Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice

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“Who pays for Open Access?” is a key question faced by publishers, authors, and libraries as awareness and interest in free, immediate, online access to scholarly research increases. SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open-access publishers in a timely new guide, “Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice,” by Raym Crow.

“Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice” examines the use of supply-side revenue streams (such as article processing fees, advertising) and demand-side models (including versioning, use-triggered fees). The guide provides an overview of income models currently in use to support open-access journals, including a description of each model along with examples of journals currently employing it.

(source: Raym Crow, SPARC, oct. 09)

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The York Digital Journals Project: Strategies for Institutional Open Journal Systems Implementations

"Suggestions for startup including policy considerations and service models are discussed. Ideas for advertising and networking are explored as well as the question of project sustainability."

(source: College & Research Libraries / via DigitalKoans, 18/09/09)

Une idée à suivre, celle de créer et gérer "nos" propres revues scientifiques. Un nouveau paradigme, certes, pour beaucoup d'auteurs et de chercheurs, mais probablement un des seuls moyens de contourner les exigences financières des éditeurs...

Universal Open Access Mandates By Universities Moot The Problem of Uncontrolled Journal Price Inflation Caused By Inelastic Demand

"Stuart Shieber, architect of Harvard's OA Mandate, asks: "Do we continue the status quo, which involves only supporting a business model known to be subject to uncontrolled inflationary spirals, or do we experiment with new mechanisms that have the potential to be economically sound and far more open to boot?"
"The answer is simple: The only reason the uncontrolled inflation of journal subscription costs is a problem at all (and also the reason the upward spiral continues uncontrolled) is the world's universities' inelastic demand and need for access to one another's peer-reviewed journal articles.""

(source: Open Access Archivangelism, 01/09/09)

Les vidéos de la Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2009 (Lund, Suède, sept. 09) sont en ligne.

Contenu:

How Common is Open Access?
The Economics of Open Access Scholarly Publishing
Open Access Publishing Strategies, Options and Issues for Scholar Publishers
The Directory of Open Access Journals - The Development of the Collection, Current Projects, and Plans for the Future
The Open Source Publishing Platform

(via liste lib-license, 04/10/09)

Open access policies must require rather than just request deposit

"It makes a big difference whether a university's (or research funder's) Open Access policy is mandatory (i.e. a requirement) or just invitational (a request). Merely requesting deposit (as did the first version of the NIH OA policy) fails to generate deposits, whereas requiring deposit succeeds (as did the revised NIH policy, once it was upgraded to make deposit mandatory). Research grant recipients and their institutions are conscientious about complying with their funders' official grant fulfillment procedures, to maximize their chances of future funding. University faculty are likewise conscientious about complying with their institutions' official performance review procedures (and so depositing articles in the institutional repository should be designated as the official procedure for submitting them for performance review)."

(source: Open Access Archivangelism, 01/09/09)

"The Open Access Movement: Integrating Universities' ETD-Deposit and Research-Deposit Mandates, Repositories and Metrics"

Une video de Stevan Harnad

(présentation donnée à ETD2009 "Bridging the Knowledge Divide")

Voir aussi cette autre intervention de S. H.: "Grasping What is Already Within Immediate Reach: Universal Open Access Mandates"

• Video Part I

• Video Part II

Fund Gold OA Only AFTER Mandating Green OA, Not INSTEAD

"Open Access (OA) is about access, not about journal economics. The journal affordability problem is only relevant (to OA) inasmuch as it reduces access; and Gold OA publishing is only relevant (to OA) inasmuch as it increases access -- which for a given university, is not much (today): Authors must remain free to publish in their journal of choice. Most refereed journals are not Gold OA journals today. Nor could universities afford to pay Gold OA fees for the publication of all or most of their authors' research output today, because universities are already paying for publication via their subscription fees today."

(source: Open Access Archivangelism, 17/09/09)

Qu'ont en commun les 5 institutions (prestigieuses) suivantes: Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley?

Elles vont financer des revues en libre accès:

"The institutions [...] signed a compact agreeing to the “timely establishment” of mechanisms for providing financial support for free open-access journals."

(source: The Chronicle of Higher Education/The Wired Campus, 14/09/09)

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Màj 18/09/09: voir le site consacré à cette initiative - intitulée Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE)

Au sommaire du dernier n° de D-Lib Magazine (sept.-oct. 09, vol. 15, n° 9-10):

Articles:

• Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR)

DataStaR is a data staging repository in development at Cornell University. A data staging repository offers unique opportunities to recruit data into domain and institutional data repositories, but as a transitory curation environment, it demands careful consideration of the role of such a repository in the full life cycle of research data. We describe our experience applying the Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification Criteria and Checklist as a framework for specifying system, policy, and documentation requirements to ensure that DataStaR is an effective partner in the entire chain of preservation activities.

• Subject-based Information Retrieval within Digital Libraries Employing LCSHs

In this article, an effort is made to take advantage of the inherent semantic wealth existing within Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSHs) in order to provide more efficient subject-based information retrieval in digital libraries. To formally express such wealth, an ontology schema is presented that is capable of modeling the semantics of LCSHs into adequate ontologies. Finally, in order to show the way towards exploiting such ontologies in favor of the development of more effective subject-based information retrieval in digital libraries, a prototype system is presented. The system contains an ontology modeling the LCSHs that are employed within a digital library of theses and dissertations. Serving as a proof of concept, the prototype describes a system capable of making the expressiveness of the underlying ontology readily available to end users while at the same time retaining simplicity and ease-of-use.

• Analysing Selection for Digitisation: Current Practices and Common Incentives

Over the past few decades, the explosion of digital and digitised documents and the addition of a purely digital facet to the documentary lifecycle have been forcing memory institutions from all sectors to address the same questions that the growth in analogue production necessitated in the early 20th century: Can/should all documents that pass the initial test of appraisal also remain stored indefinitely? What are the requirements for long-term preservation? At what point (if ever) do digital collections become too large to handle? And how can we decide what gets deleted? Individual institutions and collaborative research efforts alike have adopted a wide range of practices in their attempt to tackle these questions. We would expect the current phase of trial-and-error to move slowly towards a set of somewhat more uniformly adopted governing concepts and practices.

• OA Network: An Integrative Open Access Infrastructure for Germany

This article describes concepts, development, and implementation of an overall Open Access infrastructure for Germany. Currently, the joint project Open Access Network is facilitating comprehensive and value-added services built on top of distributed Institutional Repositories. Using the OAI-PMH as the harvesting mechanism, Open Access (OA) Network furnishes an open and extensible architecture to form the technological base for manifold enhanced services. It not only provides a personalized end user platform but also serves as an aggregator node for passing data to other service providers (e.g., DRIVER). Moreover, OA Network provides a testbed for the development of software to implement value-added services. OA Network is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

• Curriculum for Digital Libraries: An Analytical Study of Indian LIS Curricula

The information professionals of today must discharge their duties in a hybrid environment, one that deals with traditional print documents but digital documents as well. To make digital information management a reality, Library and Information Science (LIS) education programmes in India now include digital library courses in their syllabi. An attempt has been made in this article to analyze the digital library course content of LIS Master Degree programmes of selected University Departments/Institutions in India. The results are not encouraging. There is a need to devise innovative LIS programme content on digital libraries in the form of core and advanced elective courses.

Comptes rendus de conférence:

• Report on OAI 6: CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Geneva 17-19 June 2009

• Purple Cows and Fringy Propositions: The Edinburgh Repository Fringe Festival 200

La conférence "Open Access Scholarly Publishing", qui se déroulera en Suède du 14 au 16 septembre, sera visible en webcast à l'adresse suivante, à partir du lundi 14, 12h30:

http://www.river-valley.tv/