The Transition to Open Access Progress So Far

The Transition to Open Access: Progress So Far Michael Jubb Research Information Network RENU Autumn Workshop 17 th September 2014 Oxford Brookes University

Agenda q q q Policy developments Publishers and intermediaries Universities and libraries Recent reports and data Monographs Research data

Policy Developments UK q Finch Report 2012 q q RCUK q q q Review of Progress 2013 International q q q Implementation review 2014 Wellcome (and other medical research charities) Funding Councils and REF G 8 meeting and follow-up Science Europe, Global Research Council, ICSU…. . EU and Horizon 2020 q q q USA q q Guidelines December 2013 Other EU countries OSTP Memorandum 2013 q Do. E plans in public domain China q Academy of Sciences and National Science Foundation statement

Publishers and Intermediaries

Publishers and OA q q q Most journals from major publishers now hybrid New OA journals q Elsevier Schizophrenia Research: Cognition q Wiley Clinical Case Reports q Springer EJNMMI Physics q OUP Journal of Law and the Biosciences q Royal Society Open Science q Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Science DOAJ nearing 10 k titles

Publishers and OA q Quality issues q Beall’s list, and the John Bohannan sting q q Elsevier and take-down notices q q q impact and response from DOAJ and OASPA Academia. edu and Research. Gate Tim Gowers and the Cost of Knowledge campaign CERN and the launch of the SCOAP 3 initiative

Payment systems and intermediaries q Publishers’ deposit account and membership schemes q q q workflows for processing, invoicing, collecting and reporting on APCs Jisc APC pilot service Copyright Clearance Center q q links between Rights. Link and Editorial Manager systems See also CCC/ALPSP OA News and Resources website http: //www. copyright. com/content/cc 3/en/open_access. html

Universities and Libraries

Policies and Processes q q q Green and Gold institutional funds for payment of APCs libraries working with research services q q implementation of CRISs developing workflows sharing good practice ‘work in progress’

Some key issues q publishers <-> authors q q B 2 C model no institutional touch point q q what’s being/has beenpublished? varying policies q q version licence embargo price

Costs q subscriptions, APCs and the offsets issue q Willetts’ three principles a meaningful proportion of an institution’s total APC costs to be offset against total subscription payments (or vice versa) q a sliding scale to be applied to this proportion to incentivise use of Gold OA q a limit applied to the total value of offset, taking account of administrative costs incurred by institution and publisher q

Costs q RLUK ‘framework papers’ q q q 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 q 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 q q 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/WTP 054773. htm q q q 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. uk/templates/asset-relay. cfm? frm. Asset. File. ID=13584 q feasibility of OA in HSS q HEFCE q analysis of OA for articles submitted to REF 2014 96% of outputs complied with REF 2020 requirements q 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 q survey of learned society publishers q Taylor and Francis Open Access Survey 2014 http: //www. tandf. co. uk/journals/explore/open-access-survey-june 2014. pdf q q changing attitudes of T&F authors UUK OA Group………………. .

Monographs

Monographs: current initiatives q OAPEN UK http: //oapen-uk. jiscebooks. org/ q gathering evidence to help stakeholders make decisions on the future of OA monograph publishing in HSS q HEFCE Expert Reference Group http: //www. hefce. ac. uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/monographs/ q q AHRC/BL project on academic books of the future Commercial publishers q Palgrave Open http: //www. palgrave. com/page/about-us-palgrave-open/ q Bloomsbury Academic http: //www. bloomsbury. com/uk/academic/online-resources-and-ebooks/bloomsbury-open-content/ q q Other initiatives Knowledge Unlatched http: //www. knowledgeunlatched. org/ q Open Book Publishers http: //www. openbookpublishers. com/ q Open Edition http: //www. openedition. org/ q Open Library of the Humanities https: //www. openlibhums. org/

Research Data

Research data q Science as an Open Enterprise q q q Research Sector Transparency Board RCUK Data principles q q q UK Open Research Data Forum EPSRC mandate EU Horizon 2020 USA OSTP memorandum Research Data Alliance Global Research Council, ICSU, G 8 meetings………