Paying For Open Access: The Author'S Perspective

Graaf, Maurits van der

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“…Another possibility is that German hybrid OA fees were paid from budgets not reported to the Open APC initiative, a crowd-sourcing effort (Pieper & Broschinski, 2018) from where the authors acquired data. Among these unreported funds are research grants and research unit budgets, which author surveys identified as APC funding sources (Graaf, 2017;Monaghan et al, 2020). As such, Jahn and Tullney's (2016) findings could reflect the complexities and potential limitations of institutional OA spending data that Pinfield et al (2016) and Monaghan et al (2020) attributed to incomplete or missing records.…”

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Transparency to hybrid open access through publisher-provided metadata: An article-level study of Elsevier

Jahn,

Matthias,

Laakso

2021

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With the growth of open access (OA), the financial flows in scholarly journal publishing have become increasingly complex, but comprehensive data and transparency into these flows are still lacking. The opaqueness is especially concerning for hybrid OA, where subscription-based journals publish individual articles as OA if an optional fee is paid.This study addresses the lack of transparency by leveraging Elsevier article metadata and provides the first publisher-level study of hybrid OA uptake and invoicing. Our results show that Elsevier's hybrid OA uptake has grown steadily but slowly from 2015-2019, doubling the number of hybrid OA articles published per year and increasing the share of OA articles in Elsevier's hybrid journals from 2.6% to 3.7% of all articles.Further, we find that most hybrid OA articles were invoiced directly to authors, followed by articles invoiced through agreements with research funders, institutions, or consortia, with only a few funding bodies driving hybrid OA uptake. As such, our findings point to the role of publishing agreements and OA policies in hybrid OA publishing. Our results further demonstrate the value of publisher-provided metadata improve the transparency in scholarly publishing by linking invoicing data to bibliometrics. HYBRID OA ELSEVIER 3 Transparency to hybrid open access through publisher-provided metadata: An article-level study of Elsevier

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Transparency to hybrid open access through publisher-provided metadata: An article-level study of Elsevier

Jahn,

Matthias,

Laakso

2021

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Open access uptake in Germany 2010–2018: adoption in a diverse research landscape

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This study investigates the development of open access (OA) to journal articles from authors affiliated with German universities and non-university research institutions in the period 2010–2018. Beyond determining the overall share of openly available articles, a systematic classification of distinct categories of OA publishing allowed us to identify different patterns of adoption of OA. Taking into account the particularities of the German research landscape, variations in terms of productivity, OA uptake and approaches to OA are examined at the meso-level and possible explanations are discussed. The development of the OA uptake is analysed for the different research sectors in Germany (universities, non-university research institutes of the Helmholtz Association, Fraunhofer Society, Max Planck Society, Leibniz Association, and government research agencies). Combining several data sources (incl. Web of Science, Unpaywall, an authority file of standardised German affiliation information, the ISSN-Gold-OA 3.0 list, and OpenDOAR), the study confirms the growth of the OA share mirroring the international trend reported in related studies. We found that 45% of all considered articles during the observed period were openly available at the time of analysis. Our findings show that subject-specific repositories are the most prevalent type of OA. However, the percentages for publication in fully OA journals and OA via institutional repositories show similarly steep increases. Enabling data-driven decision-making regarding the implementation of OA in Germany at the institutional level, the results of this study furthermore can serve as a baseline to assess the impact recent transformative agreements with major publishers will likely have on scholarly communication.

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We’re Still Failing to Deliver Open Access and Solve the Serials Crisis: To Succeed We Need a Digital Transformation of Scholarly Communication Using Internet-Era Principles

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Paying For Open Access: The Author'S Perspective

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Transparency to hybrid open access through publisher-provided metadata: An article-level study of Elsevier

Transparency to hybrid open access through publisher-provided metadata: An article-level study of Elsevier

Open access uptake in Germany 2010–2018: adoption in a diverse research landscape

We’re Still Failing to Deliver Open Access and Solve the Serials Crisis: To Succeed We Need a Digital Transformation of Scholarly Communication Using Internet-Era Principles

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