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...
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...
