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- 1. Open Access Publication: the University Perspective Dr Ian M Carter Director of Research and Enterprise University of Sussex Chair Association of Research Managers and Administrators (UK)
- 2. Institutional Attitudes, Strategies and Policies Reasons for Supporting Open Access Institutional purpose to disseminate Funding obligation Approaches to publication and dissemination Active versus laissez-faire; publication strategies Budget for dissemination? Positions of key individuals, level of integration VP / PVC Research; Librarian; Director of Research Levels of awareness
- 3. Drivers and Inhibitors Funder mandates A range of funders now mandate But variable across subject areas Research management and profile; researcher needs; research communication External assessment / metrics Citation rates (not journal impact factors) Economics
- 4. Economics Shifts costs from consumer to producer OA charges are an additional cost Other publication (subscription) charges continue So how can it be funded?
- 5. Funding OA Direct cost during the life of a project Specific additional funding (e.g. Wellcome Trust) Indirect cost of research after the project But indirect costs are not usually funded at 100% Needs an institutional budget line But that is in competition with other things: staff costs, infrastructure to do research, compliance / governance requirements And the relationship with the Library budget …
- 6. Approaches Ignore / wait and see Devolve responsibility Create an institutional budget Establish policies and clear procedures Carry out awareness raising and provide proactive support Establish a repository Who takes the lead? What should it contain? How is the information integrated and used? Is deposition mandated?
- 7. Current Studies Research Councils UK: Study on Open Access to Research Outputs Universities UK: Open Access and the Payment of Publication Fees Surveying UK researchers Gathering information from institutions around the UK Setting out to define best practices for managing funds for OA
- 8. References SHERPA JULIET (funder policies) http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/ SHERPA ROMEO (publisher copyright policies) http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo RIN Briefing Note on Payment of Publication Fees http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/Briefing%20Note%201%20-%20Payment%20of%20Publication%20Fees.pdf
- 9. Open Access Publication: the University Perspective Dr Ian M Carter Director of Research and Enterprise University of Sussex Chair Association of Research Managers and Administrators (UK)
- 10. Open Access – the basics OA is where the full content can be freely and immediately accessed and reused in an unrestricted way Route to OA: Publication in OA or “hybrid” journal (Gold) Deposit in OA repository (Green) OA costs: <$1,000 to >$6,000; typically c$3,000
- 11. Compliance analysis – May 2007 91% (n=255) of articles were published in a journal that would have allowed them to comply with the Trust’s mandate
- 12. Range of costs of OA publication n=220 articles Range: £350 - £3,436 Mean: £1290 Mode: £1,500
- 13. Publishers and prices: examples $3250 iOpenAccess Taylor and Francis $3000 Open Choice Springer $3000 Sage Open Sage £1000-£2500 RSC Open Science Royal Society of Chemistry $278-400 and $16 per page for first 6-10 pages, $93 per page thereafter EXIS Open Choice Royal Society $3250 iOpenAccess Routledge £1700 Engineering Open Choice Professional Engineering Publishing (IME) $1500-$2800 Oxford Open Oxford University Press $3000 Sponsorship Option Elsevier $2700 Cambridge Open Cambridge University Press $2220-$3145 BMJ Unlocked British Medical Journal Publishing $2600 Online Open Blackwell $975-$1300 Free to Read American Physical Society $1500-$2500 Author Select American Institute of Physics $3000 Author Choice American Chemical Society Price OA option Publisher