Pathways to Open Access UCs bigtent approach to

Pathways to Open Access – UC’s big-tent approach to transforming scholarly communications Günter Waibel , Associate Vice Provost & Executive Director, California Digital Library @guwa FORCE 2019 Keynote October 17 2019

Pathways to Open Access

What’s at stake? “Imagine if instead we said we will no longer conceal cancer’s secrets in a paywall journal [. . . ] and instead make all that we know open to everyone so that the world can join the global campaign to end cancer in our lifetimes? [. . . ] This question matters. ” Joe Biden, (at the time) Vice President of the USA (2016) https: //medium. com/cancer-moonshot/here-s-what-the-vice-president-said-to-the-largest-convening-of-cancer-researchers-in-the-country-3007 bb 196 dbd

Room for improvement! https: //peerj. com/articles/4375/

Progress requires many coalitions (not just one) and vs.

Necessity is the mother of invention

Faculty: The Declaration of Rights and Principles

The California Digital Library Strategic Vision Through CDL’s commitment to sustainable open scholarship, an everwider range of freely available research informs ever-more potent responses to real-world challenges. Together with the UC campus Libraries and our other partners, we amplify the academy’s capacity for innovation, knowledge creation and research breakthroughs and enable the University of California to produce a measurable impact valued by the state, the nation and the world. https: //cdlib. org/about/mission-vision-and-values/

Zooming in on a pathway: Publisher negotiations for transformative agreements

Why? The people of California would like to know. . . UC Regent Eloy Ortiz Oakley

Today. . . *Only 15% of UC authored articles are immediately OA

Tomorrow. . .

The Author Experience: incentivizing OA ● Library financial transactions are handled in aggregate each quarter ●

Benefits for authors

Why we like this model Good for the academy → Mission aligned for a public research university Good for faculty → Increased readership and impact Good for library budgets → Research funders pay their share of publication Good for the publishing ecosystem → Authors become economic actors

In summary, here’s the journey we’re on Today - _unmanaged, escalating OA economy _ Subscriptions and APCs are funded and paid for separately in the same journals, without any relationship between them Tomorrow (or sooner) - _transitional OA agreements _ Subscriptions and APCs covered by a single, transformative agreement, with one type of fee offsetting the other to eliminate double-dipping and help control the total cost to the university Eventually - _a primarily OA world_ Subscription payments largely disappear with funding re-allocated to OA support (both APCs and other funding models)

It didn’t quite work out that way. . . Kell, Gtretchen. (2019). Why UC split with publishing giant Elsevier. Retrieved from https: //news. berkeley. edu/2019/02/28/why-uc-split -with-publishing-giant-elsevier/ UC Office of Scholarly Communication. (2019). UC and Elsevier: Overview. Retrieved from https: //osc. universityofcalifornia. edu/open-accessat-uc/publisher-negotiations/uc-and-elsevier/ UC Office of Scholarly Communication. (2019). Fact check: What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier. Retrieved from https: //osc. universityofcalifornia. edu/2019/08/factcheck-uc-and-elsevier/

Post-Elsevier ILL: modest

ILL forecast vs actual requests UC’s Elsevier Usage: Jan - Mar 2019 Article Downloads & Estimated vs. Actual Post-Shut-Off ILL 2% (July - Sept. 2019)

Faculty reaction “Boycott ELSEVIER and support affordable, open-access scholarly publishing” (https: //www. change. org/p/elsevierboycott-elsevier-and-support-affordable -open-access-scholarly-publishing) “Support the UC's "publish & read" proposal to Elsevier” (https: //petitions. moveon. org/sign/suppo rt-the-ucspublish? r_hash=R 6 c 4 sw. Qv&source=s. tw) The Cost of Knowledge (http: //thecostofknowledge. com/)

Impact of a failed negotiation https: //osc. universityofcalifornia. edu/open-access-at-uc/publisher-negotiations/uc-and-elsevier-impact/#library

Zooming out to Pathways to Open Access

UC Open Access policies https: //accountability. universityofcalifornia. edu/2019/chapters/chapter-9. html

Publishing Infrastructure & California Digital Library (CDL), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), Longleaf Services, LYRASIS, and Strategies for Open Science (Stratos)

TSPOA TRANSITIONING SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS TO OA ● Support ● Incubate & pilot ● Refer & consult ● Advocate ● Report https: //tspoa. org/

Back to transformative agreements: CUP agreement

Join us!

What you can do! Build a faculty + library coalition Faculty Librarians your open access values are beating heart of the coalition bring open access to life by advancing your faculty’s values

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@guwa Thank you!