Part of Jisc's open access summer series of community events in 2018.

1. APC spend and OA negotiations
AnnaVernon, Jisc Collections Service Manager,
01/08/2018

2. We’re paying more APCs
Growth in APCs, 2013-2016
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3. …and the average APC is rising
Average APC, 2013-2016
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4. What we found:
1.The market for APCs looks a lot like that of subscriptions
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5. We’re spending on the same publishers
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Jubb M et al., Monitoring the transition to open access. London, Universities UK:
http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2017/monitoring-transition-open-access-2017.pdf

6. …and on the same journals
Hybrid/Full OA expenditure 2013-2016
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7. The average APC in full OA journals is rising
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Average APC by journal type, 2013-2016

8. »We’re spending more on APCs
› More APCs paid
› Higher average APC
»The APC market looks like the subscription market
› Same big publishers
› Same hybrid journals
› Full OA cost rising
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9. Hardening approach to negotiations
Agreements must support a transition to open access
Institutions and funders need and expect agreements to deliver a transition to
open access. This means a contractually binding commitment to rapidly increasing
the volume of UK articles made OA on publication
Agreements must lower the cost of access and dissemination, and all costs for
access and publishing must be sustainable and affordable.
Improved workflows and administration for both authors and institutions
More exacting service level agreements - penalties in the event of reduced
performance/downtime
Options to recognise institutional diversity
Data reporting requirements to enable the evaluation of agreements and greater
financial transparencyApril 2018

10. » Currently in negotiation with Wiley, T&F, Springer
Nature
» Represents c£45million of expenditure
» Seeking financially sustainable agreements that will
make all UK research output OA
» Initial proposals have all been rejected
» Have sought and gained support from library directors
to take a tougher stance
» To conclude the negotiations successfully support is
required at the highest level

11. Springer Compact
OA articles published by
UK authors:
Annual growth of 279%
over 2015
€15,126,400
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6,902 articles
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12. – Focus is on “pay to publish” agreements
– Promote pure open access journals and publishers
– Divert funding to other open access publishing models or
platforms (cooperative publishing, memberships, University
presses, etc.)
› Know your data!
› There is no one-size fits all publishers or all insitutions
› Risks distributed between parties - mechanisms for over- or
underperformance
› Integrate workflow requirements into agreement.
› Monitor performance!
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Strategies for Open Access:

13. Case study 1: HSS publisher w high UK authorship
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£1.1 million2017 total 2406 articles
@£1400 £3.3m

14. Step 1, understanding spend and data
» Need a full picture of total spend with a publisher
» Number of arts in each Hybrid Journal, as a proportion of the total
number of arts in each Hybrid Journal;
» Details of all Open Access Articles by corresponding authors for each
Institution:
· ArticleTitle inc DOI
· Corresponding Author
· Institution Name
» Understand potential publication levels so we can model for scenarios
» Need to arrive at ‘fair APC’ OpenAPC? Publisher data?
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15. Step 2, working through the model
» Aim is to arrive at a total figure that is within roughly the same funding
envelope
» For pay to publish models cost will need (eventually) to fall to those
publishing intensive institutions – need to manage this?
» Any increases/decreases need to be reallocated
» During a global transition we are likely to still need contributions from
all types of institutions, not exactly a full transition but we get more OA
and greater stability?
» Agreements should be transitional - if they will continue for more than
e.g. 3 agreement terms then they have failed.
» Yes, reliant on a global shift, but the UK has put it’s money where its
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