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Outsell media business report on Open Access observes lack of robust infrastructure for OA
According to the latest Outsell media business report “Open Access: Market Size, Share, Forecast, and Trends” the lack of infrastructure for Open Access transactions is one reason for the predicted decline of growth on the OA market. Outsell estimates that a robust infrastructure will not be in place until at least 2017: “Once open access […]
Case Study published “Management of article processing charges – challenges for libraries”
Max Planck Digital Library published a case study in the UKSG journal “Insights”. The paper describes the individual steps required in order to assume charges centrally for open access publications at the Max Planck Digital Library. Currently, there is a range of potential barriers that may emerge during this process. In order to establish more […]
Max Planck Digital Library published White Paper on Open Access Transition
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 […]
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 […]
