The whitepaper “Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access” makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access business model. The existing journals, with their well-tested functionalities, should be retained and developed to meet the demands […]
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German OpenAPC initiative releases dataset on fees paid for Open Access journal articles
Bielefeld University started to aggregate data from German universities and research organizations revealing costs per article for Open Access journal publishing. The participating institutions agreed to make their figures openly available via a GitHub under an Open Database License. Bielefeld University established a process to normalize data by using the CrossRef API and DOAJ. The […]
The Practical Side of Open Access – Building an APC Billing Infrastructure
This years’ APE Conference (Academic Publishing in Europe) is hosting session on APC billing infrastructure, moderated by Ralf Schimmer from the Max Planck Digital Library. Different perspectives from all parties engaged in the billing process will be presented. See the details of the APE conference program Conference hashtag #ape2015 Follow ESAC on twitter @ESACInitiative
Open Access Roundtable hosted by Copyright Clearance Center
On October 6th last year Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) organized a roundtable at University College London where they brought together UK institutions and publishers from both the US and UK. CCC is offering RightsLink for Open Access as an intermediary tool for accounting APCs. RightsLink currently cooperates with Aries Editorial Manager, a system used by […]
ESAC Presentation on OASPA Conference, September 17th – 19th 2014, Paris
ESAC was introduced at the 6th Conference of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) at the Paris Headquarters of UNESCO. Have a look at the slides
Jisc’s evidence to the review of the RCUK OA policy
Jisc published an independent review of the implementation of RCUK policy on OA in the UK. With regards to APC management the review states the following points (excerpts) “Any difficulties in the processes and workflows relating to APC payments to publishers … Many publishers are working with legacy, and often multiple, systems resulting in inefficiencies […]
APC Invoices
From an institutional perspective an APC invoice should enable the account administrator to understand the items that have been billed. In case of a central agreement between a publisher and an institution it is very important to provide the details corresponding with the agreement. For example, if it was agreed upon the coverage of APCs […]
Submitting Systems
“Billing starts at the moment of submission” Invoices showing incorrect or incomplete statements as well as insufficient reports very often result from shortcomings at the very beginning of the publishing process, namely the moment of paper submission. At this stage key information required for invoicing and reporting should be collected: – Who is going to […]
Submission Alert
A submission alert is a short notice sent by the publisher to the institutional account administrator indicating that a submission by an author of this institution has been made. According to this information the account administrator should be able to validate if the submission is eligible to be covered by an institution’s APC fund. Data […]
