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Open Access in theHumanities and Social SciencesA SAGE Perspective

Melissa HoldenOpen Access Development Editor

Lund – March 2014 Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DC

1. OA at SAGE

2. Open Access and the Librarian

3. The Avoidance of Double dipping


OA at SAGE


OA at SAGE: author choice

● Growing portfolio of gold OA journals • CC BY for all, with author choice for other licences

● SAGE Choice (hybrid programme)• CC BY or CC BY-NC


SAGE is Green

Compliant

Authors can deposit/archive the version of the article accepted for publication in their own institution’s repository/personal website immediately with no embargo period


Why SAGE Open?

The first HSS “mega journal”

Premier destination for quality OA

research in HSS


SAGE: SA(ra)GE(orge)SAGE was founded by Sara and

George Miller McCune in 1965 with a mission to support the dissemination of scholarly research and education

Sara’s will transfers ownership of SAGE to a charities and establishes a trust whose purpose is to maintain the company as an independent publisher for the indefinite future


Why SAGE Open?

Sara’s mission: support the dissemination of scholarly research and education • Campaign for Social Science and research

• US: oppose FIRST Act

• Nurturing interdisciplinary research• Independence = long term view• Experiment with OA and technology

• Open access publishing requires investment in back office systems


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Experiment with APCs in HSS

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SAGE Open survey: Over 70% constituted personal payments


DOAJ by subject

2,414 Social Sciences OA

journals = 16%

Only 13% levy APCs


UK Funding


US Funding if FIRST Act passes


Building a broad, engaged community: article editors and reviewers

23,770 registered reviewers

7,400 invited to review

3,572 reviewed

12,062 invited article editors

2,100 agreed article editors


The challenge:Explaining and educating about SAGE Open and OA

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Top considerations for submitting:● SAGE’s reputation● Subject fit● Quality of previously published authors or

papers● Internationality of journal

SAGE Open author survey:71% of respondents said

SAGE Open was their first choice


Citations

● Total cited SAGE Open articles 65

● SAGE Open articles cited by ISI ranked journals 23

● Total citations 112

● Citations by ranked journals 31

● Most citations of one article 10

Over 730,000 downloads to 500 papers


Experimenting with Drupal technology


Lessons Learnt

● Academic selection mechanisms different in HSS

● Intellectual property is the idea itself● Licensing - concerns over derivative use

● Immediacy not so crucial

● SAGE Open is additive - it has created a new vehicle


THE OA LIBRARIAN


Librarian OA extras

● Crucial role in disseminating OA content

● Some manage/allocate institutional/govt OA funding

● Promote researcher engagement with OA


2013 UK librarian feedbackSAGE with Jisc

● Practical challenges with OA:• How to allocate OA funding• How to record and track APCs• Researcher lack of awareness with gold OA• Advising researchers on quality OA journals

www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/apc.pdf

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/apc.pdf

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/apc.pdf


UK librarian recommendations

• Clearer guidance from funders about allocation• Better information about licences and funder

compliance• Robust APC management• Make budgeting easy with clear publishers’

policies on double dipping


Avoidance of double dipping: Fundamentally simple

What’s the fairest way? For whom?

But how?

Journal of Double

Dipping Policy

Journal of Double

Dipping Policy

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Local vs Global

Try to satisfy all groups to be fair

LOCAL UNIVERSITY

1. Individual/single subscribers

2. Big deal subscribers

Journal of Double

Dipping Policy

APC


Current SAGE statement

● 2012: <0.25% of papers were published SAGE Choice

● SAGE will not be charging subscribers for open access content in hybrid journals where the author has paid an APC

● We are working on a model to ensure fairness for the 2015 subscription year which we will be discussing with our society publishing partners prior to implementation.

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/librarians/subspricing.sp

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/librarians/subspricing.sp


Summary

● SAGE is green compliant● SAGE Open has created a new vehicle for OA

in HSS● Experimenting with OA● Librarians have a crucial OA role to play


Thank you!

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David Ross, OA Executive Publisher [email protected]

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