Monitoring of open science and research: Costs | Research.fi

"...Implementation: Total Costs of Open Access and Publication to Finnish Institutions are monitored as part of the monitoring of open science and research in Finland.  

Approach: Currently, the monitoring covers subscriptions, transformative agreements, article and book processing charges (APCs and BPCs), printed materials, membership fees and voluntary contributions paid to OA infrastructure, institutions’ own scholarly OA publishing, costs of Green OA (self-archiving and institutional repositories), costs related to the implementation and management of OA, and fees paid to Finnish scholarly journals. Some of the above costs are not directly associated with open access but have, however, been included to provide insights into the repurposing of existing resources. Transformative agreements contain both subscription fees and costs for open access publication. The approach has been devised by a task group working under the leadership of the National Library (FinELib) and consisting of experts from libraries and key stakeholders.

Data: Three types of data have been used: 1) Survey data collected by The Coordination of Open Science and Research (OScaR) in Finland through the monitoring of open science and research in Finland; 2) data obtained from the service unit of the FinELib Consortium; 3) OpenAPC data relating to Finnish institutions...."