Report Looks At Open Access From Perspective Of Authors, Institutions, Publishers
abernard102@gmail.com 2015-01-16
Summary:
"A new industry report explores ways authors, research institutions and publishers are grappling with the increasing move toward open access mandates by governments.
The report, entitled, Making Open Access Work for Authors, Institutions, and Publishers [pdf], is based on an October roundtable hosted by the Copyright Clearance Center. It was written by consultant Rob Johnson ... The report addresses: author management, streamlining the APC process, copyright and licensing, management and billing of APCs, standards and interoperability, and reporting and compliance. It also provides some case studies. The conclusion of the report is: 'The current approach to APC management is highly fragmented and undermined by differences of approach between nations and academic disciplines, inefficiencies in process and scarcity of resources. Opportunities exist to overcome many of these issues through improvements in data-sharing and development of common identifiers and vocabularies, but these must be placed in the context of broader trends and continuing uncertainties over the future of academic publishing' ..."