How does the growth of a particular publisher’s open access content factor into the relative value of a Big Deal? Part 2: The Findings - Delta Think

peter.suber's bookmarks 2022-05-17

Summary:

"Some final thoughts: (1) Overall usage was a stronger influence on the change in value than the small changes in the proportion of hybrid OA article usage. (2) Despite the range of research activity levels across our institutions, there wasn’t much difference in the proportion of the open versus controlled usage across the site-licensed institutions for either publisher. (3) COVID likely affected these trends, but precisely how was unclear. Did lockdown increase the usage or limit it? Did it affect our two publishers differently? We have no ‘non-COVID’ control unfortunately. (4) If the impact of transformative agreements on the rate of hybrid OA article output influenced these trends, the impact was quite small. Still, with more libraries negotiating transformative agreements, growth in the proportion of OA articles should accelerate. As long as usage in publisher packages continues to grow, cost per controlled use will increase more quickly than cost per use. This new cost per controlled use metric should help libraries track the return on investment from their journal package subscription payments as a growing proportion of underlying articles are free to read."

Link:

https://deltathink.com/news-views-how-does-the-growth-of-a-particular-publishers-open-access-content-factor-into-the-relative-value-of-a-big-deal-part-2-the-findings/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.growth oa.publishers oa.big_deals oa.economics_of oa.journals oa.prices oa.usage oa.hybrid oa.offsets

Date tagged:

05/17/2022, 09:50

Date published:

05/17/2022, 05:50