Universities are hungry to know how much they spend on Open Access fees. This data is important to planning transformative and read and publish agreements, forming library strategy, and understanding scholarly communication on your campus. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been easy to calculate how much your university is spending on Open Access.
Learn how recent developments in data sources and tools have made this easier during this webinar. We will discuss the underlying concepts behind calculating OA article-processing fee (APC) spend, and provide you with paths to calculate the Open Access fees paid by your institution. ALCTS webinar.
1. How to Calculate OA APC Spend
for Your University
Heather Piwowar
March 4, 2020
@researchremix
heather@ourresearch.org
Hosted by ALCTS, the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services
16. How you can use this data
- negotiate better on hybrid journals (double dipping)
- inform a Read and Publish agreement
- inform a Publish and Publish (PLOS) agreement
- plan around APC funds or awards
- understand the changing landscape of scholcomm
- for research or advocacy purposes
- for being an expert on your own campus
18. Previous approaches:
- Just Gold OA https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.12092.pdf
- University accounting data https://insights.uksg.org/article/10.1629/uksg.451/
But what if you also want Hybrid (define),
and don't have accounting data?
25. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
26. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
27. Sources of OA data
- 1findr
- Scopus
- Web of Science
- Dimensions
- Unpaywall
28.
29. You’re already
using Unpaywall
if you use:
● Web of Science
● Scopus
● ProQuest Summon
● OCLC WorldCat
● EBSCO EDS
● DS Dimensions
● Lens
● etc..
34. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
35. sources of affiliation data
- where to get it
- Web of Science
- Scopus
- Dimensions
- Lens
- Microsoft Academic Graph
- standardization (GRID, ROR)
36. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
37. source of APC data
- publisher pages
- OpenAPC: https://treemaps.intact-project.org/
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39.
40. Alas, not just list price
- The actual amount paid may differ from APC list prices due
to institutional membership agreements with discounts,
eventual editor discounts and more
- "Aside from the results of individual negotiations, there may
be other forms of benefit, for example due to frequency of
publication, prepayment deals, society memberships or
editor/reviewer activities"
- currency
41. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
42. which author pays
- corresponding author
- last author
- richest author
- average of all authors
- ???
44. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
46. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of papers
48. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of OA papers
62. Creates
A model projecting costs and
fulfillment for every journal,
for the next five years, using
NCPPU as the subscription
cost-effectiveness metric.
77. We'd love it if you want to check out
the demo or subscribe,
but you can also calculate much of
this yourself,
and also just think about your open
access costs differently!
78. APC calculation steps
- Which papers
- OA
- affiliation
- How much money
- APC costs
- allocation
- Forecasting
- growth in costs
- growth in number of OA papers
79. Additional reading:
- Used same approach proposed here, for Australian and NZ
unis: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2258&context=iatul
- APC price changes
https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/11/26/apc-price-changes-2019-2018-by-journal-and-by-publisher/
- OpenAPC technical article
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2932530/2932531/439-4151-1-PB.pdf