Conveners
The openCost project: Keynote "Paying is Not Enough" and the openCost Metadata Schema
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The openCost project: OpenAPC: New features and extensions in the context of openCost
- Julia Bartlewski (Universität Bielefeld)
The openCost project: openCost & EZB And The Future of openCost
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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...
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...
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...
