Librarians are working hard to understand how much money their university is spending on open access article processing fees (APCs), and how much of what they subscribe to is available as OA. This information is useful when making subscription decisions, considering Read and Publish agreements, rethinking library open access budgets, and designing Institution-wide OA policies.
This session will talk concretely about how to calculate the impact of Open Access on *your* university. It will provide an overview on how to estimate the amount of money spent across a university on Open Access fees: we will discuss underlying concepts behind calculating OA article-processing fee (APC) spend and give an overview of useful data sources, including:
FlourishOA
Microsoft Academic Graph
PLOS API
Unpaywall Journals
We will also talk about Open Access on the subscription side, including how much of what you subscribe to is available as open access and how you can use that in your subscription decisions and negotiations.
The presenters are the cofounders of Our Research, the nonprofit company behind Unpaywall, the primary source of Open Access data worldwide.
Heather Piwowar, Co-founder, Our Research
Jason Priem, Co-founder, Our Research
18. Previous approaches
- Just Gold OA https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.12092.pdf
- University accounting data https://insights.uksg.org/article/10.1629/uksg.451/
19. But what if you also want Hybrid (define),
and don't have accounting data?
26. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
27. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
28. Sources of OA data
- 1findr
- Scopus
- Web of Science
- Dimensions
- Unpaywall
29. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
30. sources of affiliation data
- where to get it
- Web of Science
- Scopus
- Dimensions
- Lens
- Microsoft Academic Graph
- standardization (GRID, ROR)
31.
32. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
33. source of APC data
- publisher pages
- OpenAPC: https://treemaps.intact-project.org/
- (FlourishOA no longer updated)
37. Transformative agreements
- ESAC list of transformative agreements:
https://esac-initiative.org/about/transformative-agreements/agreement-registry/
39. Author perks
- "Aside from the results of individual negotiations, there may
be other forms of benefit, for example due to frequency of
publication, prepayment deals, society memberships or
editor/reviewer activities"
40. Paid for by a combo of sources
- Nearly half of respondents (47% of fully OA authors, 44% of
hybrid OA authors) combine two or more sources of funding
in order to cover their APC
- Monaghan, Jessica; Lucraft, Mithu; Allin, Katie (2020): 'APCs in the Wild': Could Increased
Monitoring and Consolidation of Funding Accelerate the Transition to Open Access?. figshare.
Journal contribution. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11988123.v4
41. For a number of interviewees, the monitoring of APC payments
is noted as being a “bureaucratic headache”, with resourcing
within the library the biggest obstacle
Complicated.
But for a given institution, current list price is a good start.
42. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
43. which author pays
- corresponding author
- last author
- richest author
- average of all authors
- ???
48. - in general, seems to average out
- remember we are focusing on hybrid -- lots of gold OA
publishers like PLOS have good data on corresponding
authors and who paid -- ask them.
49. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
51. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of OA papers
78. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of OA papers
79. Now ... what to do about it?
- Raise your eyebrows (stay with me)
- Raise your hand and raise your voice
- Raise your expectations
80. - Raise your eyebrows
- learn about your own OA spend
81. - Raise your voice
- talk, listen to what others have done
- #CORE2020 submission
- Unsub User Discussion Group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/unsub-discuss
- Other ideas in question time or chat
82. - Raise your expectations
- negotiate, make deals
- negotiate better on hybrid journals (double dipping)
- inform a Read and Publish agreement
- inform a Publish and Publish (PLOS) agreement
- plan around APC funds or awards
83. - Raise your expectations
- negotiate, make deals
Remember: be bold. change is afoot.
84. Go for it!
- Raise your eyebrows
- Raise your hand and raise your voice
- Raise your expectations
85. Additional reading
- Used same approach proposed here, for Australian and NZ
unis: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2258&context=iatul
- APC price changes
https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/11/26/apc-price-changes-2019-2018-by-journal-and-by-publisher/
- OpenAPC technical article
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2932530/2932531/439-4151-1-PB.pdf
- Who pays
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11988123.v4