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SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING & ACADEMIC RESOURCES COALITION
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The Economics of Open
Access
David Prosser • SPARC Europe Director
([email protected])
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The Economics of Open Access
Can be thought of at a number of levels:
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The economics of open access publishing – is it
sustainable?
The economics as part of the research process –
what does it cost the academic community and
how do we pay for open access?
The economic benefits of open access – what
are the economic benefits to society as a whole
of open access (improved education, technology
transfer, etc.)?
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The Economics of Open Access
Move from ‘cost of access’ to ‘cost of dissemination’.
Areas in which library consortia could have a role.
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Repositories – pooling resources, software development,
standards (e.g., metadata, OAI, version identification)
Journals (Current) –
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Memberships to pay article processing charges, e.g.
BioMedCentral, PLoS
Negotiate processing charges (perhaps setting caps on what
is considered reasonable)
Developing digital publishing tools to allow institutions to
publish their own open access titles.
National/local journals – many already receive direct
subsidy. Can consortia work to takes these subsidies and
turn the titles open access.
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The Economics of Open Access
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Journals (Retrospective) – Digitisation of past
runs of titles. Better than paying publishers to
access back catalogues?
Non-journal material – Consortia working on
open access for theses, monographs, major
reference works (models, standards, financial
support)
Advocacy – a role for consortia (for ICOLC) in
pushing the agenda?
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