Calculating how much your University spends on Open Access--and what to do about it!
- 1. Calculating how much your University spends on Open Access and what to do about it! Heather Piwowar @unsub_org June 11, 2020 #NASIG2020
- 3. Goal for today: How much money is your university paying in open access fees?
- 5. You’re already using Unpaywall if you use: ● Web of Science ● Scopus ● ProQuest Summon ● OCLC WorldCat ● EBSCO EDS ● DS Dimensions ● Lens ● etc..
- 7. Non-profit, open source, open data, open infrastructure
- 15. What does that look like for your authors?
- 16. How much is it costing your authors, and where is the money coming from?
- 17. Goal: How much money is your university paying in open access fees?
- 18. Previous approaches - Just Gold OA https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.12092.pdf - University accounting data https://insights.uksg.org/article/10.1629/uksg.451/
- 19. But what if you also want Hybrid (define), and don't have accounting data?
- 20. Easy! Papers your authors publish as OA X How much it costs them to publish there
- 21. Not so Easy :( Papers your authors publish as OA X How much it costs them to publish there
- 22. Not so Easy :( Papers your authors publish as OA X How much it costs them to publish there
- 23. Not so Easy :( Papers your authors publish as OA X How much it costs them to publish there
- 24. Not so Easy :( Papers your authors publish as OA X How much it costs them to publish there ... predicted out five years!
- 25. That's ok, we got this.
- 26. APC calculation steps - Which papers - OA - affiliation - How much money - APC costs - allocation - Forecasting - growth in costs - growth in number of papers
- 27. APC calculation steps - Which papers - OA - affiliation - How much money - APC costs - allocation - Forecasting - growth in costs - growth in number of papers
- 28. Sources of OA data - 1findr - Scopus - Web of Science - Dimensions - Unpaywall
- 29. APC calculation steps - Which papers - OA - affiliation - How much money - APC costs - allocation - Forecasting - growth in costs - growth in number of papers
- 30. sources of affiliation data - where to get it - Web of Science - Scopus - Dimensions - Lens - Microsoft Academic Graph - standardization (GRID, ROR)
- 32. APC calculation steps - Which papers - OA - affiliation - How much money - APC costs - allocation - Forecasting - growth in costs - growth in number of papers
- 33. source of APC data - publisher pages - OpenAPC: https://treemaps.intact-project.org/ - (FlourishOA no longer updated)
- 36. But complicated: not just list price -
- 37. Transformative agreements - ESAC list of transformative agreements: https://esac-initiative.org/about/transformative-agreements/agreement-registry/
- 38. OA agreements
- 39. Author perks - "Aside from the results of individual negotiations, there may be other forms of benefit, for example due to frequency of publication, prepayment deals, society memberships or editor/reviewer activities"
- 40. Paid for by a combo of sources - Nearly half of respondents (47% of fully OA authors, 44% of hybrid OA authors) combine two or more sources of funding in order to cover their APC - Monaghan, Jessica; Lucraft, Mithu; Allin, Katie (2020): 'APCs in the Wild': Could Increased Monitoring and Consolidation of Funding Accelerate the Transition to Open Access?. figshare. Journal contribution. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11988123.v4
- 41. For a number of interviewees, the monitoring of APC payments is noted as being a “bureaucratic headache”, with resourcing within the library the biggest obstacle Complicated. But for a given institution, current list price is a good start.
- 42. APC calculation steps - Which papers - OA - affiliation - How much money - APC costs - allocation - Forecasting - growth in costs - growth in number of papers
- 43. which author pays - corresponding author - last author - richest author - average of all authors - ???
- 45. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.12092.pdf The results of the comparison are given in ‘publication units’. A ‘publication unit’ is defined as a full publication an institution has to pay for
- 46. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.12092.pdf The results of the comparison are given in ‘publication units’. A ‘publication unit’ is defined as a full publication an institution has to pay for
- 48. - in general, seems to average out - remember we are focusing on hybrid -- lots of gold OA publishers like PLOS have good data on corresponding authors and who paid -- ask them.
- 49. APC calculation steps - Which papers - OA - affiliation - How much money - APC costs - allocation - Forecasting - growth in costs - growth in number of papers
- 51. APC calculation steps - Which papers - OA - affiliation - How much money - APC costs - allocation - Forecasting - growth in costs - growth in number of OA papers
- 53. Now to make it real - Practical ways to calculate this: - OpenAPC - Unsub
- 57. @unsub_org
- 58. Source of your institution's APC data: - GRID/ROR, Microsoft Academic Graph
- 59. Source of OA data: - Unpaywall
- 60. APC approach - hybrid and gold - fractional authorship
- 61. # authors from your institution #authors total
- 62. # authors from your institution #authors total Summed over all papers in that journal
- 63. Video with some gory nerdy details: https://vimeo.com/417000352
- 65. Also calculates and uses OA on subscription side!
- 66. Also calculates and uses OA on subscription side!
- 73. one COUNTER file What does it take to get started?
- 75. 300 libraries Who else is using it?
- 76. Saving $5M SUNY Elsevier cancellation -Inside Higher Ed
- 77. “Unpaywall changed the conversation for us.” SUNY Elsevier cancellation
- 78. APC calculation steps - Which papers - OA - affiliation - How much money - APC costs - allocation - Forecasting - growth in costs - growth in number of OA papers
- 79. Now ... what to do about it? - Raise your eyebrows (stay with me) - Raise your hand and raise your voice - Raise your expectations
- 80. - Raise your eyebrows - learn about your own OA spend
- 81. - Raise your voice - talk, listen to what others have done - #CORE2020 submission - Unsub User Discussion Group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/unsub-discuss - Other ideas in question time or chat
- 82. - Raise your expectations - negotiate, make deals - negotiate better on hybrid journals (double dipping) - inform a Read and Publish agreement - inform a Publish and Publish (PLOS) agreement - plan around APC funds or awards
- 83. - Raise your expectations - negotiate, make deals Remember: be bold. change is afoot.
- 84. Go for it! - Raise your eyebrows - Raise your hand and raise your voice - Raise your expectations
- 85. Additional reading - Used same approach proposed here, for Australian and NZ unis: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2258&context=iatul - APC price changes https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/11/26/apc-price-changes-2019-2018-by-journal-and-by-publisher/ - OpenAPC technical article https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2932530/2932531/439-4151-1-PB.pdf - Who pays https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11988123.v4
- 86. Thanks! Questions? team@ourresearch.org free demo and guided tour: unsub.org, @unsub_org