Open Access: that other thing you should be spending

money on

Thinking OCUL-Y: A Licensing and Collections Symposium

Ian Gibson Collections LibrarianBrock University

Agenda

• What we are already doing• What we could be doing (and some of us are):• Author’s funds• Memberships/Institutional Support• Infrastructure• Support for OA Monographs

Congratulations!

• You belong to an organization that supports Open Access!

Open Access Author’s Funds

• Where is this money coming from? What isn’t going to be purchased instead?

• Campus partnerships?

• What restrictions will be placed on funding?

• Will funding be given for hybrid journals?• Will funding be given for authors who have funding from other sources?• What criteria will be used to assess which publishers will be allowed

• Brock’s criteria can be found at https://www.brocku.ca/webfm_send/27197

Memberships/Institutional Support

• 4 Delicious flavours:

• All you can eat

• Fixed discount

• Deposit account

• Direct billing

All you can eatMemberships / Institutional Support (1)

• One annual fee to cover all APCs incurred by your faculty

• Price based on “research output level of the institute and its historical publishing pattern in Hindawi journals”

Fixed DiscountMemberships / Institutional Support (2)

• How it works:• The library pays an annual fee based on numbers of Grad

students, Faculty, and/or Researchers (Post-Docs & others)• Authors affiliated get discounted APCs

• Who offers it?

Deposit AccountMemberships / Institutional Support (3)

• How it works:• The library pays a fee based on the number of articles /

memberships, n, it wishes to fund• The first n articles are published without charge to their

authors• Who offers it?

Direct BillingMemberships / Institutional Support (4)

• How it works:• The publisher sends invoices for all the APCs generated to the

library• Authors never have to see a bill

• Who offers it?

Infrastructure

• The Library pays a fee for:• Software Development• Hosting costs• People to maintain the platform

• Examples:

*Coming soon

Support for OA Monographs

• 4 models:• Unglue.it/Knowledge Unlatched• APC• Infrasturcture• Freemium

That’s it.

Questions?

Time for someone else

Contact me:

Ian GibsonCollections LibrarianJames A. Gibson Library, Brock UniversityEmail: igibson@brocku.caTwitter: @IanGibson11