Transcript Setting up an open access publication fund Stephen Pinfield University of Nottingham Open access (OA) mandates • UK: RCUK – – – – – – AHRC BBSRC ESRC MRC NERC STFC • UK: charities/ independent funders – – – – British Heart Foundation Cancer.

Setting up an open access
publication fund
Stephen Pinfield
University of Nottingham
Open access (OA) mandates
• UK: RCUK
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AHRC
BBSRC
ESRC
MRC
NERC
STFC
• UK: charities/
independent funders
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British Heart Foundation
Cancer Research UK
Wellcome Trust
etc
• International
– Government and
independent funders
Routes to open access
• Publication in OA or ‘hybrid’ journal
• Deposit in OA repository
• ‘Open access’: where the full content
can be freely and immediately
accessed and reused in an
unrestricted way
Publishers and prices: examples
Publisher
OA option
Price
American Chemical Society
Author Choice
$3000
American Institute of Physics
Author Select
$1500-$2500
American Physical Society
Free to Read
$975-$1300
Blackwell
Online Open
$2600
British Medical Journal Publishing
BMJ Unlocked
$2220-$3145
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge Open
$2700
Elsevier
Sponsorship Option
$3000
Oxford University Press
Oxford Open
$1500-$2800
Professional Engineering Publishing (IME)
Engineering Open Choice
£1700
Routledge
iOpenAccess
$3250
Royal Society
EXIS Open Choice
$278-400 and $16 per page for
first 6-10 pages, $93 per page
thereafter
Royal Society of Chemistry
RSC Open Science
£1000-£2500
Sage
Sage Open
$3000
Springer
Open Choice
$3000
Taylor and Francis
iOpenAccess
$3250
Implications for institutions
• What do these (inter)national
developments mean for individual
institutions?
• What policies, facilities and services do
institutions need to be put in place?
• How can researchers be helped to pay
open-access charges?
Funder policies: Wellcome
• Direct grants
• Contingency funds
• Institutional funds for ‘top 30’
Funder policies: Research Councils
• Directly-Incurred Costs
– “For Research Council grants, publication fees may be
included as a directly-incurred cost under the ‘Other’
costs heading on the standard electronic application
form.”*
• Indirect Costs: Full Economic Costs
– “If universities do set up such [publication] funds, they
will form part of the cost base used for calculating their
standard rate for the indirect costs of research.”*
* RIN Briefing Note on Payment of Publication Fees
Institutional requirements
• Establish clear management arrangements for
Wellcome and other funders’ grants
• Set up funds in institutions (from fEC) to cover OA
charges
– Centrally managed? Devolved?
– Calculating fEC cost base
• Agree policies for researchers not funded by relevant
funders
• Consider relationship to library funding
• Develop clear institutional policy documents
• Undertake institution-wide publicity
• Provide proactive support for academics
Case study: recommendations to
Nottingham Research Committee*
1. All authors should be encouraged to deposit copies of their
papers in the Nottingham ePrints repository; papers will
then be forwarded to other repositories as appropriate.
2. The University should identify a central budget upon which
all authors in the institution can call to fund publication/OA
charges.
3. Wellcome-funded authors should be reminded of the
availability of funds to pay for their publication/OA charges.
4. Further internal publicity should be carried out in order to
inform academic staff of the new requirements of funders.
5. Arrangements should be put in place to monitor the
University’s compliance with funder requirements.
* Adopted November 2006
Case study: Nottingham OA fund
• Set up as a partnership between Research Innovation
Services (RIS) and Information Services
• Approved by University Research Committee in November
2006; procedures document approved in March 2007
• Administered centrally by RIS
• Designed to fund OA charges (for OA or hybrid journals)
not page/colour charges
• Available to all members of the University regardless of
their source of research funding
• Currently being monitored, but not rationed
• Additional funds; not diverted from periodical purchases
• To date, low usage: 75 requests in 18 months, average cost
per article of about £1400
Institutional actions
• Establish policies for managing Wellcome and
other OA funds
• Create general funds for all authors to cover
OA charges
• Agree implications for fEC cost base
• Set up institutional repository
• Finalise and implement clear procedures
• Carry out awareness raising
• Provide proactive support
References
• SHERPA JULIET (funder policies)
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
• SHERPA ROMEO (publisher copyright policies)
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
• RIN Briefing Note on Payment of Publication Fees
http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/Briefing%20Note%201%20%20Payment%20of%20Publication%20Fees.pdf