Transitioning to Open Access: An Evaluation of the UK Springer Compact Agreement Pilot 2016–2018

Marques, Mafalda; Stone, Graham

doi:10.5860/crl.81.6.913

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“…In recent years, national consortia in Europe have negotiated publishing agreements covering hybrid OA fees for affiliated authors (Borrego et al, 2020). While these have improved invoicing workflows, internal assessments of hybrid OA uptake and invoicing remain challenging because transparent and comparative data have largely remained absent (Marques & Stone, 2020). Such publicly available information might be scarce because publishers and institutions lack or withhold such data, or due to confidentiality clauses (Marques & Stone, 2020;Monaghan et al, 2020).…”

Section: Financial Studiesmentioning

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Toward transparency of hybrid open access through publisher‐provided metadata: An article‐level study of Elsevier

Jahn

Matthias

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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 on and transparency of these flows are still lacking. The opacity 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 to 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 to improve the transparency in scholarly publishing.

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Section: Financial Studiesmentioning

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Toward transparency of hybrid open access through publisher‐provided metadata: An article‐level study of Elsevier

Jahn

Matthias

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2021

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“…But neither those small contracts nor the consortial agreements have the size of the German DEAL in terms of the number of participating institutions. There already exist early descriptive evaluations of pilot agreements between universities in the UK (Marques & Stone, 2020) and Sweden (Olsson et al, 2020) in the literature.…”

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The Impact of the German 'DEAL' on Competition in the Academic Publishing Market

Haucap¹,

Moshgbar²,

Schmal³

2021

SSRN Journal

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The German DEAL agreements between German universities and research institutions on the one side and Springer Nature and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of all publications in chemistry from 2016 to 2020 and apply a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the impact on eligible scientists' choice of publication outlet. We find that even in the short period following the conclusion of these DEAL agreements, publication patterns in the field of chemistry have changed, as eligible researchers have increased their publications in Wiley and Springer Nature journals at the cost of other journals. From that two related competition concerns emerge: First, academic libraries may be, at least in the long run, left with fewer funds and incentives to subscribe to non-DEAL journals published by smaller publishers or to fund open access publications in these journals. Secondly, eligible authors may prefer to publish in journals included in the DEAL agreements, thereby giving DEAL journals a competitive advantage over non-DEAL journals in attracting good papers. Given the two-sided market nature of the academic journal market, these effects may both further spur the concentration process in this market.

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“…In recent years, national consortia in Europe negotiated publishing agreements covering hybrid OA fees for affiliated authors (Borrego et al, 2020). While these improved invoicing workflows, internal assessments of hybrid OA uptake and invoicing remain challenging because transparent and comparative data have largely remained absent (Marques & Stone 2020). Such publicly available information might be scarce because publishers lack or withhold such data, or due to confidentiality clauses (Marques & Stone 2020;Marques et al, 2019;Monaghan et al, 2020).…”

Section: Financial Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Jahn,

Matthias,

Laakso

2021

Preprint

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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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Transitioning to Open Access: An Evaluation of the UK Springer Compact Agreement Pilot 2016–2018

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Toward transparency of hybrid open access through publisher‐provided metadata: An article‐level study of Elsevier

Toward transparency of hybrid open access through publisher‐provided metadata: An article‐level study of Elsevier

The Impact of the German 'DEAL' on Competition in the Academic Publishing Market

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

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