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Couperin Open Access Conference: Généraliser l’accès ouvert aux résultats de la recherche Paris, 24/25 January 2013. Enjeux de l’Open Access : le green OA, coûts et bénéfices. Alma Swan Director of Advocacy, SPARC Europe Convenor , Enabling Open Scholarship
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Couperin Open Access Conference: Généraliserl’accèsouvertaux résultats de la recherche Paris, 24/25 January 2013 Enjeux de l’Open Access : le green OA, coûtset bénéfices Alma Swan Director of Advocacy, SPARC Europe Convenor, Enabling Open Scholarship Director, Key Perspectives Ltd Director, Infrastructure Services for Open Access
Les coûts et bénéfices • Benefits: • Faster, more efficient, more effective research • Outreach to professional and practitioner communities • Outreach to the education community • Outreach to the business community • A better Knowledge Society • €€€ ? • Costs: • Publisher adaptation • Author adaptation • €€€ ?
Three Open Access scenarios • Self-archiving in repositories (‘Green’ Open Access) • (1) In parallel with subscription journals • (2) Instead of subscription journals, via repositories with overlay services • (3) Open Access journals (‘Gold’ Open Access publishing)
Another dimension Worldwide versus unilateral OA Worldwide = when all institutions (or nations) convert to OA Unilateral = when only the test institution (or nation) converts to OA and the rest of the world continues with the current situation
National pictures (worldwide OA) (Houghton et al, 2009, 2010)
Benefit-cost ratios (UK) (worldwide OA) (CEPA, 2011)
Three Open Access scenarios • Self-archiving in repositories (‘Green’ Open Access) • (1) In parallel with subscription journals • (2) Instead of subscription journals, via repositories with overlay services • (3) Open Access journals (‘Gold’ Open Access publishing)
Savings from Green OA (with subscriptions) GBP per annum
‘University UK’: Annual savings from OA GBP per annum
More realistic assumptions *(Solomon & Bjork, 2011) • Before: • Universities would pay for all articles published by authors in their institution • Used average APC value of 1500 GBP • New: set of new assumptions: • The corresponding author is responsible for article processing payments • Where work is funded by external funders, the funder will pay article processing charges • So, a university only pays for unfunded articles where the main author is in that institution • Used ‘real’ average APC of 571 GBP* ... • Or ‘real’ disciplinary values*
Savings from worldwide Gold OA N.B. Modelled disciplinary mix with discipline-specific average APCs
Savings from Gold OA (different APCs) APC = ‘real’ disciplinary values APC = 1500 GBP GBP per annum
Savings from worldwide Green OA GBP per annum
Unilateral Green OA incurs costs GBP per annum
Modelling OA at institutional level • Cheaper, whatever model (Green or Gold) for all nations studied • Transitioning: through Green OA is the cheapest route: • Amount of Green OA grows to 90-100% of all articles • Authors’ final versions are acceptable as a substitute • Libraries consider it safe to cancel subscriptions • Publishers convert to Gold OA (service provision rather than product sales) • Cash available in institutions (savings from subscriptions) to pay for Gold publishing services
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