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SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING & ACADEMIC RESOURCES COALITION SPARC EUROPE

SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING & ACADEMIC RESOURCES COALITION SPARC EUROPE. The Economics of Open Access David Prosser • SPARC Europe Director (david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk). The Economics of Open Access. Can be thought of at a number of levels:

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SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING & ACADEMIC RESOURCES COALITION SPARC EUROPE

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  1. SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING & ACADEMIC RESOURCES COALITIONSPARC EUROPE The Economics of Open Access David Prosser • SPARC Europe Director (david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk)

  2. The Economics of Open Access Can be thought of at a number of levels: • The economics of open access publishing – is it sustainable? • The economics as part of the research process – what does it cost the academic community and how do we pay for open access? • The economic benefits of open access – what are the economic benefits to society as a whole of open access (improved education, technology transfer, etc.)?

  3. The Economics of Open Access Move from ‘cost of access’ to ‘cost of dissemination’. Areas in which library consortia could have a role. • Repositories – pooling resources, software development, standards (e.g., metadata, OAI, version identification) • Journals (Current) – • Memberships to pay article processing charges, e.g. BioMedCentral, PLoS • Negotiate processing charges (perhaps setting caps on what is considered reasonable) • Developing digital publishing tools to allow institutions to publish their own open access titles. • National/local journals – many already receive direct subsidy. Can consortia work to takes these subsidies and turn the titles open access.

  4. The Economics of Open Access -Cont. • Journals (Retrospective) – Digitisation of past runs of titles. Better than paying publishers to access back catalogues? • Non-journal material – Consortia working on open access for theses, monographs, major reference works (models, standards, financial support) • Advocacy – a role for consortia (for ICOLC) in pushing the agenda?

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