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The Transition to Open Access:
Progress So Far
Michael Jubb
Research Information Network
RENU Autumn Workshop
17th September 2014
Oxford Brookes University
Agenda
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Policy developments
Publishers and intermediaries
Universities and libraries
Recent reports and data
Monographs
Research data
Policy Developments
UK
 Finch Report 2012
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RCUK
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Review of Progress
2013
International
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Implementation review
2014
Wellcome (and other
medical research
charities)
Funding Councils and
REF
G8 meeting and follow-up
Science Europe, Global
Research Council, ICSU…..
EU and Horizon 2020
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USA
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Guidelines December 2013
Other EU countries
OSTP Memorandum 2013
 DoE plans in public domain
China
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Academy of Sciences and
National Science Foundation
statement
Publishers and Intermediaries
Publishers and OA
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Most journals from major publishers now
hybrid
New OA journals
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Elsevier Schizophrenia Research: Cognition
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Wiley Clinical Case Reports
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Springer EJNMMI Physics
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OUP Journal of Law and the Biosciences
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Royal Society Royal Society Open Science
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Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Science
DOAJ nearing 10k titles
Publishers and OA
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Quality issues
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Beall’s list, and the John Bohannan sting
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Elsevier and take-down notices
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impact and response from DOAJ and OASPA
Academia.edu and ResearchGate
Tim Gowers and the Cost of Knowledge
campaign
CERN and the launch of the SCOAP3
initiative
Payment systems and intermediaries
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Publishers’ deposit account and membership
schemes
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workflows for processing, invoicing, collecting and
reporting on APCs
Jisc APC pilot service
Copyright Clearance Center
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links between RightsLink and Editorial Manager
systems
See also CCC/ALPSP OA News and Resources
website
http://www.copyright.com/content/cc3/en/open_access.html
Universities and Libraries
Policies and Processes
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Green and Gold
institutional funds for payment of APCs
libraries working with research services
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implementation of CRISs
developing workflows
sharing good practice
‘work in progress’
Some key issues
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publishers <-> authors
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B2C model
no institutional touch point
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what’s being/has beenpublished?
varying policies
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version
licence
embargo
price
Costs
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subscriptions, APCs and the offsets issue
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Willetts’ three principles
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a meaningful proportion of an institution’s total APC
costs to be offset against total subscription payments
(or vice versa)
a sliding scale to be applied to this proportion to
incentivise use of Gold OA
a limit applied to the total value of offset, taking
account of administrative costs incurred by institution
and publisher
Costs
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RLUK ‘framework papers’
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big deal subscriptions to increase no more
than 1% in cash terms
offsets to operate at institutional level
work with Institute of Physics
Jisc Collections’ modelling for Total Cost
of Ownership project
Tim Gowers’ Cost of Knowledge campaign
Recent Reports
Recent Reports and Data
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BIS/Elsevier report on the International Comparative Performance of the UK
Research Base
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263729/bis-13-1297-international-comparative-performance-of-the-UK-research-base-2013.pdf
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data on take-up of OA in UK and rest of world
Wellcome et al commissioned report Developing an Effective Market for Open
Access Article Processing Charges
www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/Guides/WTP054773.htm
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differential between APCs for hybrids and fully-OA journals
policy options
British Academy report Open access journals in Humanities and Social Science
http://www.britac.ac.uk/templates/asset-relay.cfm?frmAssetFileID=13584
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HEFCE analysis of OA for articles submitted to REF 2014
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feasibility of OA in HSS
96% of outputs complied with REF 2020 requirements
Taylor and Francis/ALPSP Open Access and Society: Impact and Engagement
http://editorresources.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014-Taylor-Francis-Society-Survey.pdf
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survey of learned society publishers
Taylor and Francis Open Access Survey 2014
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/explore/open-access-survey-june2014.pdf
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changing attitudes of T&F authors
UUK OA Group………………..
Monographs
Monographs: current initiatives
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OAPEN UK
http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/
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gathering evidence to help stakeholders make decisions on the future of OA monograph publishing
in HSS
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HEFCE Expert Reference Group
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/monographs/
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AHRC/BL project on academic books of the future
Commercial publishers
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Palgrave Open
http://www.palgrave.com/page/about-us-palgrave-open/
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Bloomsbury Academic
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/online-resources-and-ebooks/bloomsbury-open-content/
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Other initiatives
Knowledge Unlatched
http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/
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Open Book Publishers
http://www.openbookpublishers.com/
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Open Edition
http://www.openedition.org/
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Open Library of the Humanities
https://www.openlibhums.org/
Research Data
Research data
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Science as an Open Enterprise
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Research Sector Transparency Board
RCUK Data principles
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UK Open Research Data Forum
EPSRC mandate
EU Horizon 2020
USA OSTP memorandum
Research Data Alliance
Global Research Council, ICSU, G8
meetings………