Offsetting agreements for open access publishing | Jisc

pontika.nancy@gmail.com's bookmarks 2015-08-14

Summary:

"Last year my colleague Lorraine Estelle blogged about how we've unpicked the full cost of publishing in open access (OA). She reported a sharp increase in article processing charges (APCs) from UK universities’ central funds, particularly over the previous two years.  Modelling the true cost of publishing in open access Lorraine also described our work on modelling and how much it really costs universities to comply with open access policies. During the course of that work it emerged that, even back in 2013, APCs represented an average of 10% of the cost of publication, with administration of those charges adding more to the total figure. And so, working with a mandate from Research Libraries UK (RLUK), the Russell Group, the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL), and Universities UK (UUK), and in response to an open letter from David Willetts at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), we asked publishers of hybrid journals to work with us on developing offsetting systems. These are the subscription journals in which some articles are open access because their author or their institution has paid an APC, and we had some early successes, developing various offset systems with several major publishers, each one designed to offset the cost of the university’s APCs against their subscription fees ... Now there is a real sense of urgency in the air as the number of open access articles being published by UK institutions in hybrid journals continues to build. Many UK institutions, especially the most research-intensive ones, are seeing their total cost of publication continue to mount as they increasingly find themselves paying APCs for articles in journals to which they also subscribe.  Over the last four months we have made further strides towards a practical solution. We have worked proactively with even more leading journal publishers to develop offsetting systems that will reduce OA publishing costs for HEIs. So far, each version has been different as it's not been a simple case of a standardised solution to suit all ..."

Link:

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/offsetting-agreements-for-open-access-publishing-13-apr-2015

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Tags:

oa.comment oa.jisc oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.hybrid oa.fees oa.prices ru.sparc15 oatp.odd_duplicates oa.offsets

Date tagged:

08/14/2015, 11:22

Date published:

08/14/2015, 12:52