This presentation reports on the use of the JOIN2 APC module from DESY at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt. In contrast to DESY, there is no central office for all publication billing at the GSI Helmholtz Center and no approval procedure.
Topics will be problems of experimental use or "no" corresponding authors in the health research area, the usage as quality and...
The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) offers information on over 100,000 journals, with metadata managed by more than 660 libraries. As part of the openCost project, the EZB has been expanded and now offers information on publishing in journals, publication costs, and the funding conditions of institutions. This information is available to end users in the EZB and via its interfaces for...
In the past, centralised library budgets were used to ensure the best possible information supply through purchasing and licensing. However, due to the monopoly structures that have developed over time, this 'information budget 1.0' has reached its limits.
The aim of Open Access is to re-establish an adequate supply of information for the needs of science and scholarship.
However, in...
Within the framework of openCost, the project team has developed a metadata schema for costs associated with scholarly publishing, in collaboration with a number of various stakeholders. In addition to modelling cost data for individual items, modelling of contracts and their associated costs has also been developed. The metadata schema is needed to enable an automated and standardised...
We will give a short insight how we, as a Helmholtz Research Centre, use our institutional repository OceanRep to monitor open access publication costs. We started with the first steps in 2016 and are still learning. We will show what already works quite well and where we experience technical or organizational challenges.
As a project partner of the JOIN² cooperation [1] and thus also as a supporter of the openCost project, the University Library of RWTH Aachen University collects data on publication costs in its institutional repository. The cost information on articles from the DEAL project from the years 2022 and 2023 was successfully harvested and integrated for the first time to OpenAPC.
The two-layered...
Alongside the open access transformation process, the monitoring, allocation, analysis and presentation of (open access) publication costs becomes more and more important for research institutions to gain a better overview on their financialexpenditures for publishing. Christian Kaier and Melanie Stummvoll will talk about the Austrian approach to harmonise the monitoring of publication costs...
The french national Couperin consortium conducts each year a large-scale survey among its members to monitor and analyze the costs related to scientific publications from French laboratories. This survey covers the costs associated with immediate open access publication of scientific articles (APC), as well as other related expenses such as color illustrations and page overlength charges....
Since 2017, The National Library of Sweden is commissioned by the government to monitor the total expenditures for scholarly publishing at higher education institutions (HEI). The result is presented in a yearly reportto the government. The Bibsam Consortium negotiates national read and/or publish agreements with 30-plus publishers, which the HEIs can choose to participate in. The presentation...
The OpenAPC initiative collects and disseminates datasets on fees paid for open access publishing under an open database license. OpenAPC is operated by Bielefeld University Library. The aims of OpenAPC are transparency and reproducibility of OA costs, as well as to illustrate the development of costs over time. The initiative aggregates data on Open Access journal articles (APCs), Open Access...
Through the “Open Access Publication Funding” programme [1], the German Research Foundation (DFG) is providing scientific institutions with financial support for open access publication fees. One of the programme’s key objectives is to enable a system of transparent monitoring of publication fees at scientific institutions, with the intent to leverage to the national and international level....
Initiatives such as openCost play an important role in improving transparency and understanding around open access publication costs. There are other hidden costs and unintended consequences that open access is often criticised for: the growth of unsustainable business models, the rise of questionable journals that exploit the APC, and a less equitable publishing landscape.
However, it's a...
The Hands-on Lab offers practical insights and an open exchange for publication cost managers. The focus is on the effective processing of publication fees in scientific institutions as a contribution to the sustainable establishment of an information budget. We invite you to look over each other's shoulders as we demonstrate individual workflows and meet collective challenges. We all share...
Effective strategic decision-making in Open Science (OS) relies on a nuanced understanding of how journal business models influence market dynamics and research activities. This talk will explore how integrating detailed Open Cost Data with the advanced tools, data and evaluation frameworks from OpenAIRE [1] and the PathOS project [2] can support the assessment and optimization of OS...
For about ten years, the National Library of Finland and the FinELib consortium office (part of the National Library) have been monitoring Finland’s institutional expenditure to guide FinELib’s negotiations with publishers and to enable the administration of our existing agreements. Most major Finnish HEI’s now share their APC cost data with OpenAPC, while all Finnish HEI’s provide data for...
The University of Groningen (UG) Library conducted a financial investigation into its OA costs outside of the institutional R&P deals in 2022. This investigation showed that at least 1M€ per year is spent on Article Processing Charges outside of the deals. This is in addition to the 4M€ spent on R&P deals. The data was obtained via the financial system by downloading all invoices labeled as...
The ESAC Transformative Agreement Registry lists around 540 transformative deals for 2024, concluded with about 60 publishers and covering more than 60 countries. While these agreements follow the same underlying principle of combining open access publishing and reading with the ultimate goal of open access transformation, they tend to differ significantly in detail. Drawing on examples and...
As part of our work with cOAlition S, Cottage Labs has been involved in tracking the details of Transformative Agreements, and especially the changing lists of institutions and journals to which they apply. We use this information to give authors up-to-date information about the agreements that cover their work, to ensure compliant Open Access publishing.
Transformative Agreements are not a...
Driven by the openCost project, the EZB is being extended to provide researchers and authors with information on the costs of OA publishing, as well as on funding conditions and subsidies available at their own institution. The new features allow authors to use the EZB to navigate through the details of funding conditions and to estimate publication costs. Additionally, library staff or...
