25

Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access in SCOAP3

[Abstract]

Jun Adachi
(National Institute of Informatics)

14:25-14:40

Efforts for Open Access in university libraries

[Abstract]

Masayuki Shoji
(Waseda University Library)

14:40-15:05

'What is the best journal for my paper?' Open access journals and life science

[Abstract]

Hidemasa Bono
(Database Center for Life Science)

15:05-15:25

Break

15:25-16:35

Panel Discussion:

[[ Moderator ]]
*Kazuo Yamamoto
(University of the Ryukyus Library)

[[ Panelist ]]
*Syun Tutiya
(National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education)
*Koichi Ojiro
(Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE)
/ The University of Tokyo Library System)
*Jun Adachi
(National Institute of Informatics)
*Masayuki Shoji
(Waseda University Library)
*Hidemasa Bono
(Database Center for Life Science)

16:35-16:40

Closing

Jun Adachi
(National Institute of Informatics)

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Speaker
Kei Kurakawa (National Institute of Informatics)

http://researchmap.jp/kurakawa/?lang=english

Syun Tutiya (National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education)

Tutiya taught philosophy and cognitive science at Chiba University beginning in 1982 and was concurrently appointed as director of the Chiba University Library in 1998, which marked the beginning of his involvement in the library community. Afterwards, Tutiya continued to engage in activities such as price negotiations for e-licensing through consortia copyright, negotiations with rights holders and publishers, and the promotion of institutional repositories and open access together with libraries and librarians. In 2011 he was transferred from Chiba University to the National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (currently, the National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education), where he has supported the institution’s various programs while studying and researching higher education and quality assurance.
See also, http://researchmap.jp/tutiya

Koichi Ojiro (Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE)
/ The University of Tokyo Library System)

General Manager, the University of Tokyo Library System from April 2015. He started his career as a librarian at the Nagoya University Library in January 1983 and has worked for Tokyo Institute of Technology Library, National Diet Library, Chiba University Libraries, National Institute of Informatics, and the University of Tokyo Library System.

Jun Adachi (National Institute of Informatics)

In 1981 Adachi completed his doctoral degree at the school of engineering, the University of Tokyo. Afterwards he served as an assistant at the Information Technology Center at the University of Tokyo, assistant professor, and professor at the Center for Science Information. Today, Adachi works as a professor at the National Institute of Informatics, while also acting as professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. Adachi is a member of the SCOAP3 Executive Committee. Among other fields, he chiefly engages in the development and research one database systems, information searches, and text mining. Adachi is also a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Information Processing Society of Japan, The Database Society of Japan, as well as IEEE and ACM.
See also, http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/faculty/digital_content/adachi_jun/

Masayuki Shoji (Waseda University Library)

Shoji is the general manager of the Waseda University Library. After working in computer-related departments such as the Center for Informatics, Center for Information Systems, Science Information Section, and the Center for Media Networks, he served as manager of the Science Information Section, manager of the Science & Engineering Library, manager of the S. Takata Memorial Research Library, and manager of the general affairs section prior to becoming deputy general manager and then general manager.

Hidemasa Bono (Database Center for Life Science)

After the initiation of FANTOM(Functional Annotation of Mouse) project at RIKEN, he joined the MEXT Integrated Database Project at Database Center for Life Science(DBCLS), which was established in Research Organization of Information and Systems(ROIS). In DBCLS, they launched the project TogoTV(an archive of tutorial videos expounding how to use biological databases and tools), and now he is involved in the technology development of database integration.

Kazuo Yamamoto (University of the Ryukyus Library)

General Manager, University of the Ryukyus Library. He has joined Institutional Repositories Promotion Committee under the Cooperation Promotion Council which links between the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and university libraries, and so on. He has given his effort for encouraging communities in Japan throughout from the beginning of NACSIS-CAT and e-journal consortium to the latest expanding term of Institutional Repositories.

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Abstract
Two roads to open access revisited: Green and gold
(Syun Tutiya)

Since the Budapest Declaration it has become common knowledge that there are two approaches to open access for scientific research results: the green path and the gold path. Initially, the gold path was not readily accepted because it seemed like a simple publication model where the costs were born by the researcher, while serious attempts were made to realize the green path, which should have destroyed the existing parasitic relationship with publishers using institutional repositories. However, in the ten or so years since the declaration, the inefficiency of the latter path has been confirmed. At the same time, understanding has been gained about the sustainability of programs under the former. Therefore, if there is a strong interest in making open access a reality, we are now at a stage where we must discuss the end goal of the gold path. This lecture takes a closer look at the possible final goal of the gold path by describing the transformation of the whole process behind distributing scientific information involving the intermediary providers of information such as publishers and libraries, the national assistance systems that fund the implementation of research, and the position of research itself within society.

Flipping cash flow for scholarly journals: report of the preliminary results of the survey conducted jointly by JUSTICE and SPARC Japan
(Koichi Ojiro)

Up to this point the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) has negotiated subscription fees with publishers, but given recent advancements in gold OA there is a growing need to negotiate the total cost including APCs. JUSTICE conducts a survey of the contractual situation of its member libraries every year, and it covers the expenditures each library pays out for subscription fees. However, negotiations on total costs require not only subscription fees, but also the actual situation of APC expenditures. On the other hand, at Berlin 12 in 2015 a proposal was made to shift subscription fees to APCs and adopt the OA model on a worldwide scale. Given this situation, JUSTICE and the governing board for SPARC Japan established a joint investigative team in 2015 and set up an initiative to grasp the actual situation of Japanese researchers’ publishing papers and the amount of APC payments. This lecture provides a report on the activities of this investigative team, a summary of the data tabulated to date, and contributes to discussions about future strategies for open access.

Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access in SCOAP3
(Jun Adachi)

The SCOAP3 consortium has made major scientific journals in the field of high energy physics open access, making it possible it possible for authors to publish their papers without cost barriers. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) advocated this approach, and as an international consortium comprised mainly of more than 3,000 university libraries, funding agencies, and research institutions from 44 countries, SCOAP3 has made ten journals open access beginning in January 2014. Phase I of these activities will last three years until the end of 2017, and currently the direction for continuing advancement into Phase II has been decided. This lecture takes a closer look at the background and current situation of SCOAP3 as well as asks for assistance with regards to the difficult situation faced in Japan.

Efforts for Open Access in university libraries
(Masayuki Shoji)

Initiatives for open access at university libraries have mainly been implemented through institutional repositories. From the perspective institutional repository administrators, this lecture takes a look at libraries advocating the green approach by actively collecting papers appearing in commercial journals and libraries that have not been proactive in doing so.

'What is the best journal for my paper?' Open access journals and life science
(Hidemasa Bono)

Papers published in OA journals now have a greater chance of being seen thanks to the development of internet search engines. As a result, increasing numbers of papers are submitted to gold OA journals such as the Public Library of Science (PLOS) and BioMed Central (BMC). Traditional paper journals now allow for the selection of either OA option. On the other hand, the required paper publication fees for OA are taken from research costs, which constrains spending on the reagents and consumables essential to testing. As such, these fees have become a presence that cannot be ignored when conducting research activities. The current situation is that researchers want their research widely disseminated through publishing papers in OA journals, but funding is needed in order to do so. Based on actual experience, this lecture takes a closer looks at trends in journal selection for papers written by life science researchers.

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