Since 2021 the [oa.finder][1] displays information on list-price APCs for around 5.000 pure OA journals as derived from the DOAJ and more than 6.000 hybrid journals that come from an own longitudinal data collection. The later increased over time adding more publishers and hybrid journals to the collection. All APCs are converted at the historical spot rates to Euro. This unpublished data...
The working group ‘Systemlandschaft E-Ressourcen’ aims to achieve a better understanding of data exchange processes in the management of electronic resources (including e-journals, e-books, and databases). This is accomplished by systematically collecting, analyzing, and documenting data flows, including cost-related data, to enable academic libraries to visualize workflows, identify...
The systematic recording, evaluation and management of publication costs is becoming increasingly important in the context of increasingly complex open access transformation processes. At the University of Oldenburg, a central publication cost monitoring system and consolidated licence recording in Ex Libris Alma have been established for this purpose. The poster presents the structure,...
Open Library Economics (OLEcon) is an initiative of the ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. OLEcon offers journal editors support to publish in Diamond Open Access by either helping them to flip their journal or, in the case of a new publication, to appear directly in Diamond Open Access. Existing open access journals can also apply for OLEcon funding. Cost transparency plays an...
Achieving cost transparency in scholarly publishing depends on consistently recording and reporting expenditure data across institutional systems. This poster presents a practice oriented overview of how publication related costs can be managed within the cloud-based library management system Alma (Ex libris) to support auditability, reporting, and downstream reuse. We further integrate Alma...
When evaluating models for the financing of Diamond Open Access publications, the costs, their appropriateness and transparency are closely interdependent topics. More importantly, these are highly relevant criteria for institutions choosing to financially support Diamond Open Access publications. Consequently, the topic has its separate section in [KOALA's Requirements][1] that apply to...
The openCost project is developing a technical infrastructure that will make publication costs freely accessible via interfaces and formats. In the context of the open access transformation, this will enable greater cost transparency.
Due to its research profile (medicine and STEM subjects), Ulm University's publication output has largely been converted to a publication-based logic, and...
At the University of Hohenheim, a comprehensive technical and organisational workflow and cost-management framework for scholarly publishing is being developed, which simultaneously forms the basis of a university-wide information budget. The central instrument is the publication fund established in 2024, which is administratively managed by the Communication, Information and Media Centre...
Several projects in the field of open access transformation share the common goal with openCost of creating cost transparency by focussing on interrelated topics and tasks such as funding, financial sustainability, budgeting, monitoring, appropriate workflows and tools, networking, and promoting exchange. Four projects are particularly closely linked: Since 2019, open-access.network has...
Especially in the context of the open access transformation and the associated shift from subscription costs to publication costs, transparent monitoring of available funds and expenses regarding information provision and publishing activities are paramount for scientific institutions. It is an important instrument to track and regulate cost developments. In Germany there have been several...
