Some Observations from Charleston (Open Access Edition): - The Scholarly Kitchen

peter.suber's bookmarks 2022-12-08

Summary:

"This year’s Charleston Hub (again) included a significant focus on open access (OA) from the perspectives of both the publisher and library communities. The advent of the OSTP’s Nelson Memo is driving hope, change, and concern. With these impressions still fresh in my mind, I thought I’d share some of my key takeaways....

Given...the broader concern that zero-embargo posting of accepted manuscripts is simply not sustainable, many publishers are accelerating OA plans, preparing to enter into OA Agreements when they have not previously done so and moving beyond APC-only models....

Academic libraries are genuinely worried that they will be expected to pay for increased OA fees and to manage OSTP required mandates without additional resources. The OA Agreements they have entered into with publishers were generally designed and modeled around corresponding authors from a given institution, not all authors. The existing agreements were not designed to carry this additional load. New modeling is needed, as is broader adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) and enhanced author workflows...."

Link:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/12/08/some-observations-from-charleston-open-access-edition/

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oa.new oa.events oa.subscribe_to_open oa.usa oa.ostp oa.policies oa.policies.funders oa.funders oa.mandates oa.embargoes oa.funders

Date tagged:

12/08/2022, 10:16

Date published:

12/08/2022, 05:15