Library Open Access Publishing Funds
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The document discusses open access (OA) publishing funds in libraries, particularly in Canada, highlighting the characteristics, challenges, and successes of these funds. It provides examples from Brock University and the University of Calgary, detailing funding amounts, criteria for funding, and the importance of OA in reshaping scholarly communication. The summary also emphasizes the growing acceptance of OA, the role of libraries in supporting research, and upcoming trends in funding practices.
Library Open Access Publishing Funds
- 1. Library Open Access Publishing Funds ELIZABETH YATES, SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION LIBRARIAN, BROCK UNIVERSITY CALJ @ CONGRESS 2014 ~ MAY 25, 2014 Free to share or reuse with attribution
- 2. No, thank you I haven’t drunk the OA Kool-Aid
- 3. Today’s outcomes You will recall: •main characteristics of library Open Access funds in Canada: •size, scope, criteria, successes & challenges •ideas for how journals can work with authors and OA funds to maximize potential of OA publishing
- 4. Gold Open Access is … •Via immediate publication in a journal free to the end user •One flavour of Open Access •Enabled through a variety of business models •Soon to be mandated by Canada’s research funding agencies
- 5. Gold Open Access is … •Often associated with Article Processing Charges (APCs) to cover the costs of publishing •Info from Directory of Open Access Journals, May 2014 OA journals in the DOAJ No APCs: 6467 APCs: 2567 Conditional charges: 520 No info: 145
- 6. Libraries respond to Gold OA APCs by: •Helping researchers evaluate journals •Raising awareness of author copy-rights •Purchasing publisher memberships covering portions/all of APCs •AND: by helping cover the costs via direct payment of APCs
- 7. “By setting aside resources for the express purpose of encouraging authors to publish in open-access journals, open-access funds demonstrate an institution’s concrete support for reshaping the economics of scholarly communication.” -- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Image: 'Monarch Life Cycle’ ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/22357152@N02/4813041825 ~ Found on flickrcc.net
- 8. Library OA publishing funds U.S. LIBRARIES N=22 CANADIAN LIBRARIES N=13 Sources: SPARC (2014). Open access funds in action. bit.ly/OAfunds; CARL (2014). Support for OA at CARL libraries. bit.ly/CARLOAfunds
- 9. Institutional OA funds •Globally, about 75 academic/research institutions offer OA publishing funds •Growing phenomenon: 75 now versus 30 in 2012 Nariani, R., & Fernandez, L. (2012). Open Access Publishing: What Authors Want. College & Research Libraries, 73(2), 182-195. Open Access Directory. (2014). OA journal funds. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_funds
- 10. A tale of two funds BROCK UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Total fund: $10,000 Max APC per article: $2,500 Grants per author: 1 Established: 2011 UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY LIBRARIES & CULTURAL RESOURCES* Total fund: $200,000 Max APC per article: unlimited Grants per author: unlimited Established: 2008 (first in Canada) *Source: Waller, A. (2014). Five+ years of the Open Access Authors’ Fund at the University of Calgary.
- 11. OA FUND STATS BROCK UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY ARTICLES FUNDED Since 2011: 15 Since 2008: 492 Total amount expended by Open Access Fund: $21,322.94 $694,798 Average APC paid: Highest APC paid: Lowest APC paid: $1,254.29 $2,407.50 $206.00 $1415.07 $3669.78 $149.67 Top three journals: PLoS One (4) PLoS One (33), BMC Health Services Research (18), BMC Medical Education/BMC Public Health (tie at 14) Top three publishers: PLoS (4), Hindawi (2) BioMed Central (261), Hindawi (91), PLoS (39)
- 12. Library OA funds: the landscape Average amount of fund: = $74,615 Mode: $100,000 (n=4) Per grant maximum: ◦Avg. $3,000 ◦High – unlimited ◦Low - $2,500 Image: 'Great Lakes in Sunglint (NASA, International Space+Station,+06/14/12)' http://www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/7637356614 ~ Found on flickrcc.net
- 13. How & why we do it … Hint: it’s not for the fame and fortune Image: “Metallica at Rock Werchter 2009”. www.flickr.com/photos/27539822@N05/3697785107
- 14. Population: who gets $ •Most common – faculty, grad students, staff: grant holder must be aligned with institution •Common variations – postdoctoral fellows •Some notable variations: •Adjuncts – Calgary •Undergrads – Simon Fraser, UofT •Visiting scholars - York •Librarians – explicitly mentioned at Western, UofT
- 15. Journal criteria: what gets $ •Universal criteria: peer-review •Very common*: ALL journal content must be OA: •Immediately, freely accessible online •No embargoes •No hybrid content (only certain articles OA) *(n=11/13 Canada, n=12/22 U.S.)
- 16. Why not hybrid? powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Chimera_Physiology • Double-dipping • Less discoverability and lower impact BUT! Some libraries do fund hybrid OA: • If publishers reduce subscriptions (Calgary, Utah) • Grants $ is less (Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin-Madison)
- 17. Other common criteria •Use other grant $ first •Authors retain copyright •Only OA costs covered – not reprints, colour illustrations •Fee schedule is public •Fee waiver for financial hardship •Deposit in institutional repository
- 18. Now, the why: •Support open access to scholarly information •Support our researchers + our institution •Support movement away from unsustainable journal subscription costs •Education + outreach > raises library’s profile
- 20. Article impact Accesses: 6394 > huge Altmetric score: captures other forms of impact e.g. social media shares
- 21. Social media reaction to Tsiani’s article
- 23. What does all this mean for you? If you’re eyeing OA: ◦Author funding more accessible for fully OA journals ◦Consider your copyright agreements ◦Make your fee structure transparent ◦Suggest authors seek funding from their libraries OR their research support departments: ◦ Some offer grants to cover publishing charges which can be directed to APCs (Brock, Lethbridge, Saskatchewan)
- 24. Let’s hear your thoughts Some questions: 1. What do you think of the criteria we use? 2. How could library OA funds help Canadian journals? Image: 'LISTEN’ ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/23724661@N00/8672736002 ~ Found on flickrcc.net
- 25. On the horizon •Standard criteria for library OA funds: • Assessment • Awareness • Ease •Working with campus partners (e.g. Office of Research Services) to enhance funding •Regional/subject-based funds e.g. SCOAP3 •Cost sharing between authors and libraries
- 26. On the horizon •Central funding from granting agencies to institutions to cover APCs e.g. Wellcome Trust •Journal “memberships” e.g. PLoS, BMC, Hindawi And maybe … cuts/cancellations
- 27. Summing up •Library OA funds exist to support their researchers and institutions as well as the OA movement •Funds are generally open to faculty & grad students •Most support available for fully OA publications •If you have questions or concerns about OA, talk to your librarian -- we won’t shush you
- 28. References Canadian Association of Research Libraries (2014). Support for OA at CARL libraries. bit.ly/CARLOAfunds Cryer, E., & Collins, M. (2011). Electronic Journal Forum: Incorporating Open Access into Libraries. Serials Review, 37103-107. doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2011.03.002 Fruin, C. & Rascoe, F. (2014). Funding open access journal publishing: article processing charges. College & Research Libraries News. 75(5), 240-243. Harris, S. (2013). Implementing Open Access APCs: the role of academic libraries. Report on a roundtable commissioned by SAGE in association with JISC. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/apc.pdf Nariani, R., & Fernandez, L. (2012). Open Access Publishing: What Authors Want. College & Research Libraries, 73(2), 182-195. Nariani, R., & Fernandez, L. (2011). Open Access funds: a Canadian library survey. Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, (6)1. Retrieved from https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/1424/2083 Open Access Directory. (2014). OA journal funds. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_funds Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. (n.d.). Open access funds: funds introduction. http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/funds/intro Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (2014). Open access funds in action. bit.ly/OAfunds Waller, A. (2014). Five+ years of the Open Access Authors’ Fund at the University of Calgary.
Editor's Notes
- #2: Subtitle: “OA is great, but where’s the cash?” > libraries have some …
- #3: While I think open access to publicly funded research is vitally important for the public good, and while I know libraries can’t keep paying exorbitant costs for subscription journals, I realize that OA journal publishing is far from perfect and I’m not here to try and sell you a bill of goods.
- #7: An open-access fund is defined as: "a pool of money set aside by an institution to support publication models that enable free, immediate, online distribution of, and access to, scholarly research“ (SPARC)
- #9: I can provide a list of Canadian libraries with OA funds that I compiled and point you to another list from SPARC that includes US libraries
- #11: These two funds represent the smallest and largest in Canada
- #13: $970,000 divided by 13 libs = $74,615> not very meaningful bec so much variation Mode: most frequently occurring number
- #15: Generally – folks who have or have had formal relationship with institution > obviously we want our institutional funds to help institution’s community of scholars
- #16: Peer-review – while problematic, still the common currency for quality of scholarship While some funds specify that the journal must be fully OA – i.e. all content openly accessible – others note that the journals must be listed in DOAJ or meet DOAJ selection criteria: which includes proviso that “all content is freely available” Interesting that higher proportion of Canadian funds mandate full OA versus US funds
- #17: It’s not financially sensible or sustainable for libraries to pay for subscription journals AND to pay our authors to publish Open Access articles in journals that are otherwise closed As well, there is evidence that OA articles published in hybrid journals do not enjoy the same higher citation effect experienced by articles published in fully OA journals
- #19: Supports researchers: – who want to publish OA but can’t pay --who want control over their rights as authors It would be lovely if there was a magic switch we could flip to start covering OA publishing fees and stop paying exorbitant journal subscription fees but this won’t be happening any time soon, if ever. But having an OA publishing fund is a venue to help libraries divert their scarce funding away from big commercial publishers and to more directly support our researchers We also know that while our researchers express support for principles of OA, their publishing behaviours don’t reflect this > so funds can help them overcome financial barriers to OA publishing Lista Tsiani, recipient of OA publishing grant from Brock U library: “Publishing my work in an open access journal will mean that my work will be fully and permanently available for free access to the scientific community. This will have a positive impact to Brock University as more scientists will become aware of our Institution and the important scientific work is taking place here.”
- #20: This article was funded by Brock’s Open Access fund. I worked with the author to find a suitable OA venue and suggested Cancer Cell International. It was a good fit and her article was accepted July, published in January. It created a very strong reaction including significant positive media coverage and social media sharing. This kind of impact – sharing critical research results which can affect people’s lives – really highlights the significance of Open Access. My role in funding the article and supporting the author made me feel really good.
- #24: If you are an OA journal, or considering the transition, you can maximize your authors’ eligibility for funding by thinking about the common criteria for library/institutional OA funds