Representatives of DESY and the project openCost officially welcome the participants and open the workshop. The project partners will also provide a brief introduction to openCost.
At the University of Regensburg, all payments for publications must be made by the library. The fees, invoices and additional payment information are stored with the document in the repositorium. We present the metadata schema used, the provision via the oai interface, and the statistical analysis.
Founded more than 10 years ago, the JOIN² collaboration brings together eight research institutions for the development and operation of a full-fledged shared scholarly publication database and repository based on the Invenio open source framework for large-scale digital libraries. Preferring simplicity to complexity one of our corner stones is to build on well-defined work flows. This...
The OpenAPC initiative collects and disseminates datasets on fees paid for open access publishing under an open database license. OpenAPC is operated by BielefeldUniversity Library. The aims of OpenAPC are transparency and reproducibility of OA costs, as well as to illustrate the development of costs over time.
The current OpenAPC metadata schema is to be extended as part of the openCost...
The transformation of scientific publishing into Open Access is the impetus for a holistic view of the expenditure for access to scientific literature and for publishing. What happens on a small scale in a Publish & Read contract must also be the general approach for all expenditures and their funding, in accordance to the demand from funders (DFG, German Research Foundation) and policy advice...
Starting in 2019, the California Digital Library (CDL) has been negotiating transformative open access agreements with publishers on behalf of the ten campusesof the University of California (UC), which represents almost 10% of the publication output of the United States. Under the current set of agreements approximately half of all articles with a UC corresponding author are eligible to be...
Sharing experiences on acquiring, handling and using cost data. As the national Open Access coordinator and managing the Norwegian license consortium, Sikt processes a wide variety of data associated with the cost ofpublishing and agreements.
After a short overview of Austrian Transition to Open Access Two (AT2OA2), a national project supporting Open Access, the presentation will focus on the status quo regarding Open Access Cost Monitoring at Austrian Universities as well as on approaches to improve documentation and transparency regarding publication costs. The following aspects will be addressed: capturing and displaying (Open...
In my presentation, I’ll look at the current state of cost monitoring in Finland, drawing on my experience as the leader of FinELib’s APC project and the chair of an expert group chargedwith reviewing the total costs of OA for Finland. I’ll describe our approach including our attempts to harness the Finnish VIRTA Publication Information Service for the purposes of cost monitoring and not...
The DFG-funded Transform2Open project addresses the development of budgets, criteria, competencies, and related processes at research-performing organizations around the financial dimensions of the Open Access transformation.
The Transform2Open project supports transformation activities at research institutions in Germany through the following actions:
(1) Improving and further developing...
The content of this hands-on lab is to consider payments that cannot be clearly assigned to a publication. Cases are agreements with publishers, multiple payments for one publication or no assignment with a persistent identifier.
Based on the preliminary work of the project partners, their initial proposal for a metadata schema is discussed with the participants in order to fix any missingelements or inaccuracies. This will involve defining mandatory and optional elements, their format and any processing rules that may be necessary.
Today, quite a few terms exist to describe cost data. Still, as of now the precise definitions of those terms are often unclear or there exist several terms that describe seemingly the same entity. A well known example in the area of scholarly publishing is the "colour game" of Open Access (green, bronze, gold, platinum, diamond etc.) While several definitions exist there is still no definite...
The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) provides information on more than 110,000 electronic journals from all subject areas, including 74,000 freely available titles. Over 650 libraries and research institutions jointly maintain the EZB data, which is of high quality and up to date.
EZB data are used for various user services and numerous services for the supply of literature and research...
OpenAlex is an open index of millions of interconnected entities across the global research system. Unsub leverages data from OpenAlex to help libraries reevaluate their serials collections options. For costs, Unsub forecasts currently incorporate a-la-carte title subscription prices. We would like to incorporate APCs into Unsub to be able to account for institutional spend on APCs; and we...
Presentation of the lab results, wrap up & discussion
The Open Access Monitor Germany (OAM) records the publication output of German academic institutions in scientific journals and offers a freely available tool for analysis of the aggregated datasets to libraries, funders, and researchers. Through analyses of subscription fees and publication fees, the OAM helps to monitor and support the transition of the publishing system towards open access....
The OA Switchboard is a mission-driven, community led initiative designed to simplify the sharing of information between stakeholders about open access publications throughout the whole publication journey. It provides a standardised messaging protocol and shared infrastructure that is designed to operate and integrate with all stakeholder systems. Currently 19 publishers are live and...
