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1. Recent developments in the Open Access

debate (up to October 12th 2015)

2. OA hot topics: money and more

3. Status of OA at VU University Amsterdam

4. What can you do?


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4. What can you do?


NOVEMBER 15TH 2013

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State Secretary for Education Sander Dekker argues in a letter to Parliament for the Golden Road to Open Access

"The principle behind Open Access involves making scientific publications, journals and books freely accessible worldwide. I personally feel that the results of publicly and publicly/ privately funded research should always be freely available ... My preference is for the Golden Road.”


JULI 15th 2014


15-07-2014: Letter from VSNU chairman Karl Dittrich to all members of the academic community arguing in favour of OA

“Dear members of the Dutch academic community,... Open access is a movement that aims to make the results of scientific research ... freely accessible online ... Dutch universities are strongly in favour of this development .... We are counting on your support.”


HIGHLIGHTS LAST 12 MONTHS (1)

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November 4th 2014 – Big deal negotiations with Elsevier show no sign of progress. November 20th 2014 – VSNU and Springer reach an agreement on a big deal including Open Access. Summer 2015 – Still no progress in negotiations with ElsevierJuly 1st 2015 – New Copyright Law (after ‘amendement Taverne’).




Augustus/September 2015 – Big deal agreements with Wiley and Sage including Open Access. Still no progress with Elsevier.September 2015 – League of European Research Universities (LERU) supports Dutch OA policy. October 10th 2015: “De Gruyter presents new open access pricing model to prevent “double dipping”October 12th 2015: LERU statement and petition: “Christmas is over. Research funding should go to research, not to publishers!” Signal towards the European Commission and the Dutch EU Presidency




Publisher Status (September, 2015. Bron: VSNU)

Elsevier Negotiations are being continued, but parties are still far apart. Existing contract has been extended for 1 year, but is cancelled by December 31, 2015.

Springer An agreement has been reached: from January 1, 2015 onwards NL researchers can publish Open Access in around 1500 Springer journals.

Wiley Wiley and the universities worked out an Open Access programme starting from 1 September 2015, as preparation for a more extensive open access deal in 2016.

Sage An agreement has been reached. A total of 20% yearly scholar articles can be published Gold Open Access.

Oxford University Press

Existing contract with OUP has been extended for 1 year to further discuss Open Access.

Other Currently negotiations will start with a few other publishers (a.o. ACS, Kluwer and Taylor & Francis).

Jaap Winter (VU) Gerard Meijer (Nijmegen) en Koen Becking (Tilburg) are the negotiation team on behalf of the VSNU.


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OPEN ACCESS – AND MONEY



MODELS: GOLD AND GREEN


Golden Road: articles are published directly by the publisher in Open Access, either in full OA Journals or in hybrid journals that contain both freely accessible articles and content that is only accessible to subscribers – the author, his/her employer or funding agency pays the Author Processing Charge (APC).

Green Road: after peer review but before final layout, articles are archived by or on behalf of the author in an open repository (at the author’s institution, such as VUDare or otherwise, e.g. by theme); an embargo period of 3 to 24 months often applies – self-archiving is ‘free of charge’


FIFTY SHADES OF OPEN ACCESS – JEROEN BOSMAN (UU)


APC’s: researcher, university or funding ageancy pays.

J. of Machine Learning

‘Double dipping’


APC RATES – JEROEN BOSMAN (UU)


Estimated average APC per article: € 1.500


WHO PAYS FOR OPEN ACCESS

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Estemated average article processing costs (APC) € 1.500 In 2014 VU and VUmc published 702 articles in full OA journals (15.3% of total)Costs increase, research universities with high output pay more in favor of ‘consumers’. Risk: expensive APC’s replace expensive subscription fees (profit margin Elsevier: almost 40%)

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OTHER OA BUSINESS MODELS


PeerJ

“... PeerJ operates a 'Lifetime publishing plan' model…, which gives them lifetime rights to publish with

us (for free).The 3 plans are: Basic (which allows for publishing 1x per year, for life);

Enhanced (which allows for publishing 2x per year, for life); and Unlimited (… an unlimited number

of articles per year, for life)…



OTHER OA BUSINESS MODELS


ARXIV

arXiv is a repository of e-prints of scientific papers in the fields of f.e. mathematics, physics, astronomy

and computer science. In many fields of mathematics and physics almost all scientific papers are self-archived

on arXiv. In December 2014 there where a million articles published.



OPEN ACCESS AND COPYRIGHT


http://creativecommons.org/choose/

Arjan Schalken


OPEN ACCESS AND QUALITY


Abbreviated Journal Title Impact FactoreLife 8,519Journal of Medical Internet Research 4,669PLoS One 3,534Implementation Science 3,470BMC Bioinformatics 2,672BMC Public Health 2,321BMC Medical Research Methodology 2,168BMJ Open 2,063BMC Health Services Research 1,659BMC Medical Ethics 1,600BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 1,496BMC Medical Education 1,409Scientific World Journal 1,219


OPEN ACCESS AND ACCESSABILITY


15-07-2014: Letter from VSNU chairman Karl Dittrich to all members of the academic community arguing in favour of OA

“Dear members of the Dutch academic community,... Open access is a movement that aims to make the results of scientific research ... freely accessible online ... Dutch universities are strongly in favour of this development .... We are counting on your support.”


FUNDING AGENCIES DEMAND OPEN ACCESS



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VU UNIVERSITY AMBITION: IP 2010-2015


The goal is to achieve a 40 percent Open Access publication rate by 2015, rising to

90 percent by 2025 (this was about 5 percent in 2010)


VU UNIVERSITY STILL AMBITIOUS: IP 2015-2020


Verder is de VU overtuigd voorstander van het maximaal toegankelijk maken van onderzoeksoutput door te publiceren in open access, zeker wanneer het gaat om onderzoek dat uit publieke middelen is gefinancierd.

= green route

Furthermore, VU University Amsterdam is a fervent advocate of making research output accessible through Open Access publishing, especially when it comes to research financed with public funds.

d. Use university’s own repository to boost the percentage of articles published in Open Access (top three Dutch universities) that are made publicly available.


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4. What can you do?


UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: OPEN ACCESS INFORMATION POINT


[email protected] - library information specialists can advise on:

Appropriate OA publishing opportunities, compliance with funding bodies; information on publishers’ copyright policies, embargo requirements

Grants for OA publishing (APC voucher pilot with various publishers)

BMC (15%) – BMJ (25%) – BRILL (30 x 500.00 discount)-

RSC GOLD (10 x free)+ Springer (1500 journals Open Choice)

Advice on transfer / securing copyrights, assistance in choosing the right Creative Commons licence

Launching one’s own OA journal, conference proceedings, etc.

Drafting an (open) data management plan for grant application

Advice on negotiations with publishers and process design APC agreements with Elsevier Big Deals, Springer, Wiley, Sage and OUP


NEW A’DAM CRIS PROJECT WITH VUMC, UVA, AMC AND HVA


Required for compliance, also crucial for Green Road:

New Current Research Information System (CRIS) to replace Metis (Pure … by Elsevier!)

Integration with repository in a unified system, hosted in the cloud

Benefits for researchers include: automatically upload metadata from publisher databases (WOS, Scopus, etc.): with one click, no mistakes, always up-to-date, advanced profile pages with direct access to full text and a wide range of extras

Also important: grey literature!


WHAT CAN YOU DO ? (AS RESEARCH DIRECTOR, PROGRAMME MANAGERS)


Ask for advice on OA publishing opportunities in your field: [email protected]

Opt for a fully OA journal whenever possible

Go (also) Green allways: archive the Authors Post-print version in VUDare

Budget for OA in your grant application

Editors of non-OA journals: try to take part in the debate and to influence policy

Give priority to requests from OA journals when conducting reviews

Encourage your colleagues and PhD students, and inform them about OA options

Let the University Library help you launch your own OA journal for your field

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mailto:[email protected]


LIKE TO KNOW MORE? QUESTIONS?


General: www.openaccess.nl and www.ub.vu.nl/openaccess

VU Open Access information point: [email protected]

creative commons licence: http://creativecommons.org/choose/

OA-team UBVU:Josje Calff, Reinout Dam, Marjet Elemans, Wouter

Gerritsma, Pam Kaspers, Arjan de Rooy, Arjan Schalken, José Sterk

http://www.openaccess.nl/

http://www.ub.vu.nl/openaccess

mailto:[email protected]



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