On the road towards a sustainable open access publishing market: workshop report : OpenAIRE blog

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-05-04

Summary:

"On 20th April 2017, the ‘closing’ workshop of the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot, organised by LIBER, took place at the Royal Library in The Hague, Netherlands. (as has recently been announced, the Pilot has been extended with another 10 months – so ‘closing workshop’ might not be that accurate of a description) 60 stakeholders assembled for this day-long workshop. While the morning session focused on the activities undertaken during the Pilot, the afternoon was reserved for a presentation of the report 'Towards a Competitive and Sustainable OA Market in Europe' by Research Consulting and a break-out session intended to gather input for the Roadmap that will accompany this report.

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Some highlights of the break-out sessions – by no means exhaustive. The results and write-up of this break-out session will be shared later under the form of a Roadmap:

  • Create a real marketplace for authors – a big advantage of gold OA is authors have to make a choice. First criterion in journal selection is discipline, second is quality, but price sensitivity could become a third factor – then they will start to compare quality and price. A market could then bring down the prices. There is a beginning of price awareness. A related discussion focused on efficiency vs author awareness: in order to increase the total amount of OA publications, whether it’s preferable to have very well informed researchers who arrange their own OA funding or to increase efficiency via transparant and standardised workflows on research administration level – where intermediary actors facilitate open access.
  • Reveal true figures/transparency of APC costs: the lack of transparancy and predictability in APC/BPC price setting is a big frustration for administrators.
  • Improve visibility and research into alternative business models for publishers and platforms that work without author facing publishing charges. Shift to added value of services from publishers, rather than simply basing value of on copyright – there is also more research to alternative business models needed
  • Standardise  publishing, grant processing and offsetting workflows – this will make advocacy and monitoring much easier, will also provide statistical support for research"

Link:

https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=1884

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05/04/2017, 21:14

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05/04/2017, 17:14