Transcript Supporting Open Access: institutional OA funds Mary Robinson SHERPA, University of Nottingham 21st January 2009

Supporting Open Access:
institutional OA funds
Mary Robinson
SHERPA, University of Nottingham
21st January 2009
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PaidOA.html
Open access (OA) mandates
 UK Research Councils
 Charities & Independent funders
Wellcome Trust
British Heart Foundation
Cancer Research UK
Etc
 International
European Research Council
Open access (OA) mandates
 UK: RCUK
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AHRC
BBSRC
ESRC
MRC
NERC
STFC
UK: charities/ independent
funders
British Heart Foundation
Cancer Research UK
Wellcome Trust
etc
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International
Government and independent funders
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www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet
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
JISC Open Access Publication
Charge Surveys
 Researchers:
4%
15%
Funder OA grant
45%
Grant
Employer/institution
Author
31%
 Institution:
“6 institutions have a central OA fund, 4 have a
School or Faculty or Departmental OA fund”
Case study: Nottingham OA
fund
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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
Promoted within institution along side repository
Additional funds; not diverted from periodical purchases
To date, low usage: 75 requests in 18 months, average cost per
article of about £1400
Other institutions?
 University of Amsterdam
 University of Calgary Canada
 Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/openaccessfund
 Also
 University of Tilburg
 University of Delft
 Are any of your institutions setting up a fund?
 Are your Universities checking for compliance with
mandates?
References
 SHERPA JULIET (funder policies)
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http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
 SHERPA ROMEO (publisher copyright policies)
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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
 JISC Open Access Publication Charge Surveys
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/aboutus/workinggro
ups/jiscoapubcharge.doc
Thank you