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| title = The Rise of Open Access | | title = The Rise of Open Access | ||
| image = the_rise_of_open_access.jpg | | image = the_rise_of_open_access.jpg | ||
− | | | + | | before = The accelerating pace of scientific publishing and the rise of open access, as depicted by xkcd.com cartoonist Randall Munroe. |
| ldomain = sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/58.full# | | ldomain = sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/58.full# | ||
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− | * The comic above is from the article "[ | + | * The comic above is from the article "[http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/58.full. The Rise of Open Access]" in Science. |
+ | * A much larger version of this image, where the two parts (upper and lower) has been moved so the bottom part instead continued the upper part can be found by clicking the image in the article, or click [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/scicomm/infographic.jpg here]. | ||
+ | ** This version has also been [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/archive/4/48/20150825153049%21the_rise_of_open_access.jpg uploaded to xkcd]. | ||
==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This comic is a one-off exclusive created for the journal {{w|Science (journal)|Science}} by [[Randall Munroe]]. It shows how much "Science" there is and how much of it will be Open access. It is not part of the main comic series. | + | This comic is a one-off exclusive created for the journal {{w|Science (journal)|Science}} by [[Randall Munroe]].It shows how much "Science" there is and how much of it will be Open access. It is not part of the main comic series. |
− | It shows how much Science is there by showing how | + | It shows how much Science is there by showing how much papers have been published. It states that there can be 140 citations per page. On a Word document with a narrow margin and regular font, then you could fit about 140 citations in one page with a word size of 6. It then states that we can fit 1000 pages per book. 1000 pages is a lot for children's books {{Citation needed}} and even adult fiction books such the Harry Potter series have about 600 pages. However, many reference books and dictionaries have over 1000 pages. For a size reference, picture Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 1.3 times larger. We then start stacking books, each one having 14000000 citations in them. |
− | The comic then says that a list of papers published in 1880 will have 100 pages | + | The comic then says that a list of papers published in 1880 will have 100 pages or 14000 citations, not even one book. By 1920 the pile will be growing at 500 pages per year. This means that if it were linear, there will be 50 books or 50000 pages in 2020. However, this growth is clearly exponential as shown by the 1975 volume alone would have 4 books. In the time this comic was published there were 5 books each year and growing. |
− | The comic then shows a timeline | + | The comic then shows a timeline with [[Cueball]], [[Megan]] and [[Ponytail]] on the timeline, from 1880 to 1900 there are barely any books, at 1900 there are three books, however, this drops back to one until 1920 where there is four, at 1930 there is nine and at 1940 there is a whopping 14. It is further shown at the second timeline that the number continues to grow exponentially. Along the timeline there is random bits of trivia. |
− | The second part of the comic shows how much of all that information | + | The second part of the comic shows how much of all that information will be open access or available to the public without many copyright laws. For example, xkcd is Open access because it can be viewed and copied for non profit means. As the comic states, more science is becoming open access due to the web. The second picture is another timeline with Cueball, Megan, [[Black Hat]] and [[Danish]] in a area labeled Open Access. As it states, more than half of the information is open access and more is becoming open access as shown by the bits of fact stating milestones for open access. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:'''How much science is there?''' | :'''How much science is there?''' | ||
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| 1999 || NIH director proposes an archive of free biomed papers | | 1999 || NIH director proposes an archive of free biomed papers | ||
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− | | 2000 || Pubmed Central debuts <br> | + | | 2000 || Pubmed Central debuts <br> Plos founded |
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| 2001 || 30,000 scientists call for a boycott of journals that don't allow free access on Pubmed within 6 months | | 2001 || 30,000 scientists call for a boycott of journals that don't allow free access on Pubmed within 6 months | ||
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:Black Hat: 25% of open-access papers are freely available on publication. The rest becomes free within 12 months on journal websites or other repositories. | :Black Hat: 25% of open-access papers are freely available on publication. The rest becomes free within 12 months on journal websites or other repositories. | ||
− | :[Next to Cueball, | + | :[Next to Cueball, a woman fishes a book out of a pile of volumes with a fishing rod.] |
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[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Danish]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Danish]] | ||
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