Category: Publishing

The Potential of Global Identifiers to Support More Efficient Workflows for All Kinds of OA

Jisc has released The Potential of Global Identifiers to Support More Efficient Workflows for All Kinds of OA.

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This document describes the potential of Persistent Identifier (PID) registries, in particularly for researchers and organisations, and how, if properly used, they can ease the administrative burden of any open access (OA) policy and improve workflows.

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"Do Authors Comply When Funders Enforce Open Access to Research?"

Vincent Larivière and Cassidy R. Sugimoto have published "Do Authors Comply When Funders Enforce Open Access to Research?" in Nature.

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Of the more than 1.3 million papers we identified as subject to the selected funders' open-access mandates, we found that some two-thirds were indeed freely available to read.

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"Developing a Business Plan for a Library Publishing Program"

Kate McCready and Emma Molls have published "Developing a Business Plan for a Library Publishing Program" in Publications.

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Over the last twenty years, library publishing has emerged in higher education as a new class of publisher. Conceived as a response to commercial publishing practices that have strained library budgets and prevented scholars from openly licensing and sharing their works, library publishing is both a local service program and a broader movement to disrupt the current scholarly publishing arena. It is growing both in numbers of publishers and numbers of works produced. The commercial publishing framework which determines the viability of monetizing a product is not necessarily applicable for library publishers who exist as a common good to address the needs of their academic communities. Like any business venture, however, library publishers must develop a clear service model and business plan in order to create shared expectations for funding streams, quality markers, as well as technical and staff capacity. As the field is maturing from experimental projects to full programs, library publishers are formalizing their offerings and limitations. The anatomy of a library publishing business plan is presented and includes the principles of the program, scope of services, and staffing requirements. Other aspects include production policies, financial structures, and measures of success.

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Jisc Open Access Briefing Paper: Considering the Implications of the Finch Report

Jisc has released Considering the Implications of the Finch Report.

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Over six years on and in light of the 2017 monitoring report from the Universities UK Open Access Coordination Group [3] this discussion paper examines the impact and consequences of the UK approach, before suggesting possible interventions that might be considered further to evaluate their contribution to enhancing the transition to open access in the UK for all stakeholders.

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"Altruism or Self-Interest? Exploring the Motivations of Open Access Authors"

College & Research Libraries has released an e-print of "Altruism or Self-Interest? Exploring the Motivations of Open Access Authors" by Robert Heaton, Dylan Burns, and Becky Thoms.

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More than 250 authors at Utah State University published an Open Access (OA) article in 2016. Analysis of survey results and publication data from Scopus suggests that the following factors led authors to choose OA venues: ability to pay publishing charges, disciplinary colleagues’ positive attitudes toward OA, and personal feelings such as altruism and desire to reach a wide audience. Tenure status was not an apparent factor.

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"Format Shift: Information Behavior and User Experience in the Academic E-book Environment"

Daniel G. Tracy has published "Format Shift: Information Behavior and User Experience in the Academic E-book Environment" in Reference & User Services Quarterly.

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This article seeks to understand information behavior in the context of the academic e-book user experience, shaped by a disparate set of vendor platforms licensed by libraries. These platforms vary in design and affordances, yet studies of e-book use in an academic context often treat e-books as a unified phenomenon in opposition to print books. Based on participant diaries tracking e-book information behavior and follow-up interviews and focus groups on troubleshooting and format shifting behaviors, this study seeks to provide a deep qualitative look at decisions that academic users make about formats when encountering e-books.

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"OpenAPC: A Contribution to a Transparent and Reproducible Monitoring of Fee-Based Open Access Publishing Across Institutions and Nations"

Dirk Pieper and Christoph Broschinski have published "OpenAPC: A Contribution to a Transparent and Reproducible Monitoring of Fee-Based Open Access Publishing Across Institutions and Nations" in Insights.

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The OpenAPC initiative releases data sets on fees paid for open access (OA) journal articles by universities, funders and research institutions under an open database licence. OpenAPC is part of the INTACT project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation and located at Bielefeld University Library. This article provides insight into OpenAPC's technical and organizational background and shows how transparent and reproducible reporting on fee-based open access can be conducted across institutions and publishers to draw conclusions on the state of the OA transformation process. As part of the INTACT subproject, ESAC, the article also shows how OpenAPC workflows can be used to analyse offsetting deals, using the example of Springer Compact agreements.

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"’It Is for Publishers to Provide Plan S-compliant Routes to Publication in Their Journals.’: An Interview with Robert-Jan Smits, with Preface"

Richard Poynder has published "'It Is for Publishers to Provide Plan S-compliant Routes to Publication in Their Journals.': An Interview with Robert-Jan Smits, with Preface" in Open and Shut?.

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That publishers do not like Plan S is, of course, no surprise. That was doubtless what the architects of the initiative anticipated. What they perhaps did not anticipate was that they would face pushback from researchers. Yet just a week after the announcement nine researchers published a critical article entitled, A Response to Plan-S from Academic Researchers: Unethical, Too Risky! This appears to have shocked the Plan S architects as thoroughly as their plan must have shocked publishers.

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