openCost: Navigating Cost Transparency

Session

Workshop

18 Mar 2026, 14:00

28. Extending the openCost exchange format beyond journal articles: A hands-on lab for (other) text-based publications

18/03/2026, 14:00

The openCost exchange format currently provides a standardized way to share publication cost data for journal articles. While this approach has proven to be a practical and widely applicable starting point, it does not yet sufficiently cover other text-based publication types that play an important role in scholarly publishing.

This hands-on lab focuses on how the openCost exchange format...

25. You can’t standardise what you don’t capture: The openCost internal format and a MyCoRe implementation demo

Kathleen Neumann (Verbundzentrale des GBV), Lisa-Marie Stein (L (Bibliothek und Dokumentation))

19/03/2026, 09:30

One key focus of the second phase of the openCost project is the development of a generic openCost “internal format”:

A prerequisite for using and integrating the openCost exchange format is to record publication cost data systematically within the institution. The information must simply be available in order to be processed further. However, many institutions are not yet able to record...