Reading and publishing- two sides of the same coin?

Ulf Kronman, Coordinator of OpenAccess.se and scientific publication management

Ilona Johansson, Licensing Coordinator, BIBSAM consortium

The National Library of Sweden

Lund Online 2014-03-20

On the agenda

• OpenAccess.se and the BIBSAM consortium

• Open access coordination at a national level in Sweden

• Coordinating subscription licenses with publishing conditions and costs

• Examples of model transitions and flipping of costs

• Discussion and the way forward

The National Library of Sweden

A tripod of duties

• Preservation of the Swedish cultural heritage– 1661 – print materials – 1979 – sound and moving images– 2013 – electronic publications

• Research library for the humanities

• Coordination of Swedish research libraries and public libraries– BIBSAM consortium– OpenAccess.se

The programme OpenAccess.se

Mission

Promote free access to works by Swedish researchers, teachers and students

Organisation

Expert group for open access and scientific publication management

– Representatives from the Swedish Research Council and Swedish universities

OpenAccess.se – activities and goals

• Meeting Place Open Access

• Web site openaccess.se and blog openaccess.kb.se

• Publication database SwePub– 650 000 Swedish publications

• Support for open access mandates– From funders and universities

• Part of EU project OpenAIRE

• A national policy on open access

Swedish National Open Access Coordination

• New Swedish research bill 2013-2016

• Swedish Research Council to develop national guidelines for "free access to scientific information"– Result to be delivered by end of

2014

• Swedish Research Council contact point with EU regarding open access

• National Library to support the Research Council on open access

Commissions from the Swedish government regarding open access in 2013

The Swedish Research Council shall develop national guidelines for free access to scientific information (Open Access). The Swedish Research Council shall cooperate with the National Library of Sweden and other relevant actors.

The National Library of Sweden shall support the Swedish Research Council in its commission to develop national guidelines for free access to scientific information (Open Access), especially regarding free access to research results.

A new role for OpenAccess.se

• Swedish open access scene has changed from why to how

• Programme OpenAccess.se has reached its major goal– A national policy on open

access

• OpenAccess.se now an expert group to support transition to open access

BIBSAM Consortium

• 73 active members• 28 million € turnover• 43 agreements – about 80 products• 10 biggest universities = represent 75% of

turnover• 5 biggest publishers = represent 75% of

turnover

For more information: http://www.kb.se/bibliotek/centrala-avtal/BIBSAM-Consortium/

Top 5• Elsevier

12 Mۥ Wiley

4 M€

• Springer 2 M€

• Taylor & Francis 1.8 M€• TR Web of Knowledge 1.2 M€

Consortia challenges

• Price increases

• Big Deals • OA mandates

ARL monograph and serial costs 1986-2011

License negotiations & Open Access

• Negotiate rights to green open access– author rights to self archive

• Negotiate discounts on Article Processing Charges (APC’s)

• Negotiate reductions due to open access publishing– No double dipping!

Open Access agreement pilot

• Agreement with OA publisher?

• Tried with BioMed Central/Springer Open

• Steering group turned down due to not enough discounts on APCs

• Worried about sending out ”wrong” signals

OA workflow in the BIBSAM consortium

Journal publishers

BIBSAM consortiumBIBSAM

steering group University libraries

APC discounts

Membership offerings

Decline memberships (so far)

Researchers

University research administration

APC discounts

Membership offerings

Prepare

APC discounts

Subscription fee reductions

Subscription fee reductions

OpenAccess.se and the BIBSAM consortium

BIBSAM Consortium

Support information provision to HEIs and research in Sweden

OpenAccess.se

Support visibility and accessibility to work produced by

researchers, teachers and

students in Sweden

Convergence between licenses for reading and opportunities and costs for publishing open access

Infoin to

HEIs

Info out from HEIs

Two separate streams of publication funding

University

Library

Subscription license

Tradit

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Publisher

Sales department

BIBSAM consortium

Subscriptions for reading

Funder

Researcher

OA publishing

APC

"OA representative" New

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Payments for OA publishing

Article Processing Charges – a fragmented task

• Multinational workshop on APC's in Berlin November 2013

• UK and Germany up in front for managing publishing charges via APC funds

• Conclusions– Abundant administration of "micro-payments"

for APC’s– Libraries’ support is needed for managing

invoices and funds– Important not to redo the subscription mistake

of hiding costs for researchers

One relation university/library <-> publisher?

University Funder

Researcher

Library

Subscription license

OA publishing

APC

Tradit

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form

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ices

Publisher

"Sales & OA department"

BIBSAM consortium

New

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Forerunners – when funding streams meet

• Royal Society of Chemistry's "gold for gold"– Vouchers for hybrid OA publishing

when subscribing to full RSC collection

• SCOAP3

– CERN's Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics

Royal Society of Chemistry ”Gold for Gold”

• Subscribers to RSC Gold (37 journals) get vouchers for APCs in proportion to subscription costs

• BIBSAM’s licensing fee (£189 500) divided by APC (£1,600 ) = 118 articles– 18 articles each as hybrid OA

for Chalmers, KTH, Lund, Stockholm, Uppsala

Royal Society of Chemistry Gold: gold-for-gold credits 2013

Vouchers used/remaining 20132013

Articles Accepted

Gold for gold credits

2013

2013 G4G Vouchers

Used

2013 G4G Vouchers

RemainingChalmers tekniska högskola 39 18 2 16FOI Totalförsvarets Forskningsinstitut 0 1 0 1Karolinska Institutet 4 5 1 4Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan 44 18 10 8Linkopings universitet 5 8 3 5Lulea Tekniska Universitet 3 5 0 5Lunds Universitet 62 18 8 10Stockholms Universitet 23 18 11 7Umea Universitet 7 9 2 7Uppsala Universitet 32 18 2 16Grand Total 219 118 39 79

SCOAP3 – flipping a whole field to OA

• Peer review service for articles in high-energy physics (HEP) based on CERN experiments as from 2014– 7 journals from 4 publishers– 4400 articles per year– Budget 5 M€ / year

• Costs for subscriptions converted to funding for OA publishing– BIBSAM calculates input to SCOAP3 and subscription

reductions

• Five Swedish universities SCOAP3 partners– Chalmers, Lund, KTH, Stockholm, Uppsala– 0.8% of HEP publications -> 44 000 € / year – Subscription reductions 41 000 € / year

Conclusion: Open Access – the way forward

• Logical development…– From print to electronic– From single subscriptions to big deals– From toll access to open access…

• Strategic – Licensing and demands for OA

publishing should turn into one common relation between universities and publishers

• Administrative– Libraries should become the unit that

handles this relation

Thanks for

your attention!

Questions?

Web: openaccess.se

Blog: openaccess.kb.se

E-mail: ulf.kronman [at] kb.se, ilona.johansson [at] kb.se

Twitter: @UlfKronman

The future:

Freeing the article from the

fetters of the journal?

From product to service – from reader to author

• Subscription based journals– Selling a product = toll access articles– Business idea based on a selection to readers

• Open access journals– Selling a service = certification (peer review)– Business idea based on a service to authors

• The paper-based model mixes services to readers and authors

• The internet-based model can separate the services

Free the article from the fetters of the journal

• Service to the author disconnected

from service to the reader

• Mega-journals – pure peer review

services for publishing scientists– PLoS ONE– PeerJ– SAGE Open – Scientific Reports, Science Advances, Royal

Society Open Science

OA mega-journals as a second-tier service

Nature ScienceSubscription-basedselection services for readers

Manuscripts Peer review

Of sellable value to readers?

Nature Reports Science AdvancesOpen AccessPeer review services

Pay publishing feeReject

A future two-tier system of services?

Nature Reports Science Advances

OA mega-journalspeer review services

Manuscripts Peer review

Pay publishing fee

Reject

PLoS ONE

"Nature Digests" "Science Selection"

Subscription-basedalert/digest services for readers

Of interest to readers?

Discussion!

Web: openaccess.se

Blog: openaccess.kb.se

E-mail: ulf.kronman [at] kb.se

Twitter: @UlfKronman