tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/3732/feed_itemsfrankhellwig's bookmarks2023-12-22T09:33:08-05:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/93749202023-12-22T09:33:08-05:002023-12-22T09:33:08-05:00The Transformed Agreement: German library consortium and Frontiers announce world’s largest fully open access agreementtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/93749212023-12-22T09:33:27-05:002023-12-22T09:33:27-05:00New publishing agreements with Frontiers and PLOS for investment in open access [article in Swedish: Nya publiceringsavtal med Frontiers och PLOS för satsning på öppen tillgång]<div>
<p>Researchers at all of the participating organizations of the Bibsam Consortium will be able to publish in all journals from the publishers Frontiers and PLOS without charge, for either author or university.</p>
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<p>As a result of <a href="https://www-kb-se.translate.goog/samverkan-och-utveckling/nytt-fran-kb/nyheter-samverkan-och-utveckling/2023-10-25-finansiarer-i-gemensam-satsning-pa-oppen-tillgang.html?_x_tr_sl=sv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp">the research financiers' strategic decision to jointly finance publication with publishers that only publish fully open access journals,</a> two new Bibsam agreements have been signed with the publishers Frontiers and PLOS respectively. ...</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/30603972021-06-04T13:03:19-04:002021-06-04T13:03:19-04:00JOB VACANCY: Institutional Memberships Specialist (Open Access Scholarly Publishing) - Frontiers<p>... The role will provide the suitable candidate with an excellent opportunity to work in a thriving and international environment at the forefront of the transition of scientific publishing to Open Access. Our office is located in London, however remote working options are available for candidates across the UK.</p>
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<p>Taking care of processes and relationships regarding existing member organizations, including: ... Supporting the forming of new membership collaborations, including: ...</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/30603952021-06-04T12:58:30-04:002021-06-04T12:58:30-04:00Webinar III - Quo vadis, transformative agreements?<p>8 June 2021 – 14.00 to 15.30 CEST
This third webinar of the series "Universities and the future of scholarly publishing" will look into the ins and outs of the different types of transformative agreements with large and small publishers. It will also explore their potential to flip scholarly publishing to Open Access.
The scholarly publishing sector is experiencing a transition to new forms of business models, with traditional subscription big deals being increasingly replaced with so-called transformative agreements. This is accompanied by a push through policies such as Plan S.
Building on the results of the study on future scenarios for scholarly publishing, this EUA webinar takes stock of these changes. It will focus on the risks and opportunities as the sector moves towards a combination of publishing and subscription agreements. In detail, participants will discuss the fields of diversity and competition, affordability, as well as the sustainable operation of smaller publishers. Particular attention will be paid to the implications for universities and consortia and how they can navigate the transition.
Registrations are now open. The webinar is free of charge and open to anyone interested, including all EUA members, leadership from other universities and libraries, leaders in scholarly communication and publishing and those interested in Open Access. Registrations will remain open until the start of the event.
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<li> Liz Ferguson, Vice President of Open Research, Wiley</li>
<li> Jens-Peter Gaul, Secretary General, German Rectors‘ Conference HRK, for Projekt DEAL</li>
<li> Jack Hyland, Manager, IReL</li>
<li> Stephan Kuster, Head of Institutional Relations, Frontiers</li>
<li> Claire Moulton, Publisher, The Company of Biologists</li>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/29742542021-04-20T14:01:38-04:002021-06-08T14:38:16-04:00The Impact of the German 'DEAL' on Competition in the Academic Publishing Market by Justus Haucap, Nima Moshgbar, Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal :: SSRN<p>Abstract: The German DEAL agreements between German universities and research institutions on the one side and Springer Nature and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of all publications in chemistry from 2016 to 2020 and apply a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the impact on eligible scientists’ choice of publication outlet. We find that even in the short period following the conclusion of these DEAL agreements, publication patterns in the field of chemistry have changed, as eligible researchers have increased their publications in Wiley and Springer Nature journals at the cost of other journals. From that two related competition concerns emerge: First, academic libraries may be, at least in the long run, left with fewer funds and incentives to subscribe to non-DEAL journals published by smaller publishers or to fund open access publications in these journals. Secondly, eligible authors may prefer to publish in journals included in the DEAL agreements, thereby giving DEAL journals a competitive advantage over non-DEAL journals in attracting good papers. Given the two-sided market nature of the academic journal market, these effects may both further spur the concentration process in this market.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27863162020-10-06T11:55:29-04:002020-10-06T11:55:29-04:00Upcoming Webinar: Introducing PLOS Community Action Publishing<p>...we’ll provide an overview and Q&A session about PLOS’ new collective action model, PLOS Community Action Publishing (CAP), designed for our highly selective journals PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology. We will host two sessions of the webinar on Oct 26, 2020 at 10:00 AM ET and October 28, 2020 at 12 PM ET. ... This webinar is first-come-first-served for library and consortia representatives</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27863152020-10-06T11:51:16-04:002020-10-06T11:51:16-04:00Institutional Memberships Specialist (Open Access Scholarly Publishing) [job posting]<p>Seattle, Washington, United States, Full time</p>
<p>Reporting to the Institutional Memberships Manager (based in London, UK), this role will play a crucial role in expanding Frontiers’ Institutional Memberships Program by establishing, developing, and maintaining collaborations with universities and other research organisations in the US. The role will provide the suitable candidate with an excellent opportunity to work in a thriving and international environment at the forefront of the transition of scientific publishing to Open Access.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27862642020-10-06T11:24:29-04:002020-10-06T11:24:29-04:00Die Förderung von Open-Access-Publikationskosten durch die DFG ab 2021 (Funding of Open Access publication costs by the German Research Foundation from 2021) (17 Sep)<p>Abstract (Google Translate (original slides & abstract in German)):</p>
<p>The open access transformation in Germany has gained momentum through the conclusion of contracts with an open access component. It continues to require adjustments to the financing structures and with greater urgency, as well as greater transparency about the funds that are spent on Open Access.</p>
<p>The adaptation of the financing structures must take place at all levels in order to create an efficient and transparent overall system in the area of publishing. The recording of costs should cover all funds used for publications, including traditional publication fees.</p>
<p>At the same time, the focus should not be narrowed to the open access models, which incur publication fees for individual contributions. The variety of financing models should be retained and expanded further.</p>
<p>The DFG plans to set up a limited funding program starting in 2021, with which universities and non-university research institutions can raise funds for open access publication costs. All formats are supported: in addition to research articles, also books and preprints. It serves as a transition to a polluter pays principle, also in the area of the funds required for Open Access. This program is supplemented by a program for the funding of infrastructures, in which above all Open Access infrastructures and the further formation of structures for Open Access are promoted. The lecture will present motives and details of the future funding of open access publication costs. The complementary program “Infrastructures for Scientific Publishing” will also be presented in this session.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27862602020-10-06T11:14:55-04:002020-10-06T11:14:55-04:00Swiss € 57 million Elsevier deal: A first critical evaluation after 8 months (14 August)<p>Particularly disturbing is the fact that a 4-year contract was signed right away. Why not start with a 1-2 year contract in order to gain experience and to be able to correct any undesirable developments, like those which now come apparent? Now, swissuniversities has given up all its trump cards for four years and may soon have to advertise hybrid OA Elsevier if the publication volume does not develop as anticipated. It would actually be desirable if fewer Swiss authors were to publish in hybrid journals from Elsevier, but in genuine Open Access journals. The signal that this agreement sends out to genuine Gold Open Access publishers is also fatal. Without a public call for tenders, Elsevier has been awarded a mega-contract, while those publishers who have actually been striving for OA for years and can deliver it more cheaply will be left out in the cold.</p>
<p>With a PAR fee of over 4500 EUR, the price level is already extremely high, which once <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.240896">again</a> shows that OA in Switzerland does not fail because of the lack of money.</p>
<p>The money has now been used to buy 30% OA from Elsevier. But for the <a href="https://www.swissuniversities.ch/fileadmin/swissuniversities/Dokumente/Hochschulpolitik/Open_Access/Open_Access_strategy_final_e.pdf">100% that swissuniversities wants to achieve by 2024</a>, a lot still has to happen.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27862592020-10-06T11:03:16-04:002020-10-06T11:03:16-04:00Transformative open-access deals spread to the US (10 July)<p>One issue common to the recent read-and-publish agreements is that substituting APCs for subscriptions shifts the burden of journal financing onto the relatively small fraction of subscribing institutions that are research intensive. ...</p>
<p>“It remains to be seen whether ‘publish’ institutions will be able and willing to accept the radical reallocation of costs logically implied by transformative agreements,” notes a <a href="https://infrastructure.sparcopen.org/2020-update/appendix-scholarly-journals">report</a> by the OA advocacy group Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).</p>
<p>As the number of OA articles in hybrid journals increases, universities and libraries that haven’t negotiated transformative deals question whether to continue to subscribe when much of the content is free. “I call this counting the holes in Swiss cheese,” says Esposito. “Every deal signed lowers the value of ‘read’ subscriptions at all other institutions,” the SPARC report says.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27314222020-07-15T06:59:37-04:002020-07-15T06:59:37-04:00Read & Publish contracts in the context of a dynamic scholarly publishing system: A study on future scenarios for the scholarly publishing system<p>Preface 1</p>
<p>Management summary 3</p>
<p>1 Introduction 5</p>
<p>1.1 A study on Read & Publish contracts in the context of a dynamic scholarly publishing system 5</p>
<p>1.2 Objectives of the study 6</p>
<p>1.3 Methodology used for this study 7</p>
<p>1.4 Reading guide 8</p>
<p>2 A dynamic scholarly publishing system 9</p>
<p>2.1 A two-sided market 9</p>
<p>2.2 Transitioning from the traditional subscription-based model 9</p>
<p>2.3 Open access modalities 12</p>
<p>2.4 Transformative agreements 14</p>
<p>2.5 Publishing platforms 17</p>
<p>3 Actors in the scholarly publishing system and their main drivers 18</p>
<p>3.1 Stakeholders in the context of open access negotiations 18</p>
<p>3.2 Authors and readers 18</p>
<p>3.3 Negotiating consortia 21</p>
<p>3.4 Publishers 22</p>
<p>3.5 Research funders 23</p>
<p>3.6 Governments 25</p>
<p>4 Four scenarios 27</p>
<p>4.1 Reference scenario 1: Predominantly subscription-based contracts with delayed OA through</p>
<p>repositories after publishing (‘Classical/Green’) 27</p>
<p>4.2 Scenario 2: Predominantly Publish & Read contracts (‘P&R/R&P’) 28</p>
<p>4.3 Scenario 3: Predominantly contracts for publishing open access through publisher-owned</p>
<p>journals or platforms (‘publisher-owned OA platforms’) 28</p>
<p>4.4 Scenario 4: Predominantly contracts for publishing open access through community-owned</p>
<p>platforms (‘Community-owned OA platforms’) 29</p>
<p>5 Differences in implications between the scenarios 31</p>
<p>5.1 Methodological note and limitations 31</p>
<p>5.2 Impact on academic freedom and the freedom to publish in preferred journals 31</p>
<p>5.3 Ability to perform current research(er) performance assessment 32</p>
<p>5.4 Service levels of publishers and innovation in research communities 33</p>
<p>5.5 Transparency in the market 34</p>
<p>Read & Publish contracts in the context of a dynamic scholarly publishing system ii</p>
<p>5.6 Effects on the arts, humanities and social sciences 34</p>
<p>6 Perceived strengths and weaknesses of hypothetical scenarios 35</p>
<p>6.1 Scenario 2: R&P contracts 35</p>
<p>6.2 Scenario 3: Publisher-owned OA platforms or journals 37</p>
<p>6.3 Scenario 4: Community-owned OA platforms 39</p>
<p>7 Potential effects of the hypothetical scenarios on each stakeholder group 42</p>
<p>7.1 Authors and readers 42</p>
<p>7.2 Negotiating consortia 43</p>
<p>7.3 Publishers 44</p>
<p>7.4 Funders 46</p>
<p>8 Desirability and feasibility of the hypothetical scenarios 47</p>
<p>8.1 Scenario 2: Predominantly Publish & Read contracts (‘P&R/R&P’) 47</p>
<p>8.2 Scenario 3: Predominantly contracts for publishing open access through publisher-owned</p>
<p>journals or platforms (‘Publisher-owned OA platforms’) 47</p>
<p>8.3 Scenario 4: Predominantly contracts for publishing open access through community-owned</p>
<p>platforms (‘Community-owned OA platforms’) 48</p>
<p>9 Overview and main conclusions 50</p>
<p>9.1 Open access drivers 50</p>
<p>9.2 Implications of R&P contracts 51</p>
<p>9.3 Implications of future scenarios for the scholarly publishing system 52</p>
<p>9.4 Implications of future scenarios for various stakeholders 52</p>
<p>9.5 Desired future, realistic future and likelihood of implementation 53</p>
<p>9.6 Schematic overview of scenarios 54</p>
<p>9.7 Discussion and reflection 57</p>
<p>9.8 Recommendations 58</p>
<p>List of abbreviations used 60</p>
<p>Consulted stakeholders 61</p>
<p>Description of the behavioural model and application to scenarios 64</p>
<p>Details on the Delphi surveys 67</p>
<p>Scenario summary tables 70</p>
<p>Details on contractual conditions 78</p>
<p>PESTLE Factors 81</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27314212020-07-15T06:50:58-04:002020-07-15T06:50:58-04:00Institutional Memberships Assistant (Open Access Scholarly Publishing) - Frontiers<p><span>this role will play a crucial role in expanding Frontiers’ Institutional Memberships Program and provide the suitable candidate with an excellent opportunity to work in a thriving and international environment at the forefront of the transition of scientific publishing to Open Access.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27314202020-07-15T06:43:24-04:002020-07-15T06:43:24-04:00Read & Publish contracts in the context of a dynamic scholarly publishing system<p>This report is the result of the <a href="https://eua.eu/101-projects/751-study-on-read-publish-agreements.html">study on Read & Publish agreements</a> commissioned by EUA on behalf of 25 supporting organisations in May 2019. Carried out by Technopolis Group, the report explores the potential implications of ongoing structural changes in the scholarly publishing system.</p>
<p>The publication approaches the future of scholarly publishing via a set of four scenarios representing the scholarly publishing system’s “dominant” business models. The findings highlight that traditional subscription publishing is largely undesirable, while Read & Publish agreements are perceived as transitional arrangements. A majority of survey respondents, instead, indicated that two future scenarios – pure Open Access publishing by commercial actors, and community-ran, non-commercial publishing – are the most desirable.</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26365262020-03-12T07:05:36-04:002020-03-12T07:05:36-04:00Current Transformative Agreements Are Not Transformative: Position Paper – For Full, Immediate and Transparent Open Access<p>This is the basis for recent interest in so-called transformative agreements. Based on our assessment of several such agreements, we argue that they are not genuinely transformative and that their transformational potential is actually very low. Such models risk perpetuating current limitations on access, transparency and market competitiveness, while simultaneously facilitating excessive charges on the public purse. While they permit some legacy publishers to increase the fraction of OA content, they also increase the number of articles published in hybrid journals, lock subscribers into their current arrangements with publishers, and do nothing to improve price transparency. If such agreements allow publishers to continue their current pricing behavior, the long-term cost for libraries, higher education and research institutions will be much higher than they expect. So called Transformative Agreements frequently display the following shortcomings:</p>
<p>• They lack binding commitments to a full transformation to OA.</p>
<p>• Access is limited to selected parts of a publisher’s portfolio.</p>
<p>• Conditions vary across national borders.</p>
<p>• They crowd-out pure OA publishers from institutional or national agreement negotiations.</p>
<p>The signatories of this position statement believe that OA that is delivered in a full, immediate and transparent (FIT) way by fully OA publishers offers a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to hybrid models. We advocate for an "OA first" policy that should make it mandatory to find mechanisms of support for native OA publications and alternative peer-review platforms first, before entering large-scale transformative agreements with legacy publishers providing OA coverage or subsidies of OA APCs.</p>
<p>The signatories therefore recommend that: ...</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26365252020-03-12T07:02:50-04:002020-03-12T07:02:50-04:00Current Transformative Agreements Are Not Transformative – Science & research news | Frontiers<p>Over that past decade and longer, pure OA publishers have demonstrated that open science works by having already successfully provided these the services to authors; and policy makers have taken note. Now, in order to support more traditional publishers to change their subscription-based models to OA, a number of so called ‘Transformative Agreements’ – also referred to as ‘Publish and Read’ deals – have been signed between national library consortia and large publishers in recent months.</p>
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<p>Transformative agreements – if truly transformative – would be an effective instrument to support the transition to OA. But to do so there are key transformative elements that must be present. For an agreement to be considered as “transformative”, it must contain binding conditions or mechanisms that (1) guarantee the full transition to 100% OA within a defined, short timeframe and (2) guarantee that the process cannot be easily reversed or cancelled at the end of the contractual period. The agreement should encompass all the publisher’s titles and include OA to legacy content.</p>
<p>... The joint position paper by Copernicus, JMIR, MDPI, Ubiquity Press and Frontiers offers an alternative solution: agreements with publishers that are already fully committed to open science and who offer full, immediate and transparent Open Access.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26350612020-03-10T15:10:05-04:002020-03-10T15:10:05-04:00Workshop on local implementation of open access transformation contracts using the example of the DEAL-Wiley contract now as a webinar (Workshop Lokale Umsetzung von Open-Access-Transformationsverträgen am Beispiel des DEAL-Wiley-Vertrages jetzt als Webinar)<p>Since the planned 5th OA2020-DE transformation workshop "Local implementation of open access transformation contracts using the example of the DEAL-Wiley contract" this week had to be canceled due to the corona virus, we decided to conduct the planned lectures in the form of a webinar.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26350382020-03-10T15:02:25-04:002020-03-10T15:02:25-04:00Using Dimensions publication and grants data to validate transformative agreements | Dimensions [webinar]<div>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26350372020-03-10T14:59:24-04:002020-03-10T14:59:24-04:00Open Access Charges – Consolidation Continues - Delta Think<p>With almost 55,000 APC data points in our database, we are able to identify emerging trends in pricing. Hybrid prices appear to be holding steady, although – as we predicted this time last year – we see higher charges at the higher end of the market. Meanwhile, the lowest fully OA APCs are getting lower, and there seems to be a downwards move in prices of fully OA journals – a reversal of what we saw last year. It appears that a two-tier market is emerging, with hybrid prices holding their own, and fully OA prices decreasing. ...</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26350322020-03-10T14:49:10-04:002020-03-10T14:49:10-04:00CDL signs letter of support for Immediate Open Access to Federally Funded Research - Office of Scholarly Communication<p><em>This letter represents US publishing organizations who support a potential White House Executive Order for immediate Open Access to federally funded research and directly addresses some of the prior claims in <a href="https://presspage-production-content.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/1508/coalitionletteropposinglowerembargoes-864869.pdf?54750">a letter released by AAP</a>. CDL has signed this letter as an open access publisher (eScholarship Publishing). Publishing organizations and scholarly societies who would like to join as additional signatories can reach out to <a href="https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2020/01/plos-joins-other-publishers-and-societies-in-support-of-the-proposed-white-house-policy-regarding-federally-funded-research/">PLOS</a> at <a href="mailto:community@plos.org">community@plos.org</a></em>. <em>To read an earlier response to the AAP letter by Ivy Anderson and Jeff MacKie-Mason, who co-chair UC’s publisher negotiations strategy team, <a href="https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2020/01/ostp-publisher-letter-response/">see last week’s blog post</a>.</em></p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26350272020-03-10T14:40:25-04:002020-03-10T14:40:25-04:00Projekt DEAL – Springer Nature Publish and Read Agreement :: MPG.PuRetag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26350262020-03-10T14:38:42-04:002020-03-10T14:38:42-04:00Publication of the DEAL-Springer Nature contract – Projekt DEAL [Veröffentlichung des DEAL-Springer Nature-Vertrages]<p>[from Google Translate:]</p>
<p>In addition to the participation process, HRK Circular No. 5/2020 also announced the publication of the full text of the contract.</p>
<p>The contract can now be found here: https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3174351</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26201252020-02-19T05:02:02-05:002020-02-19T05:02:02-05:00Bekenntnis zu Open Science: Neuer Rahmenvertrag zwischen Forschungszentrum und Wissenschaftsverlag Frontiers (Commitment to open science: New framework agreement between research center and science publisher Frontiers)<p>Google Translate:</p>
<p>Both partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Jülich yesterday for a new agreement that enables researchers to publish in Frontiers journals with a simplified procedures [...] </p>
<p>A key point of the world's largest open access framework agreement is that it is open to all institutions involved in the DEAL project [...] More than 700 publicly and privately financed science and research organizations in Germany [...]</p>
<p>As with DEAL, when working with Frontiers, the publication costs are processed through the respective libraries of the participating institutions.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26201222020-02-19T04:51:40-05:002020-02-19T04:51:40-05:00Hungarian Consortium EISZ Will Not Renew Contract with Taylor & Francis | LJ infoDOCKETtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26201212020-02-19T04:48:33-05:002020-02-19T04:48:33-05:00Hovudtrekk i Frontiers-avtalen (Main features of the Frontiers Agreement)tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/26201192020-02-19T04:46:54-05:002020-02-19T04:46:54-05:00Unit signerer nasjonal avtale med OA-forlaget Frontiers (Unit signs national agreement with OA publisher Frontiers)<p>Google Translate: New national agreement with the publisher Frontiers, which is the leader in open publishing, makes it easier for Norwegian researchers to publish in Frontiers' journal. For participants in the agreement, discounts on publishing fees (APC), centralized billing and payment options, as well as support for library staff working with publishing fees are included.</p>