funding body requirements uksg webinar 26 th march 2014 robert kiley wellcome trust...
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Funding body requirements
UKSG Webinar26th March 2014
Robert KileyWellcome Trust
[email protected]@robertkiley
Agenda
1. Discuss the Wellcome OA policy, including compliance, costs and sanctions
2. Look at key challenges relating to OA
Wellcome OA policy• “any research papers …
accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, and are supported in whole or in part by Wellcome Trust funding, to be made available through PubMed Central & Europe PMC as soon as possible and in any event within six months of final publication”
Wellcome Images, CC-BY, L0026422
OA policy – why?
• To maximise the impact of our research spend
• Wellcome believes that the full research and economic benefit of published content will only be realised when there are no restrictions on access to, and reuse of, this information
Wellcome Images, CC-BY, L0038828
Compliance with the Trust’s policy
Apr-2007
Jul-2
007
Oct-2007
Jan-2
008
Apr-2008
Jul-2
008
Oct-2008
Jan-2
009
Apr-2009
Jul-2
009
Oct-2009
Jan-2
010
Apr-2010
Jul-2
010
Oct-2010
Jan-2
011
Apr-2011
Jul-2
011
Oct-2011
Jan-2
012
Apr-2012
Jul-2
012
Oct-2012
Jan-2
013
Apr-2013
Jul-2
013
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
% of papers in PMC
% of papers in PMC
Linear (% of papers in PMC)
Month
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Gold or green?• Trust supports “green” and
“gold” OA, though with a strong preference for gold• Gold – version of record, zero
embargo, re-use rights• Green – embargoes, author
manuscript version limited re-use rights, and reliance upon subscription model
• …and wasn’t the point of OA that we want access now…with licences that facilitate re-use?
Wellcome Images, CC-BY, L0040558
Enforcing compliance
• Specific sanctions for non-compliance:- withholding final payment on grants,
until assurance papers listed on final reports are compliant
- discounting non-compliant Trust-funded papers as part of a researcher’s track record
- requiring previous Trust-funded papers to be compliant before any funding renewals or new grants awards are activated
• Sanctions have been used
The CC-BY requirement
• OA policy now specifies that research articles, for which an OA fee is paid, must be licenced using CC-BYTrust believes that full research and economic benefit of
published content will only be realised when there are no restrictions on access to, and reuse of, this information
• Requirement introduced from April 2013• All major publishers now offer CC-BY
….though some publishers experiencing some problems in fully implementing this….
Supporting open access• Providing dedicated funding to
meet OA costs including books and monographs
• Developing Europe PubMed Central repository with 24 partner funders
• Funding eLife – a top tier, open access journal
• Advocacy: working with researchers, institutions, and publishers to make OA easier
Funding open access (1)• View dissemination costs as an
integral cost of funding research• Estimate that cost of paying for all
Trust papers via the gold route would be 1% to 1.5% of total research spend
• Average APC £1826 (based on 2012-13 data)
• 5000 papers a year (5000 x 1826) = £9.13m
• Research spend (2012) £726m – 1.35%
• but is it a functional market ? Wellcome Images, CC-BY, L0030379
Funding open access (2)
0-1000 1001-1500 1501-2000 2001-2500 2501-3000 3001-3500 3501-4000 4001-5000 5001-60000
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
350401
491
685
9138 61
24 2
Range of APCs paid
Num
ber o
f arti
cles
Range of APCs paid (2012-13)*
2012-13 2011-12 2010-11
No. articles 2144 1690 1301
Mean OA paid £1826 £1872 £1808
Median OA paid £1837 £1889 £1875
OA fees paid through block grants, by Wellcome grantees
*Data available at: http://goo.gl/uHMJho
OA - key challenges• Developing infrastructures –
• linking subject and institutional repositories; systems for paying APC’s; determining publisher OA policies
• Addressing concerns around licences, especially for humanities and social sciences scholars
• And cost….
Wellcome Images, CC-BY, L0026444
Meeting the costs of OA• Growing concern that hybrid
publishers are being paid twice (subscriptions and APC’s)
• Concern exacerbated by recent study which showed that average APC in a hybrid journal was almost twice that for a born-digital, full open access journal ($2,727 compared to $1,418)
Encouraging a functional OA market: policy options1. Funding APCs for full OA journals, and only funding APCs
for hybrids that offset APC revenues by reducing subscription charges at a local (institutional) level
2. Setting multi-tier price caps for the maximum they will contribute towards an APC for particular journals, based on the quality of services they provide
3. Covering only a fixed percentage of the APC once the APC exceeds a threshold – with authors (or institutions) covering the shortfall
• Trust looking to work with funders to explore these options
